Strategy
momentum strategy live - first week results
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went live with momentum strategy monday.
ran it alongside mean reversion all week.
first week results in.
strategy recap # mean reversion (existing): trade in ranging markets, high win rate, small consistent wins
testing momentum overlay - early results promising
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been running mean reversion strategies for 4 months.
works well. 87% win rate in july.
but: only trades when price reverts.
misses trending moves.
the idea # add momentum overlay to existing system.
vol detection system is live
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went live with vol regime detection friday morning.
first real test today.
what happened # saturday market (crypto):
looking ahead to june
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may is wrapped. planning june now.
what i’m carrying forward # strategies:
premium selling (working) mean reversion v2 (needs more testing) vol regime detection (deploying monday) risk management:
building volatility regime detection
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need to stop trading when volatility spikes. building detection system.
the problem # this week VIX spiked 18% in 2 days. my strategies got stopped out twice.
checking my backtests for overfitting
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worried my strategies are overfit to historical data. spent today testing for it. been reading NexusFi backtesting threads about this exact problem.
the problem # my backtests look great:
correlation risk - learned the hard way
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lost $1,400 yesterday because i didn’t track correlation between my positions. dumb mistake.
what happened # may 10, 2pm: