Drawn in by blockchain — the technology pulled me in, the volatility hooked me. Started trading crypto on instinct. Loved risk. Lost to it consistently. The market taught me what no book could: intuition without method burns capital fast.
Found TradingView. Learned Pine Script from the legendary authors of the platform. First backtests came back beautiful — equity curves up and to the right, sharpe ratios that made sense. I started believing.
Same strategies, working in backtest, dying live. Reverse-engineered the gap: I'd been writing strategies that fit the equity curve, not the market. Indicators stacked for show, not for signal. Every parameter tweaked until the past looked perfect — and the future didn't care.
The breakthrough: edge lives in diversity, not depth. Different indicators, timeframes, regimes — the synergy compounds. Mean-reversion is my favorite (trends are rare; markets always come home). AI agents help sift signal from noise across masses of data. Stratiq is the toolkit I wish I had in 2019 — built honestly, refined live, on my own capital. Trading indices, commodities, crypto, and top-caps for a living. The strategies on Stratiq Portfolio are the same ones running my book.