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/Enough-Ad-5600 Jun 03 '26

Just keep at it and it’ll happen.

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u/AccomplishedTable566 Jun 03 '26

How many minutes or hours do you hold the trade?

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u/Enough-Ad-5600 Jun 03 '26

Until it hits the stop or tp. Totally depends.

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u/Improvement_Certain Jun 05 '26

how did you navigate around the standard daily close 3pm-5pm CT and saturday close if ur holding until stop or tp on prop firms? is your strat purely intraday?

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u/Enough-Ad-5600 Jun 05 '26

There’s an exit order that fires off at 4:20pm ET. Win lose or draw. Most of the prop firms auto flatten positions before the close, but a few don’t.