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Strategy deep-dives, engineering write-ups, and honest retrospectives. Written by the team that builds HIT Algo.
★ Featured · Strategy · May 4, 2026
A 12-year backtest on a single chart — what we found, what we kept, what we threw away.
Twelve years of equities data, five rejected strategy variants, and one survivor. A long write-up on what the data actually told us, with all the numbers.
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StrategyApr 28, 2026
Why momentum still works in 2026
Twelve years after the original momentum studies, the anomaly hasn't been arbitraged away. Here's why — and what changes when you systematize it.
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EngineeringApr 14, 2026
Connecting Alpaca, IBKR, MT4, and TradingView in one bot
What it takes to keep one strategy synchronized across four execution venues — fills, retries, and the long tail of edge cases.
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MarketsMar 30, 2026
Crypto vs equities: where momentum lives now
We ran the same momentum logic across BTC, ETH, SPY, and QQQ over five years. The results are not what you'd expect.
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Behind the scenesMar 18, 2026
What we learned placing 399th out of 10,190
A retrospective on running HIT Algo through a public prop competition — what worked, what surprised us, what we'd change.
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RiskFeb 27, 2026
Position sizing for retail-sized accounts
The math behind risk-per-trade, why fixed fractional doesn't always cut it, and how HIT Algo scales positions to your equity.
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StrategyFeb 10, 2026
Backtesting honestly: avoiding the seven traps
Survivorship bias, look-ahead, overfitting, parameter drift — the traps that make backtests look amazing and live trading awful.
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