And so what kind of stuff did you switch to as a systematic trader? Like what kind of strategies? What attracted you more about that than the discretionary style?

For me, it was less about the strategies.

It was more about the freedom.

So everything that I do is algorithmic.

So I don't have to worry about execution or watching charts or any of that sort of stuff.

So I get a lot more time.

I have a lot less emotional stress because I have two young kids.

how did you manage to increase the capacity like that like what have you done to how does one go about increasing the capacity of their strategies or like their portfolio in general

And like how did that shape your trading? Like were you trading for a while first and then you went, oh, hang on, I could do this on DarwinX? Or was it pretty early on that you discovered that?

so i started making the transition in january of 2025 from discretionary to systematic and then i started my track record in april which was kind of the first time i took anything live so i i started with the darwin x account but the the main reason outside of the fact that I work there because I'm always conscious, right? When I'm talking about DarwinX, I don't want people to just think, oh, he's a salesman.

He's trying to sell us on.

I genuinely use it myself.

And for specific reasons, the main reason for me was I was building a portfolio of strategies.

And obviously, you know, any trader knows you need a sufficient amount of margin in your account, right? and with we we have a program called darwin x zero which allows you to trade with a virtual balance at least to begin with of 100k or a million in futures so that solved the margin problem for me because to be completely honest i was brand new to systematic trading my strategies hadn't proved themselves i wasn't ready to go and drop i think the minimum margin that i needed was about 60 000.

i wasn't willing to drop 60 000 into a broker account to test whether i was right or wrong So that kind of solved the problem for me is I can get this account for next to nothing, get the margin that I need.

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