My Intraday Trading Results with Compounding
Did this experiment till end of August. Result sheet is attached at bottom. Approx 60 percent returns were generated by trading both USDINR and NIFTY Futures intraday using same capital and fixed 3 percent risk of capital per trade. Currently working on trading for a living experiment.
This is my personal Intraday Trading Results. It is an experiment with compounding that I have just started on 6th April 2020. Position Size calculated based on the compounded amount, and changes after every trade.

Coming back to the system. Below are the characteristics.
- Its an intraday trend following breakout system.
- At max it produces 2 trades per day.
- The system uses 5 mins chart for intraday trading.
- Exit is by Stop Loss and Trailing Stop Loss. There are no target based exits.
- We add or subtract profit or loss after every trade to base amount. This helps us in compounding the system for optimal return.
- Risk is based on capital at the beginning of trade and changes with every trade.
- Instrument used to trade is Nifty Near Expiry Futures.
- I update the sheet every day after end of trade or sometimes later.
- Risk is 3 percent of capital in every trade.
- This is a 100 percent mechanical system.
- Entries as well as exits both use Stop Loss Market orders.
I am not sure how far this system will be able to compound to and I also have no idea at what point intraday futures start having liquidity problems. The monthly gains sheet is accumulated percentage gain at the end of month expiry. The months represent instruments futures expiry and not actual month.
P.S: Rows are marked with yellow background whenever a new equity high is created.
The sheet goes intraday nifty futures.
Hi Manish, in today’s first Nifty entry of buy at 10863, i see the ST but the cross over had not happened and it was at the fag end of yesterday do we still consider that. Should we not wait for the ST, cross over and day’s high all to allign on the same day. Appreciate your clarification….Thanks
The rules that we create are rules for ourselves not for the market like I always try to point out. So we should stick to what makes sense to us. And like I’ve mentioned this system is not the same as supertrend, ema crossover system. This is a much simpler system of breakout with ATR used for position sizing and trailing stop loss
Ah ok,i get it…is your USDINR pair as per the ST ema crossover system
No both use simple breakout with ATR trailing stops.
Sure thanks