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All trading is ultimately discretionary. - Ed Seykota

foundational principles for speculation
  1. 0.Cut your losses.Trading financial instruments can and will lead to painful losses — think risk first and always cut each and every loss, the sooner the better.
  2. 1.Never average down.If your first trade shows you a loss, it would be unwise to add to it. Also, if it is a losing trade, why not cut it instead of adding?
  3. 2.Price is signal.Human judgment is often flawed and usually wrong. Let the market confirm your thesis before taking action. Buy not at the lowest price but at the right price.

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philosophy

Pure discretionary macro

inspired by Jesse Livermore, Mark Minervini & Ed Seykota

Most finance professionals nowadays agree that speculating based on your experience and "gut feeling" is… wrong. But in order to achieve outsized returns one must, generally speaking, do something that most others don’t. Meanwhile, quant-oriented approaches have dominated Wall Street for the last 50 years and will continue to do so. I think the human judgment has gotten a little bit of a bad reputation and since Ed Seykota is right in stating that "All trading is ultimately discretionary" I consider it a feature, not a bug, that the alpaca turtle wikifolio’s trading system is: pure discretionary global macro.

strategy
live · wikifolio
  • global macro
  • discretionary
  • long, short, leveraged
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alpaca turtle

since inception
12 months
p.a.
max dd
volatility
invested
strategy documentationPDF · 17 pages · free
philosophy

Buy strength. Ride the trend. Let the stop decide.

turtle-style systematic trend following

Thirty leveraged ETFs, one rule: buy the strongest of the pack the moment it breaks its seven-day high — at most three positions, each guarded by a stop that only ever tightens. No forecasts, no targets, no opinions: losses are cut small and automatically, winners run until the trend itself ends. The system loses often and small, wins rarely and big — and when nothing is breaking out, cash is the position.

strategy
live · alpaca
  • leveraged us etfs
  • algorithmic trend following
  • long/short
algorithmic

us momentum

leveraged etfs · alpaca markets · turtle-style breakout

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win rate
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max dd
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watching the

world

The market is never wrong – opinions often are. - Jesse Livermore

the tape

2 years · daily charts · free public data, source under every chart

the words

share of articles on war, tensions and policy doubt · daily indices · higher = louder alarm

GPR: Caldara/Iacoviello · matteoiacoviello.com  |  EPU: Baker/Bloom/Davis · policyuncertainty.com

the odds

top 7 by money at risk · one bet per theme · implied yes-probability

Polymarket gamma-api · Kalshi trade-api (CFTC-regulated)

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Die Börse ist niemals offensichtlich. Sie ist darauf angelegt, die meisten Menschen die meiste Zeit zu täuschen. - Jesse Livermore

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