Yes, I agree with you. Monte Carlo simulation makes perfect sense. I'll test it tomorrow morning. I also wanted to fix the small RandomEA issue. I noticed that the trailing profit functionality isn't working. I'll also try adding the moving average ...

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"Hedge funds had a strong 2025, with a weighted average return of 16.6% year-to-date through the third quarter." So I'm not doing too badly, even though hedge funds probably traded with far lower leverage and far more capital.

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I'm still keeping an eye on it. I just don't know how much weight I can/should give it right now. First, as I said, I'm getting different values displayed everywhere (despite using the same account), and then there's the question of how meaningful ...

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Yes, absolutely. I also believe that a great profit factor or sharpe ratio should currently play no role for me. Over a period of a few months, it's probably not significant anyway. Yes, as the current system is automatic, and therefore everything ...

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Yes, I hadn't considered that at all, but it's true. If you buy a permanent allocation and then immediately go into a drawdown, you obviously won't earn anything from the allocation until you reach your HWM again. So, in that sense, permanent ...

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I'm really confused by all the different Sharpe ratio values you get depending on which metrics analysis tools/providers you use. For example, the FF Trade Explorer shows a Sharpe ratio of 4.22 for the account. The MT5 report shows a Sharpe ratio of ...

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FTMO Trial account finished. Well. That would have put me on a good path to passing the challenge, I think (+10% in the first step and another +5% in the second step). image

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Yeah. It’s hard to see who can be trusted. Monty is an interesting character but unfortunately I am not that gut feeling trader. Regarding to prop firms, I consider giving it a try with FTMO, Topstep, Tradeify but you hear mixed reviews there all ...

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Well, yes. I understand your point, and we've already heard several different opinions on this. Some say strategies suddenly stop working, others say they continue to work. It feels like asking my therapists and doctors. Ask 10 and you get 2030 ...

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Great! My NinjaTrader account has finally been opened. Now all I need is a million to deposit :-) Anyone here who can help me with that? image

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Why don’t you ask the Darwin’s owner?

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Thanks a lot. Yes, I wanted to share my EA on it too, but if it has absolutely no positive expected value, I don't want to waste people's time with it. I just asked Perplexity the following question: Do a comprehensive backtest evaluating a ...

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Hehe noch ein Rheinländer I'm not yet sure if the EA I programmed followed the described rules as precisely as outlined in the Perplexity PDF (since some of them are somewhat vaguely defined). I tried to recreate it as best I could. I'd like ...

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Thanks, yes I'm trying to sort that out right now, but somehow they seem to be not very flexible. I'm still not sure if using boosters makes more sense than permanent allocations. The 12-month booster seems to cost significantly less than the ...

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Absolutely fantastic. My Darwin account was cancelled due to ONE failed payment, and now support is telling me there's no way to recover it and that my track record is lost, even though it's still clearly visible on the Darwinex platform. ...

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It states that Darwin currently has 17 investors and a total investor capital of $1,056,686.93. That averages out to $62k per investor. url Look under "Investor capital progress" to see in more detail how the investors have formed. Particularly ...

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How many Darwins/accounts do you have now, and have you had any problems so far? "The maximum allocation for a Darwinex Zero account is €500,000, which can be made up of a €100,000 permanent allocation and up to €400,000 in Boosters." Are the 500k ...

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Hmm. The first backtest with the current version of RandomOrderEA is still far from the results Perplexity is reporting. I've done several backtest-runs because of the different distributions of random orders, but the results are all negative so ...

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Yes, I saw that. I'll try it out soon.

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Thanks for the tip. I just took a quick look, and ChatGPT seems to be able to perform historical backtests, even apparently on Tick-by-tick data that you provide. It might even be possible to get the data via some API by now which is then used by ...

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