🚀【1,000U API Real Trading Challenge: Day 7 Return to the Starting Line】

Trading is like breathing; in and out.
These days I've been busy with real life, while the API bot fights alone in the market. The account experienced a roller coaster, dropping from 1,018U back to 1,000 USDT.
Does it hurt to see profits being given back? Honestly, yes.
But that’s the meaning of a quantitative experiment: accepting the imperfection of the system.
In the past few days, ETH has been extremely volatile, with multiple "false breakouts upward followed by quick pullbacks," leading to trend strategy wear due to frequent switching.
"Back to 1,000U means the experiment restarts."
No adding positions, no emotional trading. Returning to the starting point actually allows me to calmly fine-tune the API parameters. Data doesn’t lie; see you in the second half.
📍 Current progress: 1,000 / 1,000 U
Water level steady, fighting spirit intact.
$ETH ‌📉 Market review: Why did profits get given back these days?
These days (4/21 - 4/23), the ETH market has been very "mind-boggling," mainly due to three features that caused strategy wear:
1. Typical "long and short double kill" volatility
ETH has undergone multiple unanticipated rapid switches between $2,300 and $2,380.
• Cause of wear: For trend-based APIs, this kind of market is the deadliest. When it detects a breakout signal to go long, the market immediately reverses downward, triggering stop-loss; when it reverses to short, the market quickly pulls back. This "slap in the face" market is the main source of 18U wear.
2. "False signals" caused by macro uncertainty
Recent geopolitical noise has been recurring. Sometimes the situation cools down, sometimes minor friction appears.
• Market reaction: Funds are extremely sensitive in this environment, leading to frequent "golden cross followed by death cross" false signals in technical indicators (like MACD or KDJ). The API bot operates based on data, and in environments with distorted data, drawdowns are a normal system cost.
3. "Prelude to trend reversal" after volatility contraction
Although the market is fluctuating up and down, overall trading volume is actually shrinking.
• Market observation: This kind of "volume-contracted oscillation" usually indicates the market is gathering strength. Returning to 1,000U may seem like neither profit nor loss, but it actually preserves the principal. Compared to manual traders who "fudge" during such conditions and end up liquidated, your API executing stop-loss and preserving capital has already outperformed most people.