Fadepool runs a population of retail-style trading strategies —
the entries retail traders actually use, wrapped in the psychology they actually
trade with (take profits early, let losers run, add to losers) — live on real FX
data. It records every signal those strategies generate and studies, statistically,
when it pays to take the other side of them, and when it pays to join them.
forward test running– strategies– FX pairs · – timeframes
Re-armed October 6, 2026 — third live cycle, opponent-conditioned.
The matrix now conditions every state on the strategy's own trailing record. A
retroactive test over 463,802 resolved outcomes confirmed the thesis the project started
with: extreme winning streaks mean-revert and deep losing streaks persist — fading a
martingale on a hot streak measured −2.2 pips forward over 98,687 visits. Live execution
resumed under the strictest rules yet: fade-direction only, 1h/4h horizons only (the
24-hour tier stays demo-only), no position held into a weekend, fixed 100-unit size.
Qualification was seeded by re-scoring the full two-month forward record with each
strategy's point-in-time trailing state — no price data was re-simulated, but the
conditioning thresholds were calibrated on that same history, a bias the walk-forward
and per-day gates only partly remove. The live book stays small while fresh forward
data confirms or retires each cell.
Live execution paused September 16, 2026 — second live cycle closed.
The overlay executor traded live September 9–16 on fade-direction cells only: 73 trades,
34% win rate, −5.3% on the account. The failure was specific and measurable: every
1-minute / 24-hour-horizon cell realized 25–50 pips below its measured edge, while
4-hour-horizon cells tracked their measurements. The 24-hour tier counts overlapping
visits as independent evidence — the same flaw that ended the August cycle — and it is
being removed from live eligibility before any re-arm. Demo signals and the measurement
matrix continue uninterrupted. Every number on this page remains forward-tested
only: it accrues after the strategies go live, on live data. No backtests are
published here, and none ever will be.
Forward record
accruing live since … · updates hourly · results in pips; fills at live bid/ask so spread is included; overnight financing not yet modeled
three layers, each proven before the next is trusted
01 · DATA
Verified live feed
Two independent price feeds are compared minute-by-minute; any divergence
beyond an adaptive threshold is logged permanently. Nothing triggers on
unverified data.
02 · SIGNALS
A synthetic retail crowd
Hundreds of strategy instances — classic retail entries crossed with
retail position-management psychology, each bound to its own pair and
timeframe — run live and record every entry, add-to-loser and exit.
03 · EDGE
Statistical timing
The research question: at what point in a strategy's drawdown or run-up is
it profitable to fade it — or follow it? Every candidate edge must prove
itself forward, net of costs, before a cent trades on it.
Live execution status: not armed
Real-money execution stays off until the forward record demonstrates a
conditional edge with adequate sample size. When armed, it trades micro
positions (100 units) — a real-fill implementation check, not a performance
claim. Retail-positioning data is tracked as a separate, attributable input so
each driver's contribution is measured in isolation.