Daily Log
Fixing the recovery Ladder: A Two-Second Losing Trade Told Me Everything
One of my losing trades lasted two seconds and cost $7.60 — the biggest loss in the account. It wasn’t bad luck; it was a bug in one line of code. Here’s the full autopsy of 407 trades.
The 100% Win Rate That Blows Accounts
A 100% win rate looks like the holy grail — but I ran a replay proving it’s the most dangerous number in trading. Here’s how “never close a loser” manufactures a perfect record that blows real accounts.
I Built My Own Trading Scanner — Here’s Why (and What’s Still Broken)
Frustrated by indicators that repaint, spam signals, and can’t alert Telegram, I built my own confluence scanner for gold and crypto. An honest early look — including what works, what’s still in testing, and where I think it really belongs.
Maverick Scalper: +$131 on Demo — But One Trade Made It All
My new Maverick Scalper EA finished two weeks on demo at +$131 with a 1.76 profit factor. Then I pulled the trades apart and found a single trade carrying the entire profit. Here’s the honest analysis.
BTC ATM Machine: 3 Months From Idea to Earning (Honestly)
My BTC ATM Machine grid EA earns steadily on demo after 3 months of work — and I show the real floating drawdown behind every profit. Honest grid trading.
My EA Made $87,000. It Still Almost Died Five Times!
I ran four real trading disasters back through my rebuilt grid EA. The stress tests capped ~$8,000 of losses to ~$355 — and found three bugs on the way.
TrendLab Fusion: What 10,328 Trades Taught Me About Grid EAs
This one is different from my usual daily log. Instead of a fresh result, I built TrendLab Fusion v1.1 by going back through 10,328 real closed trades from two of my grid EAs — including the exact ladders that blew an account — to find out precisely what worked, what killed the accounts, and how […]
RSI Mean Reversion 2: +6.6% on Demo, 4.25% Drawdown
Today’s EA is RSI Mean Reversion 2 — a rebuild born from a string of earlier versions that kept losing money. After months of reworking the logic, the first impression is finally promising: +6.6% on demo with a small 4.25% drawdown. It’s far too early to call it stable, and I’ll explain exactly why — […]
McQuack Scalper 2.5: Small Profits, Tiny 1.55% Drawdown
After testing and failing with version after version, I finally have something worth showing: McQuack Scalper 2.5 has put together about a month of small, stable profits on demo. I’m not here to brag — I’m here to be honest that this came after a long, grinding process of building and breaking dozens of EAs. […]
Passive Income Trend: $1K → $2,377 (Live Drawdown Shown)
Today I’m showing you my own EA — Passive Income Trend — live on demo, and I’m showing it to you while it’s sitting in an open drawdown right now. The account is up from $1,000 to $2,377, but I’m not going to hide the −$92 of open positions currently in the red. That real-time […]