Welcome back to Day 3 of the Passing the Prop Firm Challenge masterclass.
If you watched Days 1 and 2, you know we aren’t just throwing random indicators at a chart and hoping for the best. We are building systems designed to survive. Today, I am sharing a critical upgrade to our workflow that separates the lucky traders from the funded ones: The Tweaked Strategy Quant Custom Project.
Most algo traders fail a challenge because their strategies are “curve-fitted”—they look perfect on past data but fall apart in live market conditions. To fix this, I have modified the standard custom project in Strategy Quant to be ruthless with its validation.
The “Silver & EURUSD” Litmus Test In this video, I break down exactly how I’ve added a mandatory retest phase using Silver (XAGUSD) and EURUSD.
Why these two?
- EURUSD: It’s the baseline for liquidity. If your logic doesn’t hold up here, it’s likely a fluke.
- Silver: It moves differently than Forex pairs. It validates that your strategy captures real market physics, not just noise.
By forcing our strategies to survive on these unrelated markets before we even consider trading them, we filter out the weak algorithms that would otherwise blow up your prop firm account during the verification phase.
What You Get in This Update:
- A walkthrough of the new Custom Project settings.
- The exact logic behind the Multi-Market Retest.
- Download: The actual
.sqxcustom project file to import directly into your software.