Alex Glanco

Building systematic trading strategies and bots in public. MFT strategies, research, backtests, live execution.

Founder of Trenq.

NFA.

[Alex Glanco @AlexGlanco]

I made the copytrading account public and then did the worst possible thing for engagement:

closed subscriptions.

Not a “copy my trades” link.

It’s a live Bybit-verified curve showing whether my systems hold up outside of theory.

Watch:
https://t.co/TuhUNtq2SS

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The difference between a pattern and an edge comes down to two questions: who is paying for the profits, and why will they keep doing it?

The pattern is what appears in the data. The edge is the repeatable reason behind it.

[Alex Glanco @AlexGlanco]

@nobrainflip Once algos work, the chart starts feeling less like a horoscope.

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First snapshot. Start of the track record.

Let's see if this baby curve grows teeth.

[Alex Glanco @AlexGlanco]

I made the copytrading account public and then did the worst possible thing for engagement:

closed subscriptions.

Not a “copy my trades” link.

It’s a live Bybit-verified curve showing whether my systems hold up outside of theory.

Watch:
https://t.co/TuhUNtq2SS

[Alex Glanco @AlexGlanco]

When your backtest is very clean ask yourself: was execution invited to the party?

Model: +$112 ---> Live: +$4.22

Infinite PF. Finite results.

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oops.
where is the floor?

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7/
The goal was never a perfect system.
That doesn't exist for long.

The goal is narrower:
don't be wrong for the same reason every time.

That's worth as much as any backtest number.

NFA.

[Alex Glanco @AlexGlanco]

1/
More rules won't save a dying strategy.

Even more filters + more confirmations + more conditions.

It feels like fixing it.
You're just fitting it tighter to a market that already left

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6/
There are flat stretches in there. Some periods just don't pay.

One system goes quiet, the others carry it.
Nothing breaks at once, because nothing breaks for the same reason

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@Nahim__009 hi

[Alex Glanco @AlexGlanco]

AI is not the threat.

The threat is spending years protecting a skill that the market just repriced to near zero.

What people defend isn't the skill. It's the feeling of being special it gave them.
So they deny the repricing instead of answering what comes next.

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Credit to https://t.co/Gc2LpuOEIs

Data research feels much faster now.

Load, filter, group, measure, change the idea, run it again.

When this loop is fast, you stop avoiding the annoying checks. And that’s usually where the mistakes are.

[Alex Glanco @AlexGlanco]

You don't notice yourself aging.

Someone who hasn't seen you in 5 years does.

Markets work the same way.

Daily, they look familiar. Over years they become unrecognizable.

Most strategies don't break suddenly.
They slowly become irrelevant. No one notices until it's expensive.

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Regime change.

The setup worked until the market stopped rewarding that behavior.

That’s what makes strategy decay painful.

It doesn’t always fail immediately.

It keeps looking familiar, while the assumptions underneath slowly stop being true.

[Alex Glanco @AlexGlanco]

A 98% win rate BTC strategy.

Long backtest.
Clean equity curve.
Rare but accurate BTC setup.

Looks reliable, right?
So what could go wrong?