How QuantMonitor Achieved DarwinIA GOLD on Darwinex Zero

Recently, one of our trading portfolios, SRBT, reached Darwinex Gold sur Darwinex Zero—an overnight success that actually took us two years of hard work! 😊

Portfolio equity at the time of achieving Darvinex Gold

What is Darwinex Gold?

Darwinex Gold is a recognition awarded to trading strategies on Darwinex Zero that meet specific performance, risk management, and consistency criteria, demonstrating robustness in live market conditions.

What key insights did we gather on the journey to this achievement?

• You can’t speed up the evaluation process—it takes time to develop a solid track record. Your robots may start strong, but over the course of a year, they will encounter different market phases, testing their resilience from multiple angles.
• Darwinex’s risk engine may surprise you. Since their goal is to provide stable trading signals for their clients, they normalize your signals, meaning the final equity curve might differ from what you actually trade in your account. This works both ways—sometimes it increases profits, other times it reduces them.
• Be patient—this “overnight success” took us two years!

What kind of trading robots are part of the portfolio?

All trading robots in our portfolio were created using StrategyQuant templates. Over time, we have found this approach to be the most efficient for developing robust strategies.

1. Define a template that captures a well-known market edge.
2. Ensure the template and build configuration produce in most cases profitable strategies during the building process.
3. Select generated strategies that are simple, robust, and perform well across different markets.

Covering all market phases

When composing a portfolio, it’s important to select a combination of strategies with low correlation and minimal drawdown. However, if their logic doesn’t cover different market phases, they may all hit stop losses at the same time when traded live. This is why having both trend-following and counter-trend strategies in the portfolio from the start is crucial.

If you’re interested in learning more about our trading robots and the methods we use, visit our QuantMonitor AlgoTrading research studio at: www.quantmonitor.net.

Bons échanges !