Week in Review
A losing week — and we report those just as openly as the winning ones. The NAS100 sold off through the week, and the single trade the bot took ended in a stop-out. Here is the full picture of the week versus simply buying and holding.
Nas100Bot Performance This Week
- Total trades: 1
- Profit: -4.5%
- Win rate: 0%
- Max drawdown: 4.5%
One trade taken under the strategy's rules, and it hit its hard stop loss — a -4.5% week with the drawdown matching the loss exactly, since the position was closed at its predefined risk level. No revenge trading, no oversized recovery attempts: the system did what it was designed to do when a setup fails.
Market Performance: Buy & Hold
Buying and holding the NAS100 over the same period returned -2.65% with a maximum drawdown of 3.25%. This week the market's passive loss was smaller than the bot's active loss — that happens in trend-following systems during choppy or sharply adverse conditions, and it is precisely why position sizing matters more than any single week's result.
Return vs Drawdown
This week: -4.5% return with a 4.5% drawdown for the bot, versus -2.65% return with a 3.25% drawdown for buy and hold. The loss stayed inside the strategy's planned maximum risk — the stop loss did its job by capping the damage on a failed setup instead of letting it run.
The Bigger Picture
Losing weeks are part of every systematic strategy. What matters is the long-term record: the year-to-date return remains above +110%, built across both winning and losing weeks. Trend following pays unevenly — small controlled losses like this one are the cost of catching the large trends that drive the yearly results.
How to Follow Along
We publish these weekly recaps — wins and losses alike — so you can see real, verifiable results from the same strategy you can download for free. Backtest it yourself on your own brokerage account, check the pricing page, or follow the setup guide to get started.
Past performance is not indicative of future results. Trading involves risk.