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The above is the pure performance of my bots on my main cash account, no human intervention, no human errors, nothing, this account was turned on and left at the mercy of the bots 24/7 since August 2025.
The gains are not major. My other accounts copying its trades have higher profits, but also drawdowns. Believe it or not, the human error actually boosted results by 10-20% (mainly due to copier over-sizing positions, positions left open overnight or over a few days instead of closing them...etc etc), which works for me. The main account would only have 2-3 positions opened because it manually closed down trades the previous day, the trading accounts (mainly challenge ones from prop firms) would have 5-8 positions open, and this resulted in great performance.
At first I was worried, but I let it go.
Well, it went very well since August up until last week. I don't know what is going on with the markets right now, but I'm down 4% since last week (my biggest drawdown to date) and around 10% of my challenge trading accounts, and only 2% on my live funded accounts (I reduced the risk drastically).
I'm still in the "safe zone" because I played it smart. The max drawdown is 10%, and I'd need to have bad performance for months on end for me to reach that, but trades since last week have been stopped out constantly. I mainly do XAUUSD, USDJPY, EURUSD, XTIUSD, and a few other instruments, but these are the main ones, and they've eated through the profits from last week.
But I didn't turn them off. I know drawdowns suck, and they make me doubt myself all the time, but I know my bots performed well over a period of 6 months, then these parameters were backtested over a period of 10 years, then went into live and proved themselves to be working properly, and no matter whichever way I look at it, I just see that the markets simply played me, USDJPY was choppy, XAUUSD is in a weird spot right now, and before you say it, yes, my bots are trend-following, so yes, in fact if nothing is moving, I lose money. USDJPY shot up in price a few days ago and made a little bit of profits (you can see it in that last bump up), but let's not ignore that I lost a substatnial amount.
My live accounts have a completely different PnL due to my intervention and sometimes my mistakes, but I'm really proud of this, and I hope the markets keep on giving. I was 0.2% from getting disqualified yesterday on a few of the challenge accounts, but now I'm 3.2% away from being disqualified (i.e -7% drawdown or thereabouts).