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Reddit — r/algotrading
· April 07, 2026 at 14:12
· ⬆ 16 pts
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The author is an individual algo-trader describing poor performance results from their simple daily-trading bot using basic technical indicators and walk-forward optimization.
They report a best-case backtest of 15% return with a low Sharpe ratio (0.7) and an extreme maximum drawdown (~60%), and are seeking community feedback to set realistic expectations.
Quality assessment: Noise. This is a personal anecdote and request for peer comparison with no substantive research, data, or market analysis presented.
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Hi people,
I was wondering what to expect doing algo trading. I'm building my own bot and it's pretty simple: up to one trade a day, and tested on ood data using walk forward optimization scheme. for context I posted a couple of weeks ago wondering if people truly made money using algo trading.
Now, I'm trying to find the right set of parameters for my model. It only uses basic technical indicators and the best outcome I had was a return of 15 percent with a Sharpe of 0.7, the mac drop down was brutal, around 60 percent.
I'm still going to try to tweak my parameters and optimize the whole stuff more rigorously before dumping my trading system and coming up with something better.
I wanted to hear your results