Hi, I'm David! A programmer who left a tech career to pursue day trading. Follow my trading journey reset, where I publicly backtest strategies using a helpful tool I'm building.
Follow the journey →
Hi, I'm David! A programmer who left a tech career to pursue day trading. Follow my trading journey reset, where I publicly backtest strategies using a helpful tool I'm building.
Follow the journey →When I started trading, I grinded away, watched, learned, mentor hopped, and joined a few discords. I thought this would help me get profitable faster.
But it didn't!
Instead, I struggled with making impulsive decisions in the moment.
At some point I realized that I didn't have a real edge.
Before I started trading, I spent years learning how to program.
I built many projects, which eventually led to my career as a professional developer.
Now in the age of AI, this skill is quickly becoming redundant. But it still gives me an edge when I'm building.
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TeamTeamTeamTeam“I'm not chasing fast money.
I'm building a system that works.”
Most people quit after a few big losses. Me? I've taken breaks, but I always return.
From the outside the market seems impossible to crack. No documentation. No Stack Overflow. Just you, the charts, and your own psychology.
Yet I can't walk away from this challenge. I need to find my edge.
// ICT Bullish Breaker Block — NQ 15m // Entry on retest after Market Structure Shift //@version=5 strategy("ICT Breaker Block", overlay=true) lookback = input.int(10, "Swing Lookback") rr = input.float(3.0, "Risk:Reward") swingHigh = ta.pivothigh(high, lookback, lookback) swingLow = ta.pivotlow(low, lookback, lookback) mss_bull = ta.crossover(close, ta.highest(high, lookback)) if mss_bull sl = swingLow tp = close + (close - sl) * rr strategy.entry("Long", strategy.long) strategy.exit("TP/SL", stop=sl, limit=tp)
I got tired of losing and being inconsistent. I needed a smarter way to develop my own trading strategy.
I couldn't quite find the right tool for me, so I decided to build my own.
Still in development. Just sharing what I'm building. It'll be available for anyone to build their own trading strategy, backtest, and trade with data.
Visit BacktestingLab →Years of writing across two careers. The older posts are a developer figuring things out. The newer ones are a trader doing the same. I've left all of them up, because the change is the whole point.
Browse all blog posts →I'll be documenting my journey to find a profitable trading strategy. Testing all concepts to see which ones fail, which ones show promise… all while using the software I'm building.