Quantitative Trading Journal.

Dedication.

Persistence.

JOURNEY TO 1000x

A site dedicated to traders in their journey into quantitative analysis, strategy refinement, bot building, and machine learning.

This site is a collaborative effort, blending Jay K-xs’s expertise with AI-sourced insights from the K-xs trading community.

  • Self Review 2025/09 – BTC Demo Trading !

    I took a solid 4 month break and have been taking some demo position trades evaluating some crypto trading platforms. In Canada, regulation has crippled our access to the markets – you can trade spot but essentially all derivatives are “cancelled” in Canada. You’d have to go no a no KYC exchange with a VPN (continued)

  • You Enter Too Fast and Exit TOo Slow

    Drafted with Claude 4 Sonnet. I heard someone say the phrase: “You enter too fast and exit too slow.” It’s been banging around in my head as I’ve been watching the markets on high timeframes to see if I can make good decisions. Much like in day trading, eventually you see something way too clear, (continued)

  • Why I’m Going to Stop Day trading

    The idea from the start of this journey was to learn by direct experience so that I would understand how a trader thinks and sees the world. I needed to be a trader to get that. And now I have it – it’s time to stop. I learned a lot more life lessons than I (continued)

  • self review: shifting conditions and the playbook

    i had a couple rough days I couldn’t get trades to stick playing the open 5m trade but there was a lack of LoB imbalance with all of the uncertainty and it just resulted in big trades that did not work at all. I’ve been sick and trying to organize a move so my psychology (continued)