#Algorithmic Trading
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Should You Change a Trading Strategy While Losing? Coding the Review Process, and 13 Variants That Failed
I wrote 'reassess if losses persist' as preset triggers and a fixed decision order; the first automatic trigger caught two bugs in the review code, and none of 13 risk-reduction variants passed the preset bar.
Engineering ·
2026.09.30 -
Profitable in Simulation, Losing Live: An Honest Dry Run and Testing an AI Trading Model's Hit Rate
I made an always-profitable dry run pay gas and take rejections; a 24-hour test then found no directional edge in the AI model, so I shut the project down under a preset rule.
Investing ·
2026.09.22 -
An AI Trading Bot on Monad Mainnet: Requoting Every 300ms Costs Ten Times More Gas Than the Spread
Running an AI trading demo on Monad mainnet showed requoting every block costs ten times more gas than the spread earns; I also fixed a margin bug reverting 83% to 95% of orders.
Engineering ·
2026.09.21 -
Does Naked Candlestick Trading Work? Backtesting 1,026 Taiwan Stocks, It Lost to Random Entries Out of Sample
I turned a YouTuber's naked candlestick method into rules, backtested it on daily bars for over 1,000 Taiwan stocks against a random-timing control, and out of sample it lost by 2.62 standard deviations.
Investing ·
2026.09.21