u/br-hm

Since a year I’ve been into algo trading and have a collection of strategies, but since trading funded accounts I have to be extremely cautious of my risk. Many people always say to risk a certain fixed % per trade, but it doesn’t make sense to me.

Some strategies have less drawdown than others, some better RF or Sharpe. How do you ‘optimize’ your strategy allocation when trading multiple different EA’s on a single account?

Thinking of building out a couple of free trading calculators (risk of ruin, position sizing, margin, that kind of thing) and had a couple people mention they’d want it as a browser extension instead so they don’t have to leave their broker/TradingView tab to check numbers.

Before I put real time into it: is that something you’d genuinely use, or is tab-switching not actually the friction I think it is? Curious what would make it worth it for you specifically, if anything. Any feedback is appreciated

I have around 6 years of trading experience, the first 4 very rough, also letting trading go for a while. Then through a friend I discovered algo trading. It got me into creating strategies and backtesting them etc.

I have concluded for myself, after trying out many things, that it’s extremely hard to find a strategy that works enough of the time to be longterm profitable. Ofcourse there’s the basic index strategies but still most individual strategies can go through very long drawdown periods, and even the highly profitable ones can have a long losing streak.

On social media there’s a lot of dreams being sold: “follow this one strategy”, “do what i do and you’ll win” etc etc. It simply doesn’t work. I now have made 20 strategies of which 13 are running on a single account and still there’s big drawdown periods.

How would anyone ever survive this longterm trading only a single strategy manually? Am I just bad at making strategies? Do I need to lower my expectations?

I’m currently building a couple of tools for traders, first up is a free calculator that shows your % chance of blowing up your account at different risk levels, mainly because social media is inflated with wrong information.. Been trading myself for a while and kept wishing something like this existed. I’m looking for a handful of people willing to try it when it’s ready and tell me honestly what’s wrong with it.

I just started on my first SaaS project as a solo founder and I’m loving the ‘figuring it all out’ phase, like finding communities and just building the product, but I romanticize the idea of launching the perfect product and people immediately getting it. I know reality will most likely be different and I want to be prepared as well as possible.

How did your first launch go, either good or bad? If it went good, what did you do to make it work, and if it went bad, what did you learn from it?

Since recently I’m working on building some small tools meant for retail traders. I’ve never seen myself as someone who sells something, but I love building and making things. I’m taking on a small project of building a SaaS tool but would love advice on distribution and how to get proper feedback on a product, perhaps a roadmap of people who’ve experienced the ups and downs..