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Independent research on Korean equities and crypto, prop firm rule comparisons, and tools to understand your trading risk.

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What does a loss cost?

A smaller balance needs a larger percentage gain to recover.

25% gain needed to recover a 20% loss

Illustrative arithmetic. Assumes no deposits, withdrawals or additional costs.

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How backtests
can mislead.

One winning curve leaves out the other ideas that were tried. Start with the method for judging the evidence.

Read about overfitting

Korean equitiesMarket structure, data quality and execution costs.Crypto marketsFunding, trading costs and historical experiments.Market microstructureOrder flow and the mechanics behind prices.Historical researchOriginal Stockback and Coinback records, with their limitations.

Historical records preserve the original findings and limitations. They are not a current live trading track record.

Know the
firm’s rules.

Compare how loss limits, payout conditions and trading restrictions work before choosing an evaluation.

Compare the rules

Compare firm rulesCompare loss limits, payout conditions and restrictions.Read firm reviewsReview individual firms and their source-backed conditions.Understand the rulesRead guides to drawdown, fees and strategy fit.Drawdown rulesUnderstand how different loss limits are measured.

Put numbers to risk.

Free calculators. Trade files stay in your browser.

Position sizeTurn a risk budget and stop distance into a position size.Drawdown recoverySee the gain needed to recover from a loss.Trading costsCalculate the win rate needed to cover costs.Trade diagnosticsInspect a trade CSV locally in your browser.

Follow the evidence.

Check the assumptions behind a result, from the source data to the test design.

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Backtest overfittingAccount for the ideas tested before the winning curve.Execution costsInclude the costs between a signal and a fill.Data qualityCheck coverage, adjustments and missing observations.Walk-forward testingKeep model selection separate from later evaluation.

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