…there is no year which is not tough 😀

also I would even say, a year which is not “tough” is potentally kind of bad year. not in terms of profitability. but it might give one false confidence, which then leads to crazy activities. which then – in the end – leads possibly to the situation where one is “trading” 150 strategies on demo account.

my year was ok, accumulated +26% of profits with -18% max drawdown. it was worse than year before where I collected much more % profit and significantly less drawdown, the ratio profit/dd was much stronger, but anyway, that is different every year. 2025 had sure the potential for better result, but after exceeding 15% threshold for drawdown in early spring I was reducing size of few strategies / cutting them by almost half – just few days before trump removed tariffs and equities skyrocketed. I caught that huge move up with several strategies, but with some then only with approx half of usual size… was it a “mistake” to cut the size before?  maybe, but I do not regret it: I take care so much about my mental stability, not less than about finiancial side, and both are extremely important – at the same time. I am still amazed about paradox nature of trading business. one of the aspects being that one has to ignore “money” when making trading decisions (even in case one trades algos), and at exactly the same time one has to take care very much about the “money”.

one strange thing which I came accross last year was due to new strategy I developed end of the year. it has really totally different entry logic than all others which I run live or have ever developed – but after finishing the development and comparing backtest results it turned out that those results are very strongly correlated with results of another strategy which I run live since years. the correlation is so strong that I was a bit shocked. I am still “guessing” what is the potential learning behind that. not able to make any conlusion from all that still.

wishing everybody humble, vigilant mind and productive trading year 2026

justisan