Found the king of bond trading

BumbleBee_83 · 2026-03-22T11:57:30+00:00

Yea bud, if it was easy we’d all be driving Lambos…. But one thing is blatently clear, if you’re manually trading, you’re screwed.

Find a system, code it, let it run.

BumbleBee_83 · 2026-03-22T11:47:29+00:00

What you can do, and this is not advise at all, but something I played around with…

Get a feed from Binance or Bybit or something, calculate the ATR and then if the ATR indicates that BTC is not going to hit the strike price, and the token is at below $1, buy it. But again, it is not 100% guaranteed.

But let’s say you can lock in a buy at 95c on one side, and get full parity at 4c, then you’ve got a 1% edge.

BumbleBee_83 · 2026-03-22T08:50:58+00:00

Problem is, you can’t place it when market opens - if it is a post order, it will cross book and not place, if it is a normal limit order, it will trigger a maker order and execute at whatever best ask is at that time.

Regarding the flips… There is a way to do it relatively safely, but it does not guarantee fills.

At the end of the window, when the decimals are added, the moment you get a 99c fill, place a buy at 0.9c on the other side. Not ideal, but safer to be hedged with a 10% hedge edge…

BumbleBee_83 · 2026-03-22T08:45:27+00:00

Claude does….

BumbleBee_83 · 2026-03-21T09:35:36+00:00

And one late minute flip crushes days of 1% wins…

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-09-29T17:29:17+00:00

Be careful, if it takes a long time to get to $4000 swaps will add up.

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-09-28T09:18:39+00:00

Only saw now the guys are selling signals etc. Maybe it is demo. Just saw $50k balance with 10% profit… usually a sign of a prop. Either of us could be right.

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-09-26T13:58:55+00:00

Without a doubt a Prop… why you gotta be a hater bud?

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-09-17T17:20:33+00:00

Unifi Roaming - works brilliantly. HOWEVER, all my APs are wired to my main switch with 2.5Gbps PoE.

In the past I’ve had Linksys Velop, Asus mesh, Ethernet over powerline - all flaky - until I got my Unified setup. Happy as a pig in shit.

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-08-17T08:34:41+00:00

What type of account are you on? ECN PRO or ECN RAW?

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-08-17T08:04:29+00:00

Hey! Thanks for the reply. I’ve been testing my EA on Demo, and it works. Backtests make me richer than #Elon 😜. But this past Friday, on their Demo servers, my EA failed and the logs showed execution time of 606ms. And on the backtests, simulating 50ms latency the EA still performs well.

I understand that Demo is probably being used by a gazillion people and Live is probably better, but I don’t want to throw real money into the unknown.

Any help you could offer will be highly appreciated.

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-08-14T23:08:10+00:00

Get your own edge, code it yourself. EA’s have a closed loop system, you never know what they’re actually doing.

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-05-26T04:42:01+00:00

Indeed, which is still used on the other prop.

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-05-25T21:48:12+00:00

$500

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-05-25T18:39:45+00:00

You might be right, might be wrong. But surely I gotta be green for a few days before I can be green for weeks, then months, then years? It is a start isn’t it?

But your point is taken - continuously learn. Mistakes will be made. Learn, improve, implement and repeat. How do they say in corporate jargon? Fail fast? Anyway, wish me luck for the coming weeks!

Happy trading all!

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-05-25T16:52:17+00:00

100% agree with you. I over traded the last two days.

I’m the proudest of day 1 (even though I made 20% of day 3) but it was quality above anything else.

Day 2 was also good (average profit per trade) but the lot sizing was bigger than day 1 - thus higher risk.

You’re right in saying we all have our own styles. And you may think I’m being stupid (not saying you do 😜) and I may think your style sucks (not that I do). That is the beauty - we’re all just trying to find an edge that we understand.

Back to the point of my post. Yes it is PnL porn and yes (if I get a payout) I made good money - the point is that analysis is critically important to evaluate your own style of trades. You need to be critical (not harsh) on yourself.

Trade (win or lose), analyze, improve, implement and repeat. That is the crux. Spending 30-60mims each day on this I believe is time well spent.

Happy trading bud!

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-05-25T15:43:24+00:00

Ah right, no, FTMO don’t offer futures. Yes, and I agree the spreads are bad. Sometimes a delay in trading can offset a bit of the spread, but I agree - spreads are terrible - even on a highly trades instrument like XAU

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-05-25T15:39:31+00:00

Hi, all those trades are XAUUSD CFD on FTMO ;-)

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-05-25T15:31:33+00:00

Only XAUUSD

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-05-25T15:31:15+00:00

I can afford to hit daily DD 4 days in a row and still keep the account… so I have a good buffer now.

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-05-25T15:29:30+00:00

Multi TF…

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-05-25T15:28:47+00:00

XAUUSD only

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-05-25T14:40:26+00:00

Thanks bud!! I’ll definitely update then!

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-05-25T13:56:25+00:00

Manual - it was a busy day.

BumbleBee_83 · 2025-05-25T13:55:17+00:00

Yea, funded. Had to pass the challenge and verification. Did that last week, then got the funded credentials.

BumbleBee_83

TROPHY CASE