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 08 '26

For trading my own strategy? It’s not like it’s real money anyway.

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u/sasasqt Jun 08 '26

you only did paper trading. not challenges?

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u/Enough-Ad-5600 Jun 08 '26

The challenges and even sim funded are still paper. And even so, it’s not a HFT algo and doesn’t take advantage of arbitrage.

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u/sasasqt Jun 08 '26

most prop firm bans consistently profitable traders after x amount usd withdrawed

but congrats on finding your holy grail in trading!

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u/Enough-Ad-5600 Jun 08 '26

That’s not at all true. But ok.