Hassan | SwiftCap EAs

Been quiet on here for too long. Time to change that. I'm Hassan. I build MT5 Expert Advisors that automate forex trading. Started because I was tired of sitting at a screen all day manually trading. Spent months learning MQL coding, backtesting strategies, blowing test accounts. Now I have EAs with 50+ copies sold on MQL5, a Discord community, and prop firm accounts running my own algos. Going forward I'm posting: - Real EA performance. No cherry picking. - Behind the scenes of building & improving algos - My 100K prop firm challenge running on my own EA - Honest takes on the trading space No fluff. No Lamborghinis. Just systems, results and the real journey. If that's your thing - follow along: linktr.ee/swiftcapeas #ForexTrading #AlgoTrading #ExpertAdvisor

@savedbyfx @MyForexFunds

What is the best forex prop firm? Feel like the industry quietly stopped growing.

@TanzelAhmed @fnfutures They are gonna move you to live after seeing your numbers.

What is the highest single payout record in FundedNext Futures? Does anyone know? I am going to break the all time record for the highest single payout in a futures prop firm at @fnfutures I’m up $270K on Day 2 with my 5×$50K Rapid Accounts. (Each account is sitiing at $54000 in profit)💀 Day 1: Made $27K Day 2: Made $27K Now I need $60K in total profit to meet the 40% consistency requirement. Then I can request my first capped payout of $7,500. After the 5 payouts, I can withdraw all this profits. It is going to become the largest single payout ever from a Future prop firm. InshaAllah 🤍 @fnfutures @Flynnn_FN Loading……🤍

@itsnataliapl Solid stuff, they will start compounding real soon. What was the amount spent in purchasing the accounts in these 2 yrs?

I have been trading for 2 years now. I received 4 payouts in total from CFD firms totalling at 12,067 $ Do you think it’s a fast progress or slow progress? I think sometimes I am a bit harsh on myself Gotta be grateful for not giving up #propfirmtrading #tradingjourney

@dmartin_trading Thank you bro. Appreciated🙏

@swiftcapeas Congrats! 👏

3 months ago I started the $100K 2 Step FundingPips Challenge using my automated trading system and documented every week right here on X. Today — PASSED. ✅ Now the real challenge begins - keeping the funded account for as long as possible.

@dmartin_trading This one trades more often, its intra-day and a mix of time and price based breakouts.

@swiftcapeas Nice! I have a range breakout but it was flat in June

I track 14 Darwinex traders. I use them as my performance benchmark. In June their cumulative returns were -3.60%... The average return was -0.26%. Conclusion? June was a tough month

@EthanTrades13 Interesting, Gold was a losing month for you. Are you predominantly long on gold? Because it had some good downside movement throughout the month.

Month 4 complete. June: +1.64% YTD: +20.86%. • 6 sleeves live (5 green, 1 red) • Gold was the only losing sleeve • Added 3 new sleeves for July • Trades copied across 8 prop firms + 1 live account One of the biggest advantages of prop firms is horizontal scaling📈

@fundingpips Waiting for my master account to be issued.

A new day means new opportunities. Trade your plan and stay disciplined.

@dmartin_trading Yup, Same one im using on FundingPips.

@swiftcapeas This is your range breakout?

@dmartin_trading I think correlation to some extent will always be there. When market is in certain regime, almost all of the strategies might fail. Even better different traders, results would be similar during certain market conditions like we saw this April.

Month 3 of Live Algo Trading is completed. I had my first red month on one of my accounts and it was a big hit. This month taught me a lot. Returns: FTMO 100K: -2.2% FTMO 10K: +0.45% E8 200K: +0.41% I did a full write up of the main takeaways this month which are on the topic of: Proper Correlation Analysis in Portfolio Construction and The Asymmetric Nature of Markets and it's impact on strategy development & overfitting risks. The full details on my performance is here: denelio.com/journey/jun-29… Here's the TL;DR for my June: My FTMO 100K account took the biggest hit, finishing -2.4%, while my FTMO 10K and E8 200K finished slightly positive at 0.45% and 0.41%. The main issue on the 100K was correlation risk. My FTMO 100K trades 5 Nasdaq strategies. I thought these strategies were diversified enough, but June exposed that they were far more connected than I realized. When Nasdaq had clean trends in May, that correlation worked in my favor so I overlooked it. In June however, when Nasdaq was more choppy, the same correlation amplified the downside. After deeper analysis, I rebuilt my portfolios with a stricter focus on keeping strategy correlation (weekly bucket) below roughly 0.20, which I find is a good rule of thumb. This is used alongside a rolling correlation analysis. The second major takeaway was that markets are not symmetric. My long strategies continued to show strength, but the short side performed terribly live and failed on new 2008–2017 OOS data I got access to. This made it clear that I had overfit the short side by assuming the same logic that works long should also work short. I have now separated my long/short strategies by removing the overfitted short side. In July, the focus will be on improving portfolio weaknesses by adding: One more long only index breakout, two Long only mean reversion and later developing proper short only strategies.

@kieran__duff If using broker server time, broker auto adjust the time and it parameters are not impacted by the DST?

If your strategy has a session or time-of-day filter, check what your data does on the daylight-savings changeovers. The broker's server time can shift relative to the actual market session twice a year, and your "London open" filter is suddenly firing an hour off for half the year. Either leave the parameters open to adjust or add a DST filter within the code to adjust automatically.

@Ashuragamez Start with YouTube for basic tutorials, and play around with ai for coding. Establish a framework on how to generate and test the strategies and start with simple ideas like breakout strategies.

@swiftcapeas How did you start

Week 7 of 100k Phase II FundingPips Challenge. Fully Automated. 3.3% for the week. 4.2% profit overall. After 3 months of starting this challenge, we are finally getting closer to passing the challenge. Fully automated disciplined trading at play.

@dmartin_trading Nicely put!

The best retail trader I have ever seen is this guy right here: SYO, the #1 trader on Darwinex. He has a 9 year track record and around $16M in investor capital. And yet… he sells a course. A lot of people assume that if a trader sells a course, it means they cannot trade well enough to make money from trading. In this case, that argument clearly does not hold up. I have yet to see another retail trader come close to his performance. But I think the reason he sells a course can be seen in his track record itself. When you analyze his drawdowns, he went through several. The biggest ones lasting 269 days, 180 days and 187 days. Three separate times, he went more than 6 months without making new money from trading. Now imagine trading is your main source of income. You are doing everything correctly. Following your system. Managing risk. Staying disciplined. And still, for over 6 months, no new income comes in. Now add real life on top of that. Rent. Bills. Family. Responsibilities. Unexpected expenses. You are in a drawdown, making no money, but life keeps charging you every month. I do not care how experienced or mentally strong you are. That will take a serious toll on you. Having another source of income changes everything. Whether it is a course, mentorship, software, a trading service or something else, stable income outside of trading can reduce the psychological pressure massively. And I think this is one of the main reasons so many profitable traders eventually offer trading related services. Yes, some genuinely want to teach and help others. But I think for many, the bigger reason is much simpler: Trading income is irregular. Even when you are very good, you can go months without making money. So building another income stream is not always a sign that someone cannot trade. Sometimes it is a sign that they understand the reality of trading better than most. This is just my opinion, but it answers something I always wondered: Why do so many profitable traders eventually sell something? I think this is the reason.

@dmartin_trading @Pedroisquiet @fundingpips Seems like they have updated it recently. They now require source code for verification. None of this was there when i signed up. Seems like every firm is trying to get rid of automated traders.

@swiftcapeas @Pedroisquiet @fundingpips I see a few algo traders talking about this. They are looking to grt rid of them

Clear Rules are HERE! will load up @fundingpips accounts this weekend. Currenly sitting at around $53k payouts with them.

@dmartin_trading Which robustness checks did this strategy fail to pass?

After doing a few of crosschecks, this strategy does not meet my criteria for being robust. A lot of people recommend Connor's RSI as a good mean reversion strategy but it does not pass all my checks despite being profitable. My quest on finding a mean reversion strategy continues. Maybe I need to be less rigorous on how robust I expect Mean Reversion strategies should be. I can find robust and profitable breakout and trend following strategies with my eyes closed but I cannot develop a solid MR strategy even after months of trying. Do robust mean reversion strategies exist less or is it just a skill issue?

@danbuck02 @fundingpips Don't use a stop loss😀

Shout out @fundingpips

@PJtrades_NQ Math works but not the trading

Y'all don't realize how good you have it with prop firms. Do the math. $350 trade x 20 accounts = $7000 Copy trading is a money printer IF you actually know how to trade.