● That tells the story clearly. Starting from the worst historical period (Sep 20, 2021):
- $500: Dead in 596 bars (~4 months), 136 emergency closes - $1,000: Dead in 2,898 bars (~2 years), 1,028 emergency closes — fought hard but lost - $1,500: Dead in 1,695 bars (~14 months), 601 emergency closes - $2,000: Technically alive at $1 — effectively dead, 1,056 emergency closes - $2,500: Alive at $235 — zombie account, 1,049 emergency closes - $3,000: Survives and grows to $204,759 — zero emergency closes, 193 clean trades
The contrast is stark: below $3K the grid can't sustain itself — it's a death spiral of emergency closes chewing through capital. At $3K the system has enough margin to let the grid work properly and never triggers a single emergency close.
I have tried to make a system that works with small balances, they all die. I will continue working on it but the limits are real.
Chart 1 - Balance Minimum
Why does the low Balance Crash
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Why the worse historical time frame: We have no idea what the future holds, so finding the absolutely worse historical time to start trading just makes sense. IF, you do not start at the worse time period you can grow 2K to 6.5K but it takes so long that in practice you end up hitting a really bad market conditions sooner or later.
