Clean 50-point move caught LIVE this morning. đŽââ ïž
Market gave the setup, stayed patient, executed the plan, and let momentum do the work.
Small losses. Bigger winners. Thatâs the game.
I've been working on a backtester for over a year now (along with a trading platform).
I take actual live trades and then I run the same algo to try to get the backtester close as possible.
How close is good enough?
here you can see a sample of actual vs backtesting and the delta.
The times are identical for entries and exits with only some being slightly off.
Don't focus on the PNL results just the times, PNL per trade.
How close is close enough?
(This is NQ futures btw)
I haven't seen any truly good backtesters so I built a system to automate the trading and also use the exact same framework to backtest.
Im not using bid/ask only last prices but the backtester CAN use bid and ask and can adjust slippage but all other variations doing using those or some other configuration hasn't yielded better results so far.
Lucid flagged my accounts for a âself-hedgeâ and wiped the profits. I was copy-trading the same strategy across accounts in the same direction, not taking opposing positions.
I checked everything:
My own logs didnât show any opposing positions. I will show evrything below. I am hiding nothing, I have already posted about this and some people blamed Tradecopia, but it is 100% an error from Lucid.
Tradecopia reviewed the order logs and found no discrepancies. This is their response below.
My Tradovate logs also didnât show the kind of hedge Lucid claimed.
I showed all of this to Lucid in screenshots and they did NOTHING.
Whatâs crazy is theyâre still calling it hedging and saying thereâs no real appeal. So even if you can show you werenât hedging, it apparently doesnât matter once their system flags you.
If you use Lucid with multiple accounts or a copier, be extremely careful. Their hedging detection system is automated and cant be over turned or reviewed, and their definition of âhedgingâ seems way broader than most traders would expect.
Iâm posting this as a warning so other traders donât get blindsided the way I did.
Thousands entered, and I finished in Top 10%
Today Iâm averaging $40,000 pnl daily and just want
some advice when you make it to the top of the food chain
Iâve been at this long enough to have the scars, but if Iâm being completely honest, the hardest battle isn't with the charts or the newsâit's with the person in the mirror. Even now, my biggest hurdle is Bias, and itâs a shapeshifter.
It hits me in three specific ways that I still have to fight off every single session:
Iâve lost count of how many times Iâve stared at a vertical candle and thought, "There is no physical way it can possibly go higher/lower from here." I start looking for reasons why the move is "overextended" instead of just accepting that the trend is boss. The market has a way of making "impossible" moves look easy while Iâm sitting there in disbelief.
Iâll get so hyper-focused on a micro-move that I develop a short-term bias that completely contradicts the higher timeframe. Iâll convince myself a 40-50 point retracement is a total reversal, ignoring the fact that the higher time frame is in a massive breakout. I get "zoom-in" syndrome, and it usually ends with me being on the wrong side of the real move.
Letâs be real: I have never successfully caught the exact top or the exact bottom. Not once in my career (+20 years). And yet, the temptation to be a "hero" and call the turn is always there. Every time I try to catch the falling knife or sell the absolute peak, I just end up becoming exit liquidity for the smart money.
The Hard Truth: The "middle" of the move is where the money is, but my bias wants the glory of the edges. Admitting that my opinion on where price should go is worthless was the most expensive lesson I ever learned.
I have wrote too many posts over the years, I have written a book....THE BOTTOM LINE IS ONE AND ONLY - Trend is your friend, system is non-negotiable!
