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I Backtested 10,000 Strategies - Here is the Most Profitable (5 million trades)

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0:00This is something I've never shown on

0:03the internet before. This is probably

0:06two years old. It is a manual back test

0:09I did on Google Sheets. And if you look

0:11at the bottom here, there are quite a

0:14few of these.

0:16Um, and I bring this up because what I'm

0:19about to show you is the back test I did

0:21with AI where we back tested

0:2510,000 plus strategies

0:28and 5 6 million trades. And that's only

0:32valuable if you have a point of

0:34reference. So this sheet in front of

0:36you, every day after school or every day

0:39after work, I would come home and I

0:41would open Trading View. I would do a

0:44split screen with ES and then Q. I would

0:47take my strategy. I would test it out.

0:49And each one of these [snorts] is

0:51actually annotated.

0:54So, all of these pictures are

0:56screenshots I took of Trading View

0:58because I annotated the annotated the

1:00charts. I took a screenshot. I threw it

1:02in. I took some notes on what I saw. I

1:07filled in my time of entry, my pair and

1:11the result of the trade. And I entered

1:14my little formulas so I could understand

1:16my gains and my win rates. And this is

1:19how I back tested. And this whole sheet

1:22probably took

1:2410 to 20 hours because there's a lot of

1:27charts here and every single chart is an

1:30annotated chart. I was obsessed with

1:34learning how to trade and learning what

1:37edges would work. And so I dedicated

1:40myself to the craft.

1:43And that same dedication

1:45carries into the opportunity we have in

1:48AI. And what I'm about to show you is a

1:535.6 million trade back test with 10,000

1:57strategies.

1:59And I'm going to show you the most

2:01profitable strategies

2:04of anything that's out there. The best

2:07strategies to get paid, the best to pass

2:09accounts, the best to get payouts, the

2:12highest winning, the most money-making,

2:14the highest win rates. There's

2:15strategies in here with 100% win rates.

2:18There's strategies in here with 17R

2:22as an average winning trade.

2:25And I'm going to dive deep into all of

2:27this and explain how we can actually

2:31apply this. And before I get too deep, I

2:36want to take a second

2:41and preface this video.

2:44If you don't know who I am, my name is

2:46Luke. I've been I'm known on the

2:49internet as Lil Fish. I've been day

2:51trading for over three years. I've been

2:52using AI for around four years. I've

2:55made over five figures in payouts. And

2:57this year, I started using AI to do AI

2:59assisted trading. And you'll see why

3:01that's important, how that plays with a

3:03lot of these strategies. So, that means

3:05for me, I wasn't watching the charts. I

3:07was getting notifications of valid trade

3:09setups, then using my human discretion

3:11to decide whether or not to place or

3:13skip the trade.

3:16That led me to my biggest payouts ever.

3:20And now I'm working towards fully

3:24automated trading. So Claude designs the

3:26strategy. Claude places the trades.

3:29Claude just this past week passed two

3:31funded accounts and placed a winning

3:34trade on a funded account for me. The

3:36objective here is to have AI do the

3:38entire thing and AI to be that magical

3:41money printer that we're all that we are

3:43all after. But before I kind of go into

3:47this, I really want to speak to you

3:48because I really want you to win. And if

3:51you're here to just be entertained,

3:52that's fine. You're going to see a lot

3:53of really cool stuff and a lot of

3:55interesting information that you can

3:56find useful. But information without

4:00implementation

4:01is just entertainment. And that's fine.

4:03If you're here for that, that's fine.

4:04But if you actually want to win, this is

4:07information that you should be taking

4:08notes on and applying to your edges. The

4:12only reason I am not is because I

4:14already have formulas in place that I

4:17believe are going to lead me to make

4:18more money.

4:20I'm testing these. They're in the

4:22process of working. They are leading me

4:23to pass accounts and make winning trades

4:25and getting me very close to payouts.

4:28But if you're nowhere around there, if

4:30you're totally a beginner, if you've

4:31never used AI to back test,

4:34take notes on these. These strategies

4:37are digital gold, if you will. This

4:39information, these edges of what AI was

4:42able to find in the weeds is really

4:44helpful when it comes to how you should

4:48approach algorithmic or even

4:50discretionary trading. What is the best

4:52approach out there?

4:56So, let's get into it because there's a

4:57lot of fascinating information here.

5:12So,

5:145.6

5:16million trades,

5:1810,000 strategies.

5:20This was done over seven years of data

5:23on CFD data. CFD because you can get CFD

5:27data for free. This includes futures,

5:30but just their CFD version.

5:34[clears throat] Let's get right into it.

5:36Let's let's not hesitate any longer.

5:40Here's all the information we're going

5:41to look through and then we're going to

5:43look into

5:45the best strategies out there, the

5:48highest winners, and the ones that you

5:51should use.

5:56To start off, here are the most

5:59fascinating things that I find that you

6:01can implement right now.

6:03Cost divided by stop. So, when you enter

6:07a trade with a high position and a small

6:09stop-loss, you are more likely to eat

6:12into your edge because the commissions

6:13are so high. And I get a lot of DMs of

6:15people saying, "Oh, like I have a

6:17profitable edge, but the commissions are

6:19eating away. your stop loss is too

6:21tight. And this edge, this graph here,

6:24represents that. The smaller your stop

6:26loss is, the more you're paying in

6:28commissions and the better your edge has

6:30to be in order to win. So, this is

6:33saying that a commission that is less

6:35than 3% of the stop cost is more likely

6:38to win than anything else.

6:41Which market?

6:43So, across all the assets tested, NASDAQ

6:47is a dramatic winner. And that makes

6:49sense because this is one of the most

6:51liquid if not probably I don't I haven't

6:53looked it up but this is probably the

6:55most liquid asset of any to trade.

6:59That means they're the highest volume

7:01and the most points to catch. So NASDAQ

7:04is going to be your winner. Which time

7:06frame?

7:07This is a bit of a killer because

7:10there's a lot of people who love the one

7:11minute or they love the 3 minute or they

7:13love the 302. When I was making most of

7:16my money, I never dropped below the 30

7:18minute. The 30 minute was my

7:21executionary time frame. And really, I

7:23favored the 60 minute. And this proves

7:25that system to be true.

7:28Depending on what time frame you're

7:30using to trade, the higher the time

7:32frame, the more winning strategies there

7:35are. And that coincides with lower

7:38frequency trading because everybody

7:40loves to I'm going to trade every single

7:43day. That is not the most profitable

7:46approach. It just isn't.

7:49You will make more money if you trade

7:51less on the higher time frame. That is

7:54something I have experienced. That's how

7:55I got my payouts. I was executing on the

7:5730-minut time frame and across 10,500

8:00strategies. This proves that to be true

8:02even more. So,

8:04which session?

8:07Across all the sessions, London has the

8:11worst performance, second to worst,

8:14second to Asia. And again, that makes

8:16sense going along with NASDAQ because

8:19these are high volume, high liquidity

8:22times of day. And the highest performing

8:25strategies, all were New York AM

8:28session. This is the market open. This

8:30is that liquidity sweep at 9:30 a.m.

8:32that we'd love to see. Hopefully, you're

8:34already seeing a bit of a pattern here,

8:35and that's going to play into some of

8:38our best strategies.

8:40The New York AM session is the best in

8:44terms of all of these strategies

8:45combined. And I'm going to get into all

8:47of these different categories because I

8:49did not go out and hand select 10,500

8:52different strategies.

8:54That would be ridiculous. How the stop

8:57loss is set. I found this one to be

9:00interesting because I personally for my

9:03biggest payouts was doing

9:05structure-based stop- losses. Wick low.

9:07That's where it always goes. And

9:11this suggests that to not be the best

9:15approach.

9:17Marginally,

9:19fixed stop losses. Fixed meaning no

9:22matter where I enter, I'm doing a 15

9:24point, 50 point, 100 point stop loss.

9:27nothing else.

9:30Nothing to do with the candles, nothing

9:32to do with the volume, nothing to do

9:34with the time. That is the highest

9:37performing strategy or approach. Second

9:41to this was a surprise to me. Time.

9:45No matter when you enter,

9:48you just let it ride.

9:52Very interesting. You let it ride for 80

9:55minutes straight or 80 candles straight

9:58and then you exit no matter what. I

10:01found that to be fascinating because

10:03that is something you never see because

10:06prop firms make it in a way where if you

10:08do that you are highly unlikely to be

10:11profitable because this strategy, this

10:14timebased exit is going to lead to

10:16dramatic winners and dramatic losers.

10:19And in the prop firm environment, you

10:21have consistency rules. You have daily

10:24loss limits that prevent those huge

10:26winners and huge losers from happening.

10:29And that appears to be one of the most

10:32profitable approaches.

10:35How you enter

10:38stop, confirm, market, limit, all are

10:41around the same with limit entries being

10:44the worst performing.

10:48These are the 50 different families of

10:50strategies. I asked for it to pick the

10:51top 50 retail strategies. And what

10:54should you immediately see from here?

10:56The groups mean cumulative R per

11:00variant. Every single one is negative.

11:04Every single one of these has a negative

11:06expectancy.

11:10This is the reason that when I made my

11:12money and I chose to build an AI

11:14assisted system, it was AI assisted and

11:17not fully automatic

11:20because I knew that from my experience,

11:23I have a discretionary edge that when I

11:26see a trade setup, I could say hm yes or

11:29hm no. And I might not always be able to

11:32put into words why I feel that way, but

11:34that decision that I make leads to the

11:37success I have with the model. Because

11:39the model I traded was, let me see if I

11:42can find it.

11:44Was this liquidity sweep and reclaim C2

11:51zero survivors

11:54with a median trade result of

11:56negative.175.

12:00This is not profitable. Like any of

12:02these, these are not profitable. And

12:04these are including the commissions,

12:06which is a crucial part of strategy. You

12:08can't disregard commissions. The people

12:10who disregard commissions and then go to

12:12the live markets are why my DMs are

12:14filled with my strategy is not

12:16profitable when I don't know why.

12:19But this is the reason that I built AI

12:21assisted. I get the notifications that I

12:23make the decision. I'm avoiding all

12:25emotional aspects. I'm shortcutting to

12:27the only part where I'm valuable, which

12:29is that decision.

12:31That being said, I am actively in the

12:33process of proving myself to be inferior

12:36to fully automatic systems built with

12:38Claude.

12:45This is what I find more interesting

12:49than anything on this dashboard, and it

12:51is how likely it is to pass a 50k eval.

12:55So, there's 10,000 strategies. 10. I

12:58like imagine that for a second. That

13:00screenshot that I showed, that Google

13:01sheet that I showed of all the different

13:03trades, that was one strategy.

13:06This did it 10,000 times. 10,000 times.

13:13And all of those strategies only.6%

13:2060 of 10,000 strategies

13:24have greater than a 50% chance of

13:28passing.

13:33You have a 99.4% 4% chance that if you

13:38pick a strategy that is entirely

13:39automated, it is less than 50% likely to

13:43pass an account.

13:46So, choose wisely and make a decision on

13:49whether or not you want to keep yourself

13:51in the loop or not. This is why I've

13:54built systems like discretionary

13:56trainers before because I want to get

13:59better at my ability to decipher what

14:02strategies are winners or what trades

14:04are winners and what trades are losers.

14:16Look at all of these negative

14:17strategies.

14:19This should alarm you if you trade

14:22strictly algorithmic and not in a

14:24business prop manner

14:27because you need to do your due

14:28diligence in using AI or testing other

14:31strategies

14:33or using your discretion which is what I

14:36did.

14:38Now for all the strategies

14:42we can see that a lot of these have a

14:44incredible amount of trades. 11,000

14:47trades for all of these,

14:50which is unreal. And I'm going to break

14:53down what's interesting to me here and

14:56how this plays into the proper game

14:58because some of these strategies may

15:00look freaking awesome. We're going to

15:02see that, especially when we look at

15:03average RR and some of these just

15:06freaking crush it. 31 RR as an average,

15:10that kills it. But it's a 7% win rate.

15:15You can't pass an eval with a 7% unless

15:18you do I don't know what's that's like

15:2213 tries,

15:2414 15 tries to pass one evaluation

15:29that has a single day pass and no

15:31consistency. So this strategy would

15:33actually suck

15:36and it only won one time. probably a

15:39huge win

15:43because the trade count matters.

15:48Net R per trade.

15:53Man, I don't even know where to start

15:54because there's just so much here that I

15:55want to I want to talk about and I want

15:56to look at because you can look at all

15:58of these at face value. And this is

16:00what's so important. I get DMs all the

16:02time of people saying like, "Hey man, I

16:04have a 60% win rate and I'm not

16:06profitable." 60% win rate alone is not

16:09anything to tell me. Like I cannot get

16:11anything from you telling me you have an

16:13epic win rate because look at all of

16:14these 100% win rates, 80% win rate

16:16strategies and none of them are

16:18profitable. You have an 84% win rate but

16:21you're losing 85 but you're losing all

16:26of these 80s that are red. 80%. That

16:29sounds great, but look at all these

16:30losers because average RR and net R per

16:34trade are crucially important. And let

16:36me really scare you here because look at

16:38how many of these are likely to pass an

16:40eval

16:440000.

16:46They're not even getting to 1%. Most of

16:48these 1.6% chance of passing an eval.

16:54Forget even getting a payout. You're not

16:55going to pass the account to begin with.

16:59Okay.

17:03Best trades,

17:06best strategies,

17:12total net R.

17:17These are what I think are some of the

17:18best strategies,

17:22but they're not going to work on prop

17:25firms. And you can probably already see

17:27that because properforms are stacked

17:29against you already, which trading is

17:31already stacked against you. This is

17:32even more so. So you might be able to

17:34make gains with these in the live

17:35market, but it's highly unlikely a

17:38proper market. And you can see that

17:39immediately from the win rates. Win

17:41rates under 50% are almost impossible to

17:44make money with in the proper

17:46environment because you have consistency

17:48rules.

17:50Consistency rules have only showed up in

17:52the past year or two. The consistency

17:53rule is, if you don't know what that is,

17:55it means if I make $1,000,

18:00I can't have, if I have a 50% consist

18:03consistency rule, I can't have made over

18:06500 in a single trade. I must have taken

18:09two trades to make up that total or

18:11three trades. And so when a prop firm

18:13has instant day funding but a 20%

18:16consistency rule, that means you must

18:18have had five $200

18:21winning days. And if you lose and you

18:24make more on one day, if you

18:26accidentally make 300 on one day, now

18:28you have to make 1,500 before you can

18:30take a payout. Consistency rules will

18:32eat you alive.

18:34And so win rates that are low and have

18:37big average wins like these, volume

18:40spike breakout is the most profitable of

18:43any strategy. 10,500 strategies. Volume

18:47spike breakout is going to give you the

18:49most money and you will not be able to

18:52pass an eval and you will not be able to

18:54get a payout. Look at these statistics.

18:560% 0%. Look at the P&L chart over time.

19:01Very profitable. It's clear you can't

19:04win with it in a prop firm because of

19:06this number being 14%. And this number

19:09being eight

19:11because you're making nine times the

19:13amount you risk 14% of the time. And

19:16that's awesome and that's profitable.

19:18But that is not going to comply with

19:21what's required of profs.

19:26So you can't use this

19:34Now, let's look at the ones most likely

19:36to pass an even.

19:40Notice how it's another volume spike

19:43breakout. What do we immediately see

19:45here? We see high win rate, lower

19:50risk-to-reward. Now, unfortunately, this

19:53is only 27 trades. So, this is pretty

19:56unreliable data. We need much higher

20:00trade quantities before we look to use

20:02that. But we can see here, I mean,

20:07you could set this up to give you a

20:09notification when this trade exists. And

20:11so the few times a year when this

20:13strategy exists, you should take this

20:16trade.

20:19You're going to get what 27 trades

20:21across

20:23seven years. It says 0.07 trades a week.

20:26So, what does that mean? Once every 20

20:29weeks, two to three times a year, you're

20:32going to get one of these trade setups,

20:34and you should take it then because it's

20:35probably going to win,

20:38but uh you might have to wait an entire

20:41year to get this trade. So, if you want

20:43this criteria, here it is. Volume,

20:45spike, breakout, the family settings,

20:47the directions. How here's your entry,

20:50your stop, and your target.

20:52Here's your session, your daily flat,

20:55your maximum amount of trades per day.

20:57So, I know there's only going to be two

20:59signals a year, but if for some reason

21:01you get two per day, you could take

21:03both, but not the third. And you skip

21:06Wednesday and Friday,

21:11but we want a higher quantity.

21:14121 New York window sweep model. Let's

21:18take a look at this one.

21:22So this this looks great on the outside,

21:25but it's been unprofitable for the past

21:27two years, and it still is a lower

21:29frequency. You're taking one trade every

21:313 weeks.

21:35Here's your criteria. It's in the New

21:37York open because that's when we're

21:38having most of our volume, most of our

21:39liquidity.

21:43But it's profitable if you use it in

21:442024.

21:522026. We're on a hot streak.

21:56Random control.

21:58I love that. I just clicked on this one.

22:03A random strategy with a 150 trades

22:06happens to beat 99% of strategies.

22:13What is this telling you? What

22:14information is this giving you about

22:16automated strategies?

22:19Because I'm using fully automated

22:21strategies right now to pass accounts

22:24and getting close to payouts.

22:29So, why am I getting close to payouts

22:33with complete automation when after I

22:36did a 5 million trade back test, which I

22:38didn't do before,

22:40and almost nothing is yielding positive

22:43results.

22:51I can think of two things that this is

22:54telling me. Number one, human discretion

22:58is an asset and you should use it to

23:01your advantage.

23:03And number two, I just shared a tool

23:05with my community, Ocean AI, this

23:07morning. And this tool is to calculate

23:12the probabilities of passing evals and

23:16getting payouts including the cost of

23:18evals and the size of payouts as quick

23:21as possible in a business fashion.

23:27Treating profits like a business. How do

23:29we pass and get paid without being

23:33profitable? We don't even need to have

23:36good edges in the market. We don't even

23:38need to have an edge in the market, but

23:41we can still win and get paid.

23:45The strategies I'm using to pass

23:46accounts and make money on funded

23:48accounts hardly have an edge at all. In

23:52fact, a lot of the strategies that we're

23:53looking at perform better, just less

23:55frequent.

24:05Unreal amounts of data. Unreal. Now, I

24:08show a lot of this

24:14to expand your understanding of what you

24:18can do with AI

24:20because a 5 million trade study

24:26took me

24:29one night

24:31to do.

24:35And I did smaller ones that are the

24:36reason that I'm passing accounts now.

24:42But you should look at this and you

24:43should say, "Wow,

24:46look what I can do if I take advantage

24:48of the opportunities at hand. Look what

24:51I'm able to build with these tools."

24:56because I already showed you what I had

24:58to do manually

24:59and how in an afternoon I can do 5,000x

25:04that.

25:10I hope this is just a testament to use

25:12AI to your advantage.

25:16I talked about it a lot yesterday

25:22for

25:23the video last week.

25:27AI is an enhancer.

25:33If you are lazy, you can still get these

25:35results. And they are more than the

25:38results that I who was working hard two

25:40years ago was getting. You can beat me

25:43from two years ago who is more driven in

25:46an afternoon.

25:49But I am still the same me and I am

25:53still the same driven person. And that

25:56is why I am succeeding with AI and

25:59making more than I ever have.

26:02This year I've made more money trading

26:03than I ever have. And I attribute 95% of

26:07that to my use of AI and my

26:10optimization.

26:11eliminating myself from the loop, giving

26:14more work to AI to do, and keeping the

26:18only part of me that is valuable, which

26:19is my taste.

26:23I would argue I'm working and investing

26:26myself more than ever.

26:30I was spending

26:32hours a day to get 10 trades on a manual

26:35back test. I'm still spending hours a

26:39day, but instead of 10 trades, I get 5

26:42million.

26:46And if you want to reap the rewards

26:50that I'm reaping,

26:52you need to be that highly highly

26:55agentic person,

26:58but with the tools at hand.

27:02Because I just showed you a whole bunch

27:04of information.

27:06NASDAQ is the most profitable.

27:09New York AM session is the most

27:11profitable. Those things are true

27:13because they have the highest of volume.

27:16What does that mean? News events are

27:18likely to play into that.

27:20Small stop- losses get eaten away by

27:22commissions. Every retrail strategy is

27:26going to yield, not every 99.4% of

27:30retail strategies are going to yield

27:32negative expecties.

27:34So, do you take those strategies and

27:36approach them in the market anyways and

27:39figure out the percentages and the RRS

27:42you need to still get paid or do you add

27:45yourself in the loop and build some sort

27:46of automation where you only interact

27:49with what's valuable

27:51where you only do what gets you paid?

27:53You make the final decision

27:56all off of your taste.

27:59That's how I made most of my money in

28:01trading, my taste.

28:04eliminating the emotion.

28:12I made an entire video breaking down

28:14this back test, not this back test

28:16specifically, but back testing with one

28:17of my students on how I do this.

28:21And in my community, we're doing things

28:23like this all the time, back testing

28:25crazy amounts of edges and talking

28:29directly with students on how do we use

28:31the information that we have to get paid

28:34because that's our goal. It's fun. It's

28:37cool to look at a dashboard with a lot

28:39of green and red scare squares, but how

28:40do we get paid? How do we take this

28:43information, apply it, live test it, not

28:45spend any money until we're ready to

28:47take that risk and then get paid?

28:54If you're interested in being a part of

28:55that community, there's a link down

28:57below to apply.

29:00I only take people who are serious about

29:02it. I only take people who really want

29:04to make something

29:06and build something. I really care about

29:10my students and I really want to see

29:11them win

29:15because I've won and I know what that

29:17feels like and I want to deliver that to

29:20you. That's why I'm making these videos

29:21as well because I want to show you I

29:24want to break the mindset because so

29:25many of you guys are just going to AI

29:27and saying like make me profitable bro.

29:31[laughter]

29:32You don't think everybody else has had

29:34the same exact idea?

29:37You need to go deeper than that. You

29:39need to apply this information and

29:40connect the dots. go through phases of

29:45a systemic approach to actually get

29:49paid.

29:53This was done with cloud code using

29:55fable 5.1 ultra code and it was done in

29:59a single night and it's more trades than

30:02I could ever hope to back test. I back

30:04tested a thousand manually in my

30:05lifetime and to look at the screen that

30:07says 5.6 six million trades is

30:10absolutely unreal. AI is your

30:12opportunity to beat everyone around you.

30:14It's your competitive edge and you

30:15should be taking the absolute most

30:17advantage of it that you can.

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