Strategyquant Success

HI Everyone,

Someone emailed me today asking me about how I have found StrategyQuant after seeing that I’ve been a user for over 2 years and this prompted me to write about my journey using it and where it’s led me to this date. I’ve very much enjoyed using the product and initially after clicking a few buttons and getting some decent looking backtests, I thought.. “this is it! I’ve now got algos which will just make me an immense amount of money!” However, if only it was this easy.. indeed like a lot of beginners, I put these into live operation to find that the results were nothing like backtests… even getting the backtests to look as good in Metatrader with tick data didn’t seem to work.

However, I stuck at it and you have to remember that StrategyQuant is just a tool to help you pretty much like how a calculator can help you do complex sums quickly and accurate BUT… it depends on you pressing the right buttons and feeding in the correct information. StrategyQuant is exactly the same.. you need to make as the operator you know what you’re doing.. take time to learn about the software and also take the time to learn about how algo trading works in the real world. Most systems fail because of curve fitting…  then every broker differentiates in terms of their prices, spreads, timezones.. even their data feeds. What may seem like small differences in their data feeds can make a world of difference and depending on the entry / exit criteria and the indicators you’re using can all yield very different results.

To cut a very long story short, StrategyQuant is an amazing product but take time and dedication to learn.. and experiment. I’ve put in at least an hour a day over the past two years experimenting, testing and refining. There is no perfect solution and no perfect algo… markets will change but the key is to build a portfolio of algorithms and to constantly refine the portfolio.. monitoring them and removing when they start to fail and adding ones which seem to be working into your live working portfolio.

Having a workflow with StrategyQuant in the middle of it has helpded me make it work. This year, I replaced a portfolio I was running with all StrategyQuant algos I took through  this workflow. The result is a portfolio that has won multiple rounds of funding with the well respected Metatrader broker Darwinex. And as I write this, the portfolio is currently 5th out of over 3500 other systems for December 2020.. if it can remain here, then it will be the 4th allocation of funding in just 6 months (funding is allocated every month)

So this is all thanks to StrategyQuant.. I really appreciate the product and the team for continually updating and improving it! Thank soooo much!

My trading system (or portfolio) is called YFC. Not sure if I can post the link to it so you can see it’s results live:

Darwinex YFC system

<span data-sheets-root="”1″">StrategyQuant isn’t magic—it’s a tool. I treat it like a formula‑builder: it does the math, I define the rules. Took me years (1 hr/day) to learn curve fitting, data source quirks, broker differences. Now I run a portfolio of SQ algos, monitor them, drop failures, add new ones. It landed me Darwinex funding—wouldn’t trade live without that workflow.</span>