the past four months has been really really tough on my trading strategies and I'm going to admit it has been a struggle psychologically as well hi Traders if you're new here I am Lisa Forex an algorithmic Trader and for anyone that tells you that algorithmic trading is easy because there are no emotions involved I will tell you that it is the opposite I have been going crazy over the past 4 months so let's take a look at my account here are I am on dx0 showing my lfy account which I have been showcasing on my channel for the past year and a half now so you know that this is an independently verified account I'm not manipulating you in any way like my FX book like FX blue I'm not showing you a brand new account every single week this is the one account that I've been talking about for a year and a half now and originally it did a little bit okay and then once I started taking over and using strategies I created myself you can see it did pretty well until the moment that I joined Dar X gold and after that is has just tanked it's made a pretty big loss so take a look at the strategies uh so in November I took a 6% um loss and then December I climbed back up to 2. 86% and then January February we seeing pretty big losses of about almost 4% per month which is um the extent of the amount of draw down that I am comfortable with despite these trading results I am actually quite proud of myself because over the past few months instead of going crazy starting to Middle with my system and the strategies that I have tested over so long I am proud of myself because I stuck to my trading plan and even though my psychology during the past few months has been crazy and super stressful uh what I've done in instead of going in and meddling with my trading plan I went and spent that extra effort that extra time to learn best practices in algorithmic trading really really testing my system trying to find different diverse strategies here is the simulated trading and testing that I've been working with for the past year and a half I've recently made some updates to this so instead of just using the express generator tool to simulate my testing results I have combined it with another tool called EA Studio to get a more accurate details in the equity curve and while at a glance the overall Equity curve does look generally good if you really really dive deeper into the analytics there is a pretty long period of draw down here I've highlighted a length of 7 months of draw down here you see 4 months of draw down and currently we're in about a 5 6 month period of draw down and what I haven't shown here is the makeup of this particular portfolio so this consists of about five to seven different strategies mostly heavy on the Japanese Yen pair so over the past year and a half I've known about the flaws in this system it is way too heavy on the Japanese Yen pairs but honestly I've spent the past eight months a year trying to find different currencies that work trying to find different strategies that work and if you're unfamiliar with expert advisor Studio this is a web- based tool that will create strategies for you fully automatically so here I've got it loaded and you might think to yourself it looks pretty straightforward you just press start and it starts generating profitable strategies for you uh not really so if I click the start button you'll see straight away it's already starting to generate a whole bunch of strategies uh the first one is not going to be the best but give it a few minutes and you'll start seeing some really promising strategies the equity curve starts to get better and better we've already got 50 strategies after like 30 seconds of me talking so let's take a look at them so this one here um it's going to hit resolve cor correlations this top one here looks pretty good does it um it's trading on data up to today the 24th of February 2025 the problem with um this software and a lot of other software that generates strategies is that these potentially are over optimized which means back testing you'll see fantastic beautiful Equity curves but when you take the strategy and put on an actual Live account then the equity curve just starts to tank and you start losing lots and lots of money so the real challenge here as an algorithmic Trader is to develop a robust process that will get you actual good results in live trading in my personal workflow I have a thing called simulated trading where I generate strategies using a whole bunch of data so see this vertical line right here this is the point where I stop using the data to generate and optimize my strategy with and then I use it live for simulate live trading from this period onwards from the 1st of January 2022 and for the Japanese Yen pairs they all look pretty good after this vertical line however for everything else that I have tested I have t tested different currency pairs I've tested gold I've tested indices everything after this vertical line it just tanks and I've been struggling with this concept for about the past 8 month a year I've been testing so many different things doing so much research and after a year I have finally cracked it I have finally found some settings some tweaks I made to my workflow which seems to work on multiple currency pairs after that straight vertical line I will be sharing the changes I made to the workflow in the building a weing algo trading portfolio video series so I've gone and updated the portfolio running on my lfy account so this one no longer just has Japanese and pairs now it has two Japanese Yen Pairs and two Swiss frank Pairs and with more testing I am hoping to build this portfolio up to be much bigger and to be much more balance across multiple currency pairs across indices and gold and across multiple time frames and I'm hoping my lfy account will slowly recover from this 4month draw down and I know unfortunately at this point it doesn't look that great because you see such a huge draw down in this account but in let's say 3 to 5 years time this will just be a tiny blip in the big scheme of things the thing with down X zero is that because you have the ability to reset a lot of people go and reset their accounts every few months because they to have that perfect Equity curve but in real trading that perfect Equity curve doesn't exist it only exists when you zoom out but in the short term you will see draw down periods so here on the down x0 front page you can see the top four Traders let's take a look at one of them at random so I want to point out the draw down periods that they have I'm tired of looking at TH all the time so let's take a look at the second place person JTL this is the second best Trader on the platform as voted for by the investors who put their money behind this Trader up to $3. 2 million let's take a look at their performance so they are participating in dnia gold and uh currently this month they are down 5.
52% and over the past 6 months they've returned netive 11. 68% which honestly makes me feel so much better as a Trader um their long-term track record looks pretty good they have been going sideways for a little bit recently and the past few months their Equity curve is actually very similar to mine so if I scroll down a little bit more you can see in Feb they lost 5. 52% in December they lost 3.
