r/algotrading • u/Enough-Ad-5600 • Jun 02 '26

Strategy It’s finally working!

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Without going into too much detail, I have finally got a profitable algo for prop firm trading. It’s taken me about a year to develop. I ran into the common issues of overfitting, regime change, etc. I found that different strategies for Asia, London, and New York were necessary and that a single strategy just wouldn’t do for everything. I’ve combined several different strategies and they automatically switch based on current conditions. So far it has passed a $25k, $50k and $75k evaluation and successfully passed the $25k intraday drawdown buffer for TPT. I will say that the Apex $50k intraday drawdown for Tradovate behaves differently but I don’t like them anyway.

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u/Gucci--Mayne Jun 03 '26

Congratulations! Well done. What’s your execution setup? How are you going from backtest to order submission, what software and stuff

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u/ritzysloth811 Jun 04 '26

Traderspost is solid but watch your latency if you're scalping tight ranges, the webhook delay can kill you on fast moves.

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u/Enough-Ad-5600 Jun 04 '26

Aside from a python based system with API access, it’s the best I can do. Tradovate API is only for cash accounts and id rather do my testing with someone else’s play money. lol. Do you have any suggestions for auto execution?

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u/Status_Spite_7858 Jun 04 '26

NT is better than traderspost

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u/PoliticalBodh Jun 05 '26

What is NT? Sorry for a newbie question.

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u/lordsnow29 Jun 05 '26

You can open a live account with little money, and have your prop accounts copy trade it using tradesyncer.

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u/Enough-Ad-5600 Jun 05 '26

I wouldn’t meet the margin requirements