Bot scorecard
How the bot did, month by month
One scorecard a month, built from the trade log by the same script so the months line up. Each one opens with what went well, then covers what held the bot back, and ends with what I'm watching next.
September 2026
In progressThe September 2026 scorecard publishes on 1 October, once the month's trades are in.
Due
August 2026
Coming soonThe August 2026 scorecard is being written in the same format and will be added here.
Soon
July 2026
Coming soonThe July 2026 scorecard is being written in the same format and will be added here.
Soon
June 2026
Coming soonThe June 2026 scorecard is being written in the same format and will be added here.
Soon
May 2026
Trading bot scorecard: May 2026May 2026: my bot's main strategy won back slightly more than it lost, before charges, and paper trading agreed. One trade in a new strategy cost the month.
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April 2026
Coming soonThe April 2026 scorecard is being written in the same format and will be added here.
Soon
How to read a scorecard
Live and paper trades are always shown separately. Figures are counts and ratios from the log, before brokerage and taxes. The scorecards don't give rupee profit or return percentages, and nothing in them is a suggestion to trade.
- Trade record
- One line in the trade log. A partial exit is logged as its own record, so records can outnumber trades.
- Win rate
- Winning records divided by all records with a result.
- Payoff ratio
- The average winning record divided by the average losing record. With a 55% win rate, break-even needs a payoff of about 0.83.
- Profit factor
- Everything the winners made divided by everything the losers lost. Above 1 means the wins outweighed the losses.
- Average losses
- The unit used instead of rupees: results are divided by the month's average losing record. +1.0 means one average loss won back.
- Drawdown
- The deepest fall in the running total from its previous high, in average losses.
- Main strategy
- The strategy with the most live records that month. Everything else is grouped as other live strategies.