Speaker (Kosta Ouzas) argues traders should willingly sacrifice some upside during market rallies to preserve capital and ensure strategies survive large drawdowns. The emphasis is on robustness over short-term win frequency: many trades or fast turnover mean little if an algorithm can't withstand large price drops that can erase prior gains.
You know, we sacrifice making money on the way up to ensure that we're safe and can always make money on the way down and that's the most important thing. And when you trade and you have a strategy, you have to be willing to sacrifice certain aspects. And for us, we're happy to give away some of the profit going up because we know every strategy is good going up but when the market dumps, most strategies fail. So we're happy to layer in capital going down because for us that's the key. And, and I'll argue the point still doesn't matter if you're taking a thousand, two thousand trades a day, you know, always in and out of the market. If, if your algorithm cannot handle massive drops in price and if all of your wins can be undone on a single candle, what you're doing means nothing, right? So there needs to be kind of a focus on stop thinking so much about how many trades you're taking, the speed of which the trades are closing all.
