Don't waste your time trying to teach these people anything.
Now you know how an adult orangutan must feel when they are trying to teach their babies how to peel their first banana.
Pride always comes before destruction.... -Proverbs 16:18
- #1,241
- Oct 22, 2025 9:22pm Oct 22, 2025 9:22pm
- Joined Aug 2013 | Status: Trader | 4,899 Posts
Pride always comes before destruction.... -Proverbs 16:18
- #1,246
- Oct 23, 2025 1:06am Oct 23, 2025 1:06am
- Joined Aug 2018 | Status: Trader | 7,847 Posts
Hey guys.
I just had an eureka moment.
Holy crap...it hit me like a rock.
I was thinking what am I doing better in my newest accounts that I wasn't doing in my old -now disposed of- accounts?
Then it hit me. I have been gradually towards favouring methods, systems ways whatever that would reduce my risk of hitting a hard and/or prolonged dd period.
That is what I am doing in my 2.0 approach to newest Darwinex accts.
And maybe it is working?
Lol. Duh
The risk reduction efforts have been working....
But you know ; so far so good'
I have been naturally pushed towards lower risk trading by trying to fit in the freaking cogs of Darwinex.
It's like the RE's behaviour forces me to comply in ways that pleases it and keeps it relatively pleased.
It's fkg Eureka moment to me because I was doing it without realising that I was looking for compliance the RE on the side of doing my own bla bla trading methods. A voice tells me just keep doing what ur doing.
I need to go for a jog rn.
I just had an eureka moment.
Holy crap...it hit me like a rock.
I was thinking what am I doing better in my newest accounts that I wasn't doing in my old -now disposed of- accounts?
Then it hit me. I have been gradually towards favouring methods, systems ways whatever that would reduce my risk of hitting a hard and/or prolonged dd period.
That is what I am doing in my 2.0 approach to newest Darwinex accts.
And maybe it is working?
Lol. Duh
The risk reduction efforts have been working....
But you know ; so far so good'
I have been naturally pushed towards lower risk trading by trying to fit in the freaking cogs of Darwinex.
It's like the RE's behaviour forces me to comply in ways that pleases it and keeps it relatively pleased.
It's fkg Eureka moment to me because I was doing it without realising that I was looking for compliance the RE on the side of doing my own bla bla trading methods. A voice tells me just keep doing what ur doing.
I need to go for a jog rn.
- #1,247
- Oct 23, 2025 1:57am Oct 23, 2025 1:57am
- Joined Aug 2018 | Status: Trader | 7,847 Posts
It's a nice time of the year. 
- #1,249
- Edited 5:28am Oct 23, 2025 5:16am | Edited 5:28am
- Joined May 2016 | Status: Trader | 6,306 Posts
{quote} Ok let's talk about the statement in bold. I got a good example that you can better than anyone else relate to. Your oldest account...I don't have it in front of me but once near the beginning mb 1/3 or 1/4 in you had a kind of big tilt. I forget how much but it didn't look good. Practically next day or a couple days later your dd instantly recovered and you hit zero line and you were once again ATH. Then you I think geared it down and went on quick forays away from 0 line and back...you know..the good stuff that keeps the ATH up. So, point...
Gonna drop a little gold nugget here.......you can also DCA with a different Darwin...the two immediate benefits are not punishing your RE, but also helps with un-correlation. I do this with the props as well, as I'm sure some savvy prop traders do as well. Just closed two gold trades in 2 different Darwins with two different profits.
I also trade small enough overall as to not impact the multiplier, which is why I can add without being impacted.
Real world example in my futures Darwin, the second one below, I was long YM on 10/10, I believe the DOW dropped 1300 points that day.....I wasn't holding 1300 points of DD, but it was a bad trade for sure (Trump got me this time, lol) but I had a buy limit 300 points below the price AT 4:00 when the markets close....thought process, if it gaps up over the weekend, my trade is good, if it gaps down, I'm getting a great price to average down and salvage this position....market dropped 300 points after market and triggered it at like 4:45 on a Friday....fortunately the market gapped like 550 on open Sunday.....I closed that one and held the original.
I bring that up to demonstrate the fact that because I only trade 2 minis on a $1,000,000 account, holding 4 over the weekend didn't impact my VAR as you can see in the 2nd one below. That multiplier actually popped to 2.27 this week.
Here are three VARs from first opened Darwinex to last, the middle one is the futures with the highest multiplier (obviously). Simple formula, I think, is take the target VAR of 6.5 and divide by your VAR and you should get (close to) your multiplier.
You will also notice, the first Darwin and the March/April you were referring to, VAR spiked and risk engine suffered. However, still had 4 consecutive months of allocations after that.
You can also noticed, as I believe I posted in real time, past few months on that first Darwin, VAR is spiking again as I was battling with holding some gold trades way too long and I believe it was some AUD as well.
Another observation as I am looking myself at the 3 VARs, it looks like I have learned a thing or two from the first one (very volitile VAR)
- #1,250
- Oct 23, 2025 7:16am Oct 23, 2025 7:16am
- Joined Nov 2006 | Status: Trader | 4,417 Posts
the 10 letter m word....... posted by kerian, so assume he should know......h
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to trade and code, keep both simple... no call to impress....h
Does the minimum return required in the current month to achieve the minimum rating of 75 decrease if you increase your total return from previous months? I'm currently at 3.14% in October, and according to the rating calculator, I need to reach 4.96% by the end of the calculation period. So, as of now, I'd be short 1.82%.
here is my report...... 657 total trades...... 4629 in commissions.....
"A strategy with a profit factor of 5 and a recovery factor of 10 is exceptionally profitable and resilient."
"A profit factor above 5 warrants caution and further investigation, especially if based on limited data, because it can indicate a strategy that is overly optimized or has not been tested under varied market conditions. While a profit factor between 1.75 and 4 is considered good to strong, values significantly higher than this range should be viewed with skepticism until verified against a sufficient sample size of trades and a variety of market conditions."
Here is an excerpt from my MT5 report overview window for the Darwinex Zero account since launch to today. (05.08.25-24.10.25). However, I have the feeling that some of these metrics are not entirely accurate. The account's maximum peak-to-trough drawdown is actually -9.4% and not -2.58% as stated in the MT5 report.
