Research & Development
R&D Articles
Original research, backtest analyses and methodology notes on the strategies we publish.
Each article documents what we tested, what we measured and what we concluded — full data, no shortcuts.
Mag 28, 2026
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6 min read
Research / educational post on (1) payout handling A-vs-B and (2) positionsizing sensitivity, on a $1,500-target / $1,000-DD / $1,000-payout / $240-costaccount, using real ORB-fade strategies as the worked example. On a small prop account, two decisions matter more than your strategy’s win rate: how you handle payouts, and how big you trade. We ran […]
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Mag 23, 2026
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8 min read
A secondary strategy we’ve been tracking for nine months on MGC Gold has been quietly accelerating: profit factor has risen from 1.46 in the first quarter to 2.42 in the most recent quarter, with win rate climbing from 50% to 59% on the R:R 1:2 variant. Here’s what the data shows and why we think […]
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Gold
MGC
micro futures
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Mag 21, 2026
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8 min read
What happens when you take a single-instrument strategy with modest edge and apply it in parallel to 17 different stocks? The math of diversification produces a dramatic answer: profit factor rises to 1.51, drawdown collapses by 85% versus the naive sum of individual drawdowns, and the return-to-drawdown ratio quintuples. Here’s the full breakdown. Single-instrument strategies […]
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Mag 19, 2026
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8 min read
We tested whether adding a higher-timeframe EMA filter to our MNQ ORB 9:30-9:50 strategy improves edge. The result is unambiguous: across 12 months of data, the filter raises profit factor by 22-32%, delivers comparable or better drawdown (-11% to -24%), and improves win rate by 4-6 percentage points. Here’s what we measured and why it […]
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