The Rhyme Blueprint

I killed 15 trading strategies before they could kill my account.

Most algo-trading content sells you a strategy. I'll show you the system that executes them — pre-registered kill criteria, strategy passports, and a dated research journal where most ideas die. Free: the full kill list, with the real numbers.

One PDF now, a short series on how the killing system works, then occasional research notes. Unsubscribe anytime. No signals, no spam.

15+ documented kills

Every one dated, logged, and adjudicated against criteria written before the test ran.

Real spreads, real paper trading

Every figure labeled simulated; no profit claims, anywhere, ever.

The audit that caught my own log lying

And the process that made that possible.

Free PDF

The Kill List: 15 Trading Strategies I Tested and Killed — and the One-Page System That Killed Them

  • —The spread table that flipped seven “profitable” pairs negative overnight
  • —Two mirror-image strategies that each “worked” for exactly half of six years — and why both died
  • —How I retired my own live bot, then learned it was worse than the record showed
  • —The reconciliation audit that caught a false claim in my own research log
  • —The one-page Strategy Passport system — the template ships in the PDF

Who it's for

You're trying to get into algo trading and you've noticed the pattern: every backtest looks great until real money touches it. You don't need another indicator. You need the process that separates “looks profitable” from “survives contact” — and the discipline to kill what doesn't.

Who it's NOT for: anyone looking for signals, guaranteed returns, or a bot to buy. There are no profit promises here. That's the point.

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One PDF now, a short series on how the killing system works, then occasional research notes. Unsubscribe anytime. No signals, no spam.

About

I build and run a quantitative forex research operation — live paper-trading bots, a six-year spread-modeled backtest engine, and a governance system with a formal kill discipline. I publish the failures because that's where the education is.

The name “Rhyme Blueprint” comes from the old line: history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Markets don't replay the same setup twice — they echo the same failure patterns in new shapes. The strategies in the kill list all died to variations on the same handful of rhymes. Learn to hear them and you kill bad ideas faster than the market kills your account.