The question that started AVALONPLUS.
The question this project tried to answer wasn't "can a system beat the market." It was something narrower and, to me, more useful:
The honest answer required two ingredients — leveraged instruments and reinvesting — and both come with a price.
The capital dilemma
Ambitious traders with smaller accounts (≤ $10K) face a recurring problem. Stay safe with long-only and the account moves slowly enough that patience runs out and the trader reaches for too much risk anyway. Or accept high leverage from the start and risk total ruin during the first bad streak. Neither outcome compounds capital. The trader stays stuck.
What the system tries to do
AVALONPLUS is the attempt to minimize the path to ruin — minimize, not eliminate; it cannot — while keeping the door to compounding open. The signal logic is fully mechanical, the parameters are fixed, the entries and exits are rule-based. The discipline has to come from the trader. Without that last ingredient, no amount of code will help.
The strategy is not a promise. It is a documented, backtested, live-traded attempt at a problem that doesn't have a clean solution. The path will include drawdowns. Some of them will be uncomfortable. The methodology report is where every assumption, parameter, and historical drawdown is laid out.
About the developer
I'm Frank Gärtner, the developer behind AVALONPLUS — an independent software developer based in Austria, trading futures with my own capital. I built this system because I wanted to solve the dilemma above for myself first — and, honestly, to buy back more time. Long breakfasts with my wife in Austrian coffee houses. Time to play bass.
Subscribers receive the exact same signals I take in my own account, on the same instrument (MES/ES), with the same execution timing (next-bar open after the EOD signal). That's not a marketing claim — it's the reason the project exists. The full live-vs-backtest reconciliation is in the methodology report; the conflict-of-interest disclosure is in the imprint.
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If any of this resonates — or if you disagree with the premise — the contact form is open.