I put $9,000 into an algorithmic trading software, and over the last six months, this is what’s happened.
Before I get into the results, I think it’s important for you to understand exactly how this software works and what it’s called. The way it works is pretty simple: you buy a license and attach it to your brokerage account. The moment you do so, the software will execute trades based on certain criteria embedded in the code. When this criteria is met, trades are triggered—you don’t have to do anything except check in on the account to make sure everything is running smoothly. In terms of executing trades, exiting trades, and managing them with take-profits and stop losses, the software does it all. The name of this software is called “The Dalio.”
So far, I’ve really enjoyed my experience using The Dalio for two reasons. The first reason is that it has a built-in basket stop-loss. If anything happens to my account and it reaches a certain percent loss or drawdown, it will automatically close out all the trades, protecting the overall capital inside the account. That’s reason number one. The second reason I like The Dalio is because it has a hedging mechanism. This means it will essentially take two positions on the same exact pair – meaning it could be long GBP/USD and short GBP/USD simultaneously. In simple terms, if you have a bunch of buys on Bitcoin, putting a short position in Bitcoin would hedge the position if Bitcoin were to go to the downside. That’s essentially what it’s doing with this algorithm.
Now, let’s look at the data to see how many trades and what kind of performance has happened over the last six and a half months since I started this account. Mind you, I started the account with only $9,954.
If you look at the data, you can see the following: This is The Dalio. This license is purchased from NERP. Of course, the broker I’m using is Manxa, and my leverage is 1:200. So far, since I started the account, it’s sitting at a 38.38% gain. The weird thing is when I started the account, it took me some time to get used to setting it up, and there was a bug in the very beginning. I actually didn’t even have it trading – it was paused. Technically, the software did not start trading until August; its first real trading days were back on July 20th. So there were only a few days of actual trading, and during that time, it didn’t really find any positions.
August was the first full month in which the software really scaled in positions and started trading very often. As you can see, my daily change is 15%, my monthly gain is 4.66%, and the maximum drawdown that I’ve experienced is 11.20%. That seems quite crazy, but the cool thing is I have a built-in stop loss at 20%. Worst case, I will hit a 20% stop-loss, but the account has already done 18% – so essentially, I’m just losing house money, which I don’t technically have until I sell it and actually receive it in my bank account. Until then, everything, in my eyes, is unrealized.
As you can see, the account was started with $9,995, and the current balance is sitting at $3,766. Over to the right, we have the whole equity curve. The red line is the reflection of the balance – that is, the actual account balance – while the yellow line underneath is the equity curve. The equity curve takes into account all the unrealized drawdowns and also the unrealized profits. The only thing that reflects the true account balance is the red line. With that being said, you can see on the yellow line the times when there were drawdowns. The first one was on August 2nd, sitting at a 5% drawdown. The next one was on September 23rd, sitting at a 5.5% drawdown. Then again on October 9th, followed by another on October 29th, and shortly after, on November 1st. The next one happened on December 18th. Currently, if you look, you can see a deviation between the yellow line and the red line. The current date is January 12th, 2025; you can see that gap, which is the difference that is unrealized. Right now, I am in a slight unrealized drawdown, but my account balance has not reflected it because none of the trades are actually closed—meaning the account balance never took a loss.
The total profit for this account thus far is sitting at $3,814. If we scroll down to the advanced statistics, we can see a couple of really cool stats. Since I started this account, it’s already done over a thousand trades—1,454 trades, to be exact. Its profitability is sitting at 71%, meaning it lost 29% of trades. In numerical terms, it won 1,037 trades out of the 1,400, so it really only lost 417 trades, which to me is extremely good. In fact, it’s so good that if we just peek over to the profit factor, it will show how much we are earning per our risk. As you can see, my number is 2.7—meaning for every single dollar I’ve risked, I’ve gained $2 in exchange. That is an extremely healthy profit factor. I like to look at this number when I’m evaluating different algorithms and trying to deem them worthy of use. For clarity, the profit factor shows how many times the gross profit (the sum of all the winning trades) exceeds the gross loss (the sum of all losing trades); the higher the value, the better.
Across the 1,400-plus trades taken, the account has accumulated 6,220 pips. If you don’t know what pips are, it’s basically how the Foreign Exchange Market measures its fluctuations. Our best trade ever on the account happened on January 2nd, which gave us a total of 361 pips – absolutely insane for an algorithm to swing that many pips and capture it in an individual trade.
Our average trade length is sitting at 4 days. This means that, on average, once it enters a trade, it takes four days to cycle through—that is, to enter and exit the trade, whether it is a win or a loss. Of course, some trades take a little bit longer and some a lot shorter.
If we scroll down, we can see all of my monthly performances. As you can see, in June—basically when I sent the money over to the brokerage with this license – no trades were taken; as you can see, we’re seeing 0%. In July, remember it started at the very end of the month, so it wasn’t able to take many trades. In August, it had its first full month of trading, which was 8%. September was 5.17%, October was 9.77%, November was 4.56%, December was 2%, and right now, January 2025 is sitting at 3.31%. And like I said, today is only the 12th, so we still have half of the month. Maybe we can close this out at a double, or maybe I could lose all the profits—I don’t know.
What I do know is that since I’ve started the account, it’s been extremely effective in helping my portfolio perform during any market conditions because it has a market-neutral strategy behind it. So far, the account has been extremely active, and I’m very excited to see what the remainder of 2025 has in store. I’m looking to potentially get this account to $20,000 so I can pull out my initial investment of about $10,000. That way, the way the account goes doesn’t really matter to me because all of it is house money – I already covered my initial investment. And that is the number one thing I always say anyone should do.
Of course, none of this is ever financial advice, but I like to share what I’m doing and what I would do so you can make the best educated decisions.
If you want to find out more about this software, check the comments – there is a pinned comment that will get you straight to the team so you can speak to someone on the phone and see if this software is something you might potentially like to try in your own portfolio. I believe they’ll even offer you some type of demo to get started, so you can try it out before you make an actual decision. If you just want to find out more without having to go on the phone, the description has a link. Click it, and you can explore the page for information that may be helpful for you.
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And like always, my friends – peace.
