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Following a Strategy

A Strategy's record is not your result, and the distance between them is the part nobody explains.

Choosing a Strategy is the half that gets written about. What happens afterwards decides what you actually end up with, and almost all of it comes down to five differences between the account a record is measured on and the account you are trading. This page names each of them, and says which ones are yours to close.

First, how to judge a record How the figures are computed

What a published figure is actually measured on

Every performance number on a Triggon Strategy is computed on a simulated account of $10,000, with the Strategy's own declared sizing, sampled after every closed trade and at the end of each day.

That is a deliberate choice and it is what makes two Strategies comparable at all: the same account, the same sizing rule, the same clock. It also means the return belongs to the Strategy rather than to any person. Nobody's real account is that account.

So the honest way to read a record is as a description of the Strategy's decisions, cleanly separated from everything that happens between a decision and a fill. What follows is that everything.

This is why we publish the account the figures come from. A platform that shows you a return without telling you what it was computed on is asking you to assume it was computed on yours.

The five differences

In roughly the order they matter. The first two are yours; the last three are the market's, and can only be reduced rather than removed.

1. Your size is not the Strategy's size

The record uses one sizing rule on one account balance. You are using a different balance and, unless you have deliberately matched it, a different rule. Every percentage in the record scales with that, and so does every drawdown in it: the same losing stretch that took the simulated account down twelve percent takes yours down by whatever your own sizing turns twelve percent into.

This is the difference with the largest effect and the one entirely within your control. It is also the one Triggon deliberately does not choose for you, because a sizing rule is a statement about your circumstances and we do not know them.

2. Your timing is not the Signal's timing

A Signal enters the record at the price the Strategy acted at. If you read it eleven minutes later and enter at a different price, your trade is a different trade from that moment on: the same stop is now a different distance away, and the same target is now a different reward.

The gap is real, and worth knowing about rather than being surprised by. Acting by hand is entirely reasonable; it just means this difference is one you are choosing to carry. Acting on the Signal automatically is the direct answer to it, which is what Auto-Trade exists for.

3. Fees and funding are charged against your account, not the record's

Trading costs money. Maker and taker fees, funding on a perpetual position held across a settlement, financing on a leveraged position held overnight, and the spread you cross on the way in and again on the way out. A Strategy that takes many small profits is affected by this far more than one that holds for days, and two Strategies with identical published returns can be very different after costs.

4. Your fill is not the quoted price

Slippage is the distance between the price you asked for and the price you got. It grows with position size relative to the market's depth, and it grows in exactly the conditions a Strategy is most likely to be firing: fast moves, thin books, the minutes around a release.

This is part of why every Strategy has a seat cap. A Strategy trading a market with limited depth behaves differently with fifty subscribers than with five thousand, and its Provider is the person who knows where that line sits. How seats work →

5. You started in the middle

The record you read runs from the Strategy's first trade. Yours runs from your first one. If a Strategy is holding an open position on the day you subscribe, that trade will finish in its history and will not be in yours, and the reverse is true at the other end when you leave. Over a short subscription this can dominate everything else on this page.

It is also the reason a Strategy should be judged over a period, not over your first fortnight. The record's worst stretch is in the record; your first fortnight may or may not contain one.

What arrives, and what it expects of you

A Signal is a complete instruction, not a suggestion to look at a chart. It is also part of a sequence, and the sequence matters more than any single message in it.

  1. The entry Signal carries everything the trade needs. Market, direction, entry price, stop loss, and the take-profit levels with the share of the position each one closes. Nothing about the risk on that trade is left to be worked out later.
  2. Later Signals manage the same position. Adding to it, moving the stop, taking partial profit at a level, closing it early. They are not new trades and treating them as such is the most common way a follower's result diverges from the record.
  3. A missed management Signal leaves the position yours. If you act on the entry and then miss the message moving the stop to break-even, you are holding a different position from the one the record is now describing.
  4. Stop-outs arrive like anything else. A Strategy's losses are delivered, not quietly omitted, and they join the public record at the same moment. There is nothing to check afterwards to find out whether you were told.
  5. The closed trade joins the history immediately. You can go and read what happened against what was said, on the same page anyone considering the Strategy reads.
What a Signal contains, in full → Acting on them automatically →

Telling a bad patch from a broken Strategy

Every Strategy worth following has losing stretches in its record, and you will be inside one at some point. The useful question is not whether it is losing but whether it is behaving the way it always has.

Compare the drawdown to its own historyA fall inside the maximum drawdown the record already contains is the Strategy doing what it has always done. One well past it is new information.
Watch the shape, not the balanceTrade frequency, hold time, position size and which markets it touches. A Strategy that has quietly started doing something different is the signal; the losses are the symptom.
Check whether it went quietA Strategy that stops trading stops adding evidence. The checkmark is a rolling window over recent activity and is lost when the window empties, which is visible without asking anyone.
Read the journal, not the last weekThe Provider's journal arranges the same record by month, by market and by session, which is where a change in behaviour shows up long before a headline figure moves.
Leaving is meant to be easy, and that is the point. A subscription is cancelled when it stops working for you, the seat returns to the pool, and the Strategy's record carries on being public whether you are in it or not. Nothing about the arrangement depends on your not being able to leave.

What this page is not

Not a sizing recommendation

Nothing here tells you what fraction of anything to commit. That depends on circumstances we do not know and should not guess at, and a number invented for a web page would be worth exactly what it cost to write.

Not advice

Trading carries risk and you can lose money. This page describes mechanics: what a published figure is measured on, and what sits between that measurement and your account. The full risk disclosure →

Start with a record, then decide.

Open any Strategy and read its whole history, losses included, before any of this becomes relevant to you.

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