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Aug 13, 2025 11 tweets 2 min read
This is the MAR Ratio.

It’s the single most important metric for your trading success.

It’s not about how much you make—it’s about how much you risk to make it.

And once you understand it, you’ll never look at trading the same way again: Image “I made 50% last year.”

“I doubled my account.”

Cool story.

But what happened during the 40% drawdown that almost broke you?

Profit without risk context is just marketing.
Jul 29, 2025 12 tweets 4 min read
Most traders are flying blind.

You chase trends, dabble in reversals, but silently wonder:

"Why isn't this working like it did last month?"

The answer isn't what you trade, but when you trade it.

That’s why Volatility Filters are important:Image 2/12
Forget gut feelings and generic indicators.

Systematic traders know: Volatility dictates everything.

Risk, reward, and profitability.

Ignoring it is like driving with a blindfold on.

It's time to quantify market "energy" with precision.
Jul 13, 2025 14 tweets 3 min read
Strategy #6 is my high-win-rate twist on Larry Connors’ 2-RSI system plus a bonus companion play.

Simple rules, 25 years of data, live-traded since 2023.

Let’s dive in ⤵️Image 2/14 The idea:
Trade WITH the trend, BUY the dip, and size positions dynamically.

Do it end-of-day so you can spend your days living, not chart-watching.
Jul 2, 2025 16 tweets 3 min read
Backtesting made you rich on paper?

It might bankrupt you in real life.

Here’s how to bullet-proof your trading system before it ever touches the market: Image 1/15

4 out of 5 new algo traders blow up within 12 months.

They trust a flawless equity curve.

Then live trading turned that curve into a cliff.
Jun 17, 2025 14 tweets 5 min read
The man who never lost a year in trading.

He knows what 99% don’t but you’ve never heard of him.

Stanley Druckenmiller made $1B in 1 day by breaking the Bank of England and walked away at the top.

This is the 5 mental models that built the best track record in trading: Image First, the results.

Druckenmiller ran Duquesne Capital for 30 years. 30% annual returns.

Zero losing years. Only 5 losing quarters.

Almost no one in history has matched that.

How did he do it?
May 8, 2025 11 tweets 3 min read
This is the simplest 2-ETF strategy you’ll ever see…

It has outperformed the Nasdaq for 13 years, compounds at 19.57% CAGR, and takes one calendar check-in per year.

Here’s how it works: Image 2/11 It all started with a tweet from @thechartist:

67 % BTAL (anti-beta ETF) + 33 % TQQQ (3× Nasdaq) → rebalance once a year.

The blue line in the chart kept sprinting past QQQ, so I bookmarked it, half-skeptical..

Could something so simple really perform almost 20% a year? Image
Mar 20, 2025 11 tweets 3 min read
This is a 10-Day Momentum Strategy for the Nasdaq 100.

It's simple, unusual, and aims to capitalize on quick market moves.

It buys on momentum and sells on further momentum.

Here is the strategy: Image 2/ It all starts with an idea:

• Use a 10-day momentum indicator
• Keep trades short and sweet
• Avoid unnecessary exposure by cutting out overbought signals

No fancy extras, just a focus on momentum and a candle-based exit.Image
Mar 5, 2025 10 tweets 3 min read
This is the “MACD Hook on Gold.”

It’s a strategy that uses two parts of the MACD indicator to ride Gold’s momentum.

It’s so simple. Here’s the strategy: Image (2/10)
We tested this system on XAUUSD (Gold), 1 € per point with 10.000€ in capital.

Daily timeframe, 1 Point spread, using ProRealtime 12.

The “hook” occurs when the MACD histogram flips from down to up—while the MACD line itself stays above zero. Image
Feb 22, 2025 10 tweets 4 min read
This is a “3 Down, 3 Up” strategy for the Nasdaq 100.

It’s a simple mean-reversion approach: it waits for the index to drop three days in a row and then buys, anticipating a short-term bounce.

The backtest results may surprise you. Here’s the strategy: This is the 3 Down, 3 Up strategy but with added dynamic position sizing. (2/10)
Why 3 Days?

Nasdaq rarely continues falling too many days consecutively before a rebound. As the old saying goes, “3 is the magic number.”

To reinforce the signal, at least one of these down days must have a large body (≥70% of its range).Image
Feb 12, 2025 11 tweets 4 min read
This is Jesse Livermore.

He's a trader who J.P. Morgan and Wall Street begged him to stop.

He doesn't know anything about trading & made $100M with ONE trade.

His strategic philosophy for trading is why day traders still copy him today.

Here's the philosophy: Image Jesse Livermore started trading at 14.

He ran away from home with just $5 to work as a board boy at Paine Webber.

He made his first $1,000 by betting against the very traders he served.

No formal education. Just pure instinct, observation, and guts. Image
Feb 5, 2025 10 tweets 4 min read
This AI decides which stocks rise and which crash.

It analyzes $21 TRILLION, nearly the entire US economy.

Here’s how BlackRock uses AI to control the market: Image Larry Fink runs BlackRock.

A Wall Street legend who built BlackRock from $0 to $10T AUM in 30 years.

BlackRock manages $10 trillion: More than the GDP of every country except the U.S. and China.

This is possible because of “Aladdin”, an AI-driven risk-management system. Image
Nov 22, 2024 13 tweets 5 min read
Jim Simons hired scientists instead of Wall Street pros and everyone thought that the Medallion fund was doomed.

He was right. Everyone was wrong.

It’s the investment masterclass of the decade and every investor must understand why it worked: Image Jim Simons wasn’t just any investor. He was a math genius who had never taken a single finance class.

Yet, he achieved something Wall Street couldn’t believe.

His fund, Medallion, averaged 40% return/year for over 3 decades, turning $1 into over $20,000.

He rewrote the rules.
Nov 15, 2024 13 tweets 4 min read
This is Ray Dalio.

He built a $130B hedge fund studying patterns from history.

He says America's collapse has already begun.

Here’s his timeline for America’s decline (and how to avoid danger): Image Why listen to Ray Dalio?

• Predicted the 1987 crash
• Predicted the 2008 crash
• Built a $130 billion hedge fund

After calling the 1987 crash, he even appeared on Oprah’s show, warning about America’s foreign debt.

But his warnings go much deeper... Image
Jul 5, 2024 5 tweets 2 min read
🧵 How to Create Mean Reversion Strategies!

1/ Mean-reversion trading capitalizes on the tendency of asset prices to revert to their historical average, making it a reliable basis for developing systematic trading strategies, especially suitable for short-term and swing trades. Image 2/ Why do these strategies work?

Overreaction: Markets often overreact to news and events, causing prices to deviate from their intrinsic values.

Market Inefficiencies: Psychological, liquidity, or supply-demand imbalances create exploitable price deviations.⬇️