Strategies
Four strategies, one risk ladder.
Ordered from the calmest to the most aggressive. All figures are % of the initial $10,000 deposit, without compounding.
Risk 1/4 · Currency pairs, grid
Grid
Selection: 4 years, Oct 2021 – Sep 2025Out-of-sample: 1 year, Oct 2025 – Sep 2026
Avg. per Year (simple)
+4.82%
Max Drawdown (closed trades)
-2.86%
Worst Case, Floating (sum of sets)
-16.72%
Out-of-sample
+4.66%DD -1.91%
Simulated results on historical data (backtest), not actual trading. Past and simulated results do not guarantee future performance.
Risk 2/4 · Indices and currencies, trend
Vanguard
Selection: 4 years, Oct 2021 – Sep 2025Last year: Oct 2025 – Sep 2026
Avg. per Year (simple)
+21.47%
Max Drawdown (closed trades)
-6.06%
Worst Case, Floating (sum of sets)
-30.81%
Last year
+31.13%DD -2.99%
Simulated results on historical data (backtest), not actual trading. Past and simulated results do not guarantee future performance.
Risk 3/4 · Crypto futures
Crypto
Selection: 18 months, Oct 2024 – Mar 2026Out-of-sample: 6 months, Apr 2026 – Sep 2026
Avg. per Year (simple)
+69.70%
Max Drawdown (closed trades)
-5.13%
Worst Case, Floating (sum of sets)
-37.24%
Out-of-sample
+13.98%DD -3.71%
Simulated results on historical data (backtest), not actual trading. Past and simulated results do not guarantee future performance.
Risk 4/4 · 30+ currency pairs
Phantom
Selection: 4 years, Oct 2021 – Sep 2025Out-of-sample: 1 year, Oct 2025 – Sep 2026
Avg. per Year (simple)
+103.11%
Max Drawdown (equity)
-38.55%
Out-of-sample
+57.57%DD -15.39%
Simulated results on historical data (backtest), not actual trading. Past and simulated results do not guarantee future performance.
Returns by Year
% of the initial $10,000 deposit
| Strategy | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|
| Grid | +1.01%3m | +6.94% | +3.86% | +5.03% | +2.99% | +4.23%9m |
| Vanguard | +5.07%3m | +23.63% | +2.76% | +22.36% | +26.02% | +27.42%9m |
| Crypto | — | — | — | +18.76%3m | +89.92% | +30.43%9m |
| Phantom | +1.51%3m | +156.66% | +94.97% | +59.92% | +164.50% | +37.65%9m |
Partial years show the number of months covered.
Simulated results on historical data (backtest), not actual trading. Past and simulated results do not guarantee future performance.
Drawdowns are % of the initial $10,000 deposit. Phantom is measured on equity; Grid, Vanguard and Crypto on closed trades, with the worst case shown as the sum of the floating drawdowns of all sets. The two bases are not directly comparable.
Out-of-sample periods follow the selection period and were not used to choose parameters; for a few sets the selection window overlaps the first weeks of that period. Vanguard's last year is shown separately but part of its sets were selected on that year, so it is not an out-of-sample test. Average per year is simple, not compounded.