📊 Numbers Often Tell the Story Better Than Words.
Let's take a look at the 10 most copied strategies on RoboForex.
The figures shown are based on the last three months and are publicly available on RoboForex. Anyone can verify them independently.
A clear pattern emerges:
2 strategies have experienced drawdowns of more than 90%, leaving them virtually wiped out.
3 additional strategies have relatively moderate drawdowns but still generated negative returns over the past three months.
2 strategies achieved impressive returns, but only by accepting drawdowns of more than 40% and even over 65%.
That leaves only a handful of strategies with both positive performance and reasonable risk.
However, one of those strategies is still down more than 40% over the last six months.
In our view, that leaves only one strategy among the ten most copied that currently offers a risk-to-reward profile comparable to Phoenix7.
Of course, every investor has to decide for themselves how much risk they are willing to take.
For us, returns alone are never enough. What truly matters is the relationship between return and risk.
A strategy delivering +15% with a 3% drawdown is, in our opinion, far more attractive over the long term than one delivering +60% with a 65% drawdown.
Large drawdowns are not just psychologically difficult—they also become mathematically harder to recover from. For example:
A 50% loss requires a 100% gain just to break even.
A 90% loss requires a staggering 900% gain to recover.
That is exactly why capital preservation comes first at Phoenix7.
We're not trying to produce spectacular equity curves at any cost.
Our goal is to build strategies that can still be trading successfully five or even ten years from now.
Sustainability will always outperform short-term hype.
Your FollowTheLeader Team
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