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I built a rules-based swing trading system and decided to make the results public

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Aug 24, 2026 · 23:32

I got sick of trading tools that parade winning setups but never show what actually happened after the fact.

So I built my own tracker.

It’s a mechanical system for US equities, it scans for breakout/pullback rules, checks broad market regime, and records entry + stop when a signal fires. Then it auto-tracks every trade to exit.

No auto-execution, no "AI magic," and no deleting the losers.

Since July, it’s logged 147 signals and 95 closed trades across two strategies. The closed stats look good honestly, a bit too good, which is why I'm trying not to get ahead of myself. It’s still a tiny sample size, and the backtests have clear limitations.

The goal is simple: can a swing-trading process be transparent enough that anyone can audit the forward performance live, without relying on cherry-picked Twitter screenshots?

The full methodology, live journal, and list of flaws are up at **swingterminal.com**.

Tear it apart, especially if you trade systematic/rules-based strategies. What obvious blind spots am I missing?