Your Trading Year 2025

Snålänningen · Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:17:44 +0000

Hi! As we walk into 2026, I think it could be time to reflect on the past trading year, and see what experiences and mistakes we can learn from last year. Would love to hear your thoughts, and not only your chart, both is encouraged, but of course feel free to mask out actual numbers. My year was tough, after a fantastic beginner year 2024 where the account grew 54%, this year turned out to be +-0 after fee’s. Here is some mistakes I did during the year. 1. Code Mistake During the spring I made a code mistake in one of my algos. That made the bot take an 800€ loss instead of a 100€ loss. With my small account size, that hurts! I MUST control and verify my algos before I start them live. 2. Dont use others algorithms Well, its always nice to find inspiration from other strategies, especially from ProRealCode! But by this I mean bot sellers algorithms. I got hold of “the best” algo from one of the big algo providers, for free, after a webinarium. I started it live because I thought this must be good! After 6 months it ended up with 500€ loss. That doesnt nessecary mean it is a bad algorithm. However, I find it far easier to have conviction, and endure drawdowns, in your own algorithms that you know HOW they work, rather than algos with hidden code that might be very overfitted. 3. Overnight fee’s With just some simple time exits, I would have saved about 500€ in overnight fee’s. I was too lazy or too ignorant to do that before this year. 4. Only use your most robust strategies During the year I needed to turn off some of my own algorithms. I guess this is part of the game, but I think my mindset was a bit wrong. I really wanted different algos on different timeframes to diversify my portfolio. But in the end, if the algo is not good enough, and sometimes even losing money, than you should not use it to force diversification. That is some of the lessons learned I take with me in to 2026. I would love to hear yours!

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Hi! As we walk into 2026, I think it could be time to reflect on the past trading year, and see what experiences and mistakes we can learn from last year. Would love to hear your thoughts, and not only your chart, both is encouraged, but of course feel free to mask out actual numbers.

My year was tough, after a fantastic beginner year 2024 where the account grew 54%, this year turned out to be +-0 after fee’s. Here is some mistakes I did during the year.

1. Code Mistake
During the spring I made a code mistake in one of my algos. That made the bot take an 800€ loss instead of a 100€ loss. With my small account size, that hurts! I MUST control and verify my algos before I start them live.

2. Dont use others algorithms
Well, its always nice to find inspiration from other strategies, especially from ProRealCode! But by this I mean bot sellers algorithms. I got hold of “the best” algo from one of the big algo providers, for free, after a webinarium. I started it live because I thought this must be good! After 6 months it ended up with 500€ loss. That doesnt nessecary mean it is a bad algorithm. However, I find it far easier to have conviction, and endure drawdowns, in your own algorithms that you know HOW they work, rather than algos with hidden code that might be very overfitted.

3. Overnight fee’s
With just some simple time exits, I would have saved about 500€ in overnight fee’s. I was too lazy or too ignorant to do that before this year.

4. Only use your most robust strategies
During the year I needed to turn off some of my own algorithms. I guess this is part of the game, but I think my mindset was a bit wrong. I really wanted different algos on different timeframes to diversify my portfolio. But in the end, if the algo is not good enough, and sometimes even losing money, than you should not use it to force diversification.

That is some of the lessons learned I take with me in to 2026. I would love to hear yours!

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