Trading Research Hub

I Wasted Months Sizing Positions Wrong. Here's What Actually Worked.

The correlation fix that doubled my portfolio's volatility (on purpose)

Jan 28 • pedma

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The Art of Trading

On creativity, uncertainty, and being guided by beauty

Jan 20 • pedma

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Targeting 40% Vol and Only Getting 20%: A Debugging Story

A deep dive into why realized volatility wasn't matching targets, and the allocation formula fix that solved it

Jan 18 • pedma

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Binary Signal Efficiency: When Scalable Code Bites Back

How a 10% gross exposure bug taught me to rethink signal handling.

Jan 16 • pedma

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When Scaling Bites Back: A $200/Day Lesson in Execution

How I bled money crossing spreads like an ape — and what I built to fix it

Jan 4 • pedma

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December 2025

November Portfolio Update

+7% in a down market, a new strategy, and the question that's driving my next chapter

Dec 14, 2025 • pedma

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222 Hours to Rebuild Everything

Restructuring my trading business while the market fell apart

Dec 4, 2025 • pedma

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November 2025

What happened on 10/10/2025?

A day to remember.

Nov 17, 2025 • pedma

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September 2025

The Low-of-Day Stop Loss Rule - Research Article #76

Testing whether observations from swing traders can improve systematic crypto strategies.

Sep 22, 2025 • pedma

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9/5/25 - Market Recap

Even though crypto trading might sound an exciting thing, a market filled with volatility and outsized returns, the reality has been quite different for…

Sep 5, 2025 • pedma

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August 2025

How a Simple Improvement to Signal Selection Led to 2x the Returns - Research Article #75

Does this trading signal decay with lower constraints?

Aug 30, 2025 • pedma

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This 1 Method Increased Crypto Trend-Following Win Rate to 60% - Research Article #74

A method to increase binary trend-following closed trades win rate.

Aug 22, 2025 • pedma

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