How Our Trading Systems Work
A detailed look at the philosophy, mechanics, and optimal conditions for YMI's automated trading systems. This isn't one strategy — it's multiple tools for different market regimes.
Here's what most traders never realize: day trading is far noisier and more inconsistent than it appears. Most strategies that look great on paper don't hold up to lower timeframes over time.
"He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass."
— Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates
Ray Dalio, founder of the world's largest hedge fund, has documented that most trading edges dissipate within a 3-4 year horizon. Markets evolve, participants adapt, and what worked yesterday stops working tomorrow. This is why Bridgewater spends hundreds of millions on research — and still acknowledges how difficult it is to maintain an edge.
The Average Trader
- • Makes emotional decisions under duress
- • Follows the crowd (buys high, sells low)
- • Uses static strategies that decay over time
- • Reacts to information already priced in
The Systematic Trader
- • Removes emotion from execution
- • Uses multiple uncorrelated strategies
- • Adapts tools to market conditions
- • Lets systems execute without hesitation
That's why we built customizable automated trading bots — not one magic strategy, but a complementary set of tools that work in different market environments, with specific settings provided to help you succeed from the first day you get started.
Markets don't behave the same way every day. Some sessions trend hard in one direction. Others chop back and forth around a mean. Forcing a single strategy to work in both environments is a losing proposition.
Marty — For Consolidating Markets
When price oscillates around a mean and breakouts fail, Marty captures profit from the natural variance. Perfect for choppy, range-bound sessions.
KPL — For Expanding Markets
When volatility is elevated and price travels meaningful distances, KPL systems hunt expansion moves into statistically significant price zones.
Deploy the right tool for the right environment — that's how systematic traders stay consistent.
Marty
Variance Capture & Loss Recovery System
Marty is a configurable trading bot whose primary entry condition is a candle closing above or below a user-defined moving average during a specific time window.
But the entry logic isn't the edge. Marty's real strength is its position sizing and loss recovery framework.
- Starting contract size configuration
- Profit targets (fixed or ratio-based)
- Stop losses (fixed or ratio-based)
- Trail entries and trail stops
- Dynamic target-to-stop linking
- Maximum losses per session cap
- Maximum wins per session cap
- Maximum bet increases limit
- Maximum contracts ceiling
- Economic event filters
Marty includes a progressive sizing engine using configurable multipliers. After a losing trade, position size can increase based on a predefined factor, allowing the system to recover losses by capturing normal intraday variance rather than requiring perfect directional accuracy.
The Logic: Instead of needing to be right on direction, Marty needs price to move enough to capture a winning trade that offsets prior losses. In choppy markets with regular variance, this happens consistently.
Steady Gains
A Specific Marty Configuration
Steady Gains is NOT a separate bot.
It's a highly constrained, fixed configuration of Marty's parameters that has been refined over time and validated extensively through backtesting and live trading.
Track Record
- • 6+ years of backtesting data
- • 2+ years of live trading validation
- • Zero losing days in recorded history
Works On Many Account Types
- • Validated on Apex 150k and 250k accounts
- • Works within typical prop firm drawdown limits
- • Scalable position sizing for different account sizes
How it achieves consistency: Instead of stopping out after a predefined max loss, the system continues trading with increased size until it captures a winning trade that offsets prior losses. Trading simplicity combined with progressive sizing creates statistical certainty over time.
Cumulative net profit curve from January 1, 2025 to December 16, 2025. Note the consistent upward trajectory with minimal drawdowns.
Trade Statistics
- • Profit Factor: 1.57
- • Avg Winning Trade: $203.58
- • Avg Losing Trade: $196.94
- • Max Consecutive Winners: 9
Risk Metrics
- • Max Drawdown: $3,928
- • Longest Flat Period: 3.97 days
- • Max Time to Recover: 3.31 days
- • Avg Time in Trade: 125.5 min
Key Price Levels (KPL)
Algorithmic Expected Excursion Forecasting
KPLs are proprietary, algorithmically derived price levels that forecast expected maximum excursion for the upcoming trading session.
Important distinction: These are NOT traditional support and resistance levels. They are NOT static pivots. KPLs are generated by an internal model that estimates where price is statistically likely to expand during Globex and regular trading hours.
Expected maximum upward excursion during regular trading hours
Expected maximum upward excursion during overnight/Globex session
Expected maximum downward excursion during overnight/Globex session
Expected maximum downward excursion during regular trading hours
The KPL Bot trades custom price levels including algorithmically derived KPLs, classic pivot levels, prior week highs/lows, and other user-defined reference prices.
Key Features:
- Each level tradeable independently (long or short)
- Fully customizable buffer zones around each level
- Independent targets and stop losses per level
- Configurable for trend-following, mean-reversion, or hybrid approaches
Time-Aware Stop Loss Buffer
One of the KPL bot's most unique features: the stop loss zone can slope over time, making time itself a variable in the trade. This allows price to temporarily violate a level without immediately invalidating the trade — something not found in conventional trading systems.
KPLs are designed to perform best in higher volatility market regimes, where sufficient price movement exists for excursions to be reached or rejected.
When volatility is elevated, KPLs can produce outsized returns due to large directional moves into statistically significant zones. In low-volatility environments, price may not travel far enough to reach the projected levels.
Traditional KPLs
Session open, upside/downside levels for both regular hours and after-hours
ML Predictions
Quantile Forest model generates additional price targets with probability weighting
Session First Touch
Historical probabilities of price touching high vs low first — helps with directional bias
System Comparison
| Aspect | Marty / Steady Gains | KPL Systems |
|---|---|---|
| Entry Logic | Moving average crosses in time window | Price reaching algorithmic levels |
| Core Edge | Progressive sizing & loss recovery | Expected excursion forecasting |
| Best Market Regime | Choppy, consolidating, mean-reverting | Volatile, trending, expanding |
| Unique Feature | Martingale-style recovery | Time-aware stop buffers |
| Philosophy | "Eat variance in the chop" | "Hunt expansion in the move" |
Marty and the KPL bot are not competing systems. They're complementary.
Marty captures profit from
Stochastic noise and variance in consolidating markets
KPL bots capture profit from
Price expansion and volatility in trending or fast markets
Steady Gains
A specialized Marty configuration designed for maximum consistency — zero losing days across years of testing
Together, these systems allow traders to deploy the right tool for the right market environment instead of forcing a single strategy to work everywhere.
AI Trading Intelligence Tools
Our bots are just the execution layer. Behind them is a complete AI intelligence system that analyzes markets, detects regimes, and guides your trading decisions.
Daily Trading Dashboard
Every session, you get a complete market analysis delivered automatically:
- • Regime Analysis — Current market phase and volatility
- • TTM Squeeze Status — Compression vs expansion detection
- • Strategy Recommendation — Marty vs KPL based on conditions
- • Position Sizing Guidance — Scale based on confidence
- • Market Notes — Key alerts like NR7 compression
Real-Time Regime Alerts
When market conditions shift, you know immediately:
- • Regime Detection — Bull/Bear × High-Vol/Low-Vol matrix
- • Recommended Action — Safe to trade or stay out
- • Visual Chart — See the regime shift with marked zones
- • Trend Analysis — Direction + volatility state
Never trade the wrong strategy for the market environment again.
$7,353 in His First 2 Weeks
"In my first 2 weeks of trading, Marty has been super consistent. Haven't had any red days yet and $7k in two weeks is honestly awesome."
Rob
New Member • Started September 2025
$7,353
2-Week Profit
2.67
Profit Factor
0
Red Days
Step-by-Step Installation
Detailed instructions walk you through installing bots on your computer. No technical expertise required.
Video Tutorials
Watch over-the-shoulder videos covering setup, configuration, and best practices for each system.
Ready-Made Strategy Settings
Start with the same settings other traders are using in their own accounts. Backtest and customize as you learn.
We encourage you to backtest and learn on your own — but you don't have to start from scratch. Get running immediately with proven configurations.
Ready to Trade Systematically?
All automated trading systems are available exclusively in the Pro Trader tier, along with the YMI Indicator, expanded KPLs for 11+ markets, and elite-level support.
Pro Trader: $795/month • 2 Bots + 12 Templates • All Systems Included