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2025 officially in the books with a 27% YTD gain we beat $SPX by 10% in the first year of systematic trading/Investing including the past 3 months of chop/dd 2026 will be about going live with intraday strategies

@JulianFXG Will do!

@BostonRobTrades Congrats man, keep going. Love the consistency and transparency. We definitely need more of this on here, way too much noise in the trading space. Keep sharing 👍

April Trading Recap: Milestone hit! Darwinex Hit 100k aum & our first private investor woohoo +$41.5K - PAZB: +0.45% in April Topstep Massive comeback despite all the self inflicted mistakes I made in March, now back to over $2,000 profit +$1100 in April on 150k Fidelity Retirement accounts running systematic etf strategies are both back to 100% deployed and is finally starting to break out of the breakeven chop of the past 6 months (chart got messed up when I added funds) +2.51% Goal remains the same for 2026. - Continue to scale funding - Earn enough per month to pay bills - continue to make posts to help traders

@dmartin_nq thank you, more fun every day

@BostonRobTrades Congrats man!

@vicallyncap Thank you, on my way to scaling to your level 🤝

@BostonRobTrades Congrats on your first private investor🥇

Yeah dude I thought that the trading bridge was going to be the easy part haha. In March I missed out on a lot of profit and took a few big losses due to my bridge breaking while I was traveling. Safe to say that I rebuilt it from the ground up and now has been about a month of no errors

@BostonRobTrades Verified public track record + actual automation is the right combo. The part most people underestimate is ops: a 24/7 server is only useful if failure modes are logged, recoverable, and boring.

STS = Boston Rob's Solo Fund Verified on Darwin (PAZB) and Topstep 6 Intraday strategies combined into 1 portfolio All strategies built and verified using AI Agents Built and connected a 24/7 Trading Server that executes all my trades, I can ssh into anytime to control or monitor My mission now is to scale up funding and increase monthly income from prop firms: - Portfolio on avg earns $1,000/m per account. -Darwin earns me $100/m with 60k in allocations - Built $3,000 cushion on topstep in 3 months, will make withdrawals of anything over that cushion - Earn over 100k in allocations before reaching gold status on Darwinex If you are a recent follower , this account is for documenting my progress over time and sharing info that can help other beginners out there find profitability. My goal is to build up enough funding that I can pay all my bills so that my entire 9-5 check goes to savings & Investing into my retirement account (which is ran by strategies too). I will check in again May 1'st to post April's exciting stats - Back to the lab!

@pawgmaxi US can have an account but I can’t invest in other Darwin’s. No clue why that is

@BostonRobTrades Elite. I didn't know Darwin was available to US residents

I will make a post about this since Im asked a lot. Of course theres so much nuance to this but I'd say the high level aspects are: 1. You need access to Free or Cheap AI, 15+ years of price data, and a tradingview account 2. Learn the basics about trending and mean reversion strategies and how to predict those market conditions using math 3. Read all you can from people who have done this for a long time and have a public track record of profitability 4. Configure backtests to be harder than the live markets so that when you find something with potential you can already filter out weak signals 5. Once you find a profitable strategy using AI covert it to another backtesting engine language like pine script or mt5 or ninja trader and then verify if your strategy also works on that platform too 6. Try to break it with parameter sensitivity tests, overfit, no look ahead bias, walk forward, etc 7. Finally test it on prop firms or demo for at least a few months before putting real money behind it If you get to this step then you need to connect to a brokerage via api for execution As you can see this is a lot of work and tons of risks and challenges so that’s why I say that unless you love the game don’t waste your time

@BostonRobTrades As a neophyte, what are the best steps to designing, testing, and implementing my own system like this?

@TheWolf534 yessir! heres the link if you or anyone else wants to check it darwinexzero.com/darwin/PAZB/pe…

@BostonRobTrades nice man all on NQ? Yep mean reversion will really help smooth out that curve

@TheWolf534 thank you sir, rn 5 of the 6 on Darwin The overnight strat needs some work then it will be all 6 then I will be adding Mean Reversion strats

@BostonRobTrades Nice man how many strategies are you running on your darwin?

@mispy101 Yes i do trade it on micros for Topstep and exactly its just a risk i accept but I have a few work arounds: - multiple prop firm accounts some will be backups - over time I'll add strats that decrease max DD Overall prop firms r just too restrictive, hard to beat them.

@BostonRobTrades Even scaled down to minis (assuming /10), that's quite a hefty drawdown to run on a topstep account. Do you just accept the possibility of it being blown as a rare enough occurrence it's worth the risk? (not a critique, just an issue I struggle with myself)

@fin_constructor Yep % sizing outperforms (+2300% retrun) 1-3 sizing underperforms (+300% return) 1 of 6 strats. portfolio overall outperforms Buy & Hold (+900%+)

@BostonRobTrades Did you compare it to a simple buy and hold QQQ?

Market Open Trend Strategy - Long Only Nasdaq As promised ... here is my best strategy, It's the most simple yet effective strategy I run and is a framework traders can build off of! It's based on the stat that over time the markets trend upwards. We capture those trends by getting in at the open then outperform by using adaptive position sizing and filtering out bad environments. We get in early then before the markets trend then let our winners ride. Momentum + Vwap + Sizing = Edge 1. Time: 9:30 Market Open Markets trend over time so we want to get in as early as possible to give our positions as much time as possible to be able to participate in any trends. I personally even wait for the end of the opening range to get in once the chaos has settled. Both work 2. Entry: Time & Filter Enter at market open IF - Price is above yesterdays open (Simple momentum filter) - Price is above vwap (Anchor at 18:00 session open) 3. Position Size: VWAP At entry measure how close price is to vwap measured in % then scale accordingly. Ex: 1% = min size 0.5% = med size 0.25% = max size 4. Exit: Time or Price Only close 1 of 2 ways. - Market close at 4 - 5m close below vwap 5. Bonus: % scaling IF you are using your own account and not trading via prop firms then I have yet another way you can look into boosting your performance... % sizing instead of Contract sizing. Instead of a base of 1 contract and max of 3, try using a base of 33% and a max of 100% of your account. I showed the crazy difference due to compounding gains down below. same strat, same rules, just using % instead of fixed amount. Below is the 15 year NQ backtest with cost/slippage included. I am so comfortable with dropping my strategies because these seem to be the lowest hanging fruit and most robust concepts out there. Plus I struggled for years to find profitable strategies and always wished that someone would help me out and just explain a simple one to help. Going forward I will continue to create posts like these, how I verify strats, and will also be getting into other parts of the process / biz. Thank you for all the engagement in my last few posts, I have really enjoyed connecting with the community! Question for the community: - Is it overfitting to a dataset by only trading a strategy long instead of L/S? even when both L & S are profitable? - Is it overfitting to wait for the market open to play out then automatically enter say 15m into market open instead of at the exact open to avoid volatility? my testing says its ok but would love to hear from someone who has more experience than me. #NQ #Algotrading

@HedgeBlade Well thank you sir 🤝

@BostonRobTrades Good stuff, you get a follow!

@ProbableChris Great, 1. 9:30 open but I think 18:00 works too 2. almost, min = 1 contract It doesnt have to be these exact % thresholds either, more of a concept than specific instruction. A few people were able to get some good results already, hopefully you are next

Was replicating this out of curiosity, and have two questions: Price is above yesterdays open ...does this refer to 1800 open or 930 open? For the VWAP sizing: Ex: 1% = min size 0.5% = med size 0.25% = max size ... does this mean >= 1% (1 contract) 0.5% to <1% (2 contracts) 0.25% to <0.5% (3 contracts) 0 to 0.25% no trade

@n_c_neel Do you have a tradingview account? You could have ai throw u together a pine script. Someone invite comments was already able to recreate it

@BostonRobTrades Thanks @BostonRobTrades. I would love to test this using historical data.

@MiguelC08729232 My testing has shown the 15m as most effective but 30m and 60m work too

@BostonRobTrades Thanks for sharing!! What sort of opening opening range do you wait for until entering? 60m?

@durairaj_md 9:30 but i believe 1800 would work as well!

@BostonRobTrades Yesterday open meaning at 9:30 est or 18:00 est?

@Tony_tradingk Thanks and yes I have but since my investing strategies r all on the weekly to monthly timeframe so I’m using this portfolio for day trades I’ll be making posts about my investing strategies too

@BostonRobTrades This is good, but have you considered moving to weekly? When it comes to Trend Trading, the idea is to try and Hold those long trends for as long as possible, rather than opening new trades everyday.

@thesullytyler Thank you sir 🤝

@BostonRobTrades Love to find strategy that works at direct open

@GanseKyle Thanks man. Easier to make more when you’re not constrained by prop rules

@BostonRobTrades This very cool! I like the using entire capital % switch for the personal account.