I found this strategy while I was searching for _lowest_ Maximum Adverse Excursion (MAE) futures strategies that could be used in an IRA. In my opinion, it is a perfect strategy to pair with Infinity 2020, because that other strategy retains a lot of spare cash and is strongly dependent upon the overall long uptrend in the market. The AlgoTrader NQ strategy uses that spare cash to trade Nasdaq 100 futures contracts, both long and short, meaning that AlgoTrader NQ can act as a hedge when Infinity 2020 has down trending days, although obviously no performance guarantees can be made for this setup. Recently, the strategy author, AlgoTraderLLC, and I have been talking about NinjaTrader and the implementation of C2 Autotrading and Smart Portfolios. In those contexts we have talked about risk. I can tell you that AlgoTrader LLC is very strong at NQ futures risk management, the strongest I have seen on C2 in a futures strategy, in fact. A lot of effort is made to cut the losses early, especially in recent weeks with the market turbulence. It is extremely impressive to see. However, when I said I was going to write this review, AlgoTraderLLC cautioned all potential investors that the outstanding performance seen since Feb 23rd (when I joined) cannot last, and that investors must be prepared to lose money, potentially lots of money. I have one final request from me as an investor to other investors. AlgoTraderLLC mentioned that a lot of people send messages about individual trades or trading days or weeks. So from one investor to another: being a trade leader with hundreds of thousands of dollars riding on every click is extremely nerve racking. Please do not bother the trade leader if things don't go perfectly. The trade leader knows what happened (unless it was a technical error with autotrading itself). There is no reason to distract them while they are trying to interpret what the market is about to do next.
Puts get assigned often then the stocks are held long-term which means that these losing trades do not show up in the trade history but drag down performance. Plus holding the stocks ties up cash that could be used to sell other puts. Seems like a losing strategy in the long run.
I can see why he got the good reviews earlier. But, anyone can be a star in a strongly bullish market.
I am not pleased and I don't think he realizes he is messing with people's life savings or retirement and not some video game.
Seems to sell puts on wallstreetbets types of stocks so timing is crucial and has been off more than on. So you end up owning stocks in downtrends. Selling calls on them does not make up for the fact that you are holding a bunch of losers. And the premiums drop like a stone when the stocks are in a downtrend.
There's not much to be said when a trader fails to implement any type of risk management... leading to a 50% draw-down on just one trade! You would be foolish to think that Colin's track record (prior to implosion) means he's learned how to use stop-losses to limit catastrophic losses. He's completely irresponsible at managing client funds.
Horrible lately. Buying EOD high, selling EOD low and waiting till very last min to sell when market showing all day lower intraday highs and lower intraday lows. 20% exactly the wrong direction EOD just like today.
Failed to employ any meaningful risk control, leading to implosion... despite Colin's assurances (that he implements risk controls) to the contrary. When evaluating strategies and their methodologies for risk control, do not trust anything Colin tells you.
Very bad.
Subscribed to this strategy thinking it was a conservative one looking at the way it was managed. very low drawdown over a year and was actually part of the C2 as well as other strategies under this manager.
but looks like a kind of craziness have taken over this strategy manager who in past seemed to have a conservative approach but recently has been blowing all his strategies the same way.
Was promised a strict risk management plan and was given a blown up account a month. -70% in 2 months or less is honestly a crazy feat that i could not be done. Congratulations Dr. Pogi!
Trades profit and loss rather than risk reward on a particular trade. If you enter in the middle of the day and the account is up, too bad. Does not close losing positions, which obfuscates C2 trading log. Keeps doubling and redoubling down against the strength of the market, even though it passes through several resistance levels over the course of hours. Poor trade entry. Does not wait for appropriate breakout patterns to scale or enter trades, so you get beat up for it, and they stay in the trade longer to try to make up for it, putting way more money at risk. C2 should show more of the intraday shena***ns in the strategy plots so that we would know to stay far away before the recent losses. Short or long it and forget may have worked during the last year, but in today's market it does not work.