MabeKit by Dave Mabe

Max losses are killing my profits!

I'm getting absolutely crushed with max losses. The difference between what I'm up and how much I would be up without max losses has reached truly insane numbers and many multiples of what was normal.

— Frustrated trader BEFORE using MabeKit

I have never been this consistent before!

Dave helped me get really systematic with my daily approach to trading. This was a true path that worked for me. I have never been this consistent... in my 4-5 years of trading.

— Satisfied trader AFTER using MabeKit

The Cruncher in MabeKit is like my magic wand. On day one, it told me to the position lifetime range if it's under a certain amount and it's damn near 90% win rate. That trade has happened 30 times and I think I've only lost once. That's what built my account. I was just like holy sh*t, dude, you know? So that's what got me in love with the Cruncher.

It's paid for its membership for a few years.

— David Duong

Below are my before and after equity curves for this strategy and as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. A profit increase of $30,000 on a $77,000 strategy = WOW. And, the drawdown is also much nicer.

— Steve Knapp, after using MabeKit

The more I use the MabeKit Strategy Cruncher, the more I realize the concept is a magic wand.

Here's a strategy I was testing: first backtest had a winrate of about 30%, profit factor around 0.8 and total trades about 80K, profit=-100k.

Previously, without the Cruncher I would abandon such a strategy and test something else.

But with the Cruncher, and seeing that the strategy had many trades, I could gradually pick the good subset until the Profit Factor was around 1.7.

MabeKit is the magic piece that gives the man on the street a little hedge fund capability.

— Mugu M.

The sooner you get started, the closer you are to profitability. I wish I had started working with Dave years ago, as I would have become profitable much faster.

— Elvis L.

Dave’s feedback has gotten me to a place where I am making constant progress on my trading, something I wasn’t able to do alone. That has been invaluable and I wholeheartedly recommend MabeKit for anyone looking to take their trading to another level.

— Finith J.

My goal has always been fully automated trading with as little manual intervention as possible. Access to the MabeKit columns has been a game-changer. More columns plus faster optimization with the Cruncher has meaningfully accelerated how I develop and validate strategies.

I also want to mention that your AmiBroker template has been really valuable. I had a working template before that paired well with Claude for development, but yours connected the dots between live trading and backtesting in a way mine didn't.

— Nash

After purchasing MabeKit, I found that it definitely helps increase confidence in my strategies. Knowing that there are favorable odds behind a strategy makes a huge difference psychologically.

It allows me to know if an idea truly has an edge before committing to it live and saving significant time. Understanding key metrics like profit factor, win rate, strategy annual return, and the time of day the strategy works—especially when applied back into Trade-Ideas with real examples has been invaluable.

MabeKit truly enhances strategic confidence and decision-making, making the whole trading process feel much more informed.

Thanks for creating such a useful product!

— Gavin K.

The MabeKit column library is absolutely essential for using RealTest. It has a dual purpose: it immediately provides columns whose predictive value the Cruncher can identify, and it also serves as inspiration for adding new columns (both conceptually and in terms of the actual code).

Practically speaking, without MabeKit, creating a functional strategy would have taken me months of work.

— Fabrizio A.

On the MabeKit Strategy Generator - it’s been awesome. As someone who’s really not a natural coder, I’ve spent a lot of time feeling frustrated and tangled up in spaghetti logic—especially when trying to brute-force things with ChatGPT. Today felt like a real breakthrough.

I was able to build two strategies end-to-end and get them running in AmiBroker. On the first one, I successfully added custom columns and produced a clean backtest with a solid sample size, enough data to confidently run through the Strategy Cruncher. I’m about to load the data into the second strategy next, but I wanted to pause and acknowledge how big this moment feels.

Thanks for building MabeKit, Dave. It’s a huge help and genuinely feels like a step-change in how I’m approaching this.

— Mike A.

Mabekit was a big enabler for me to backtest in Trade-Ideas. I've built my strategy with the Cruncher and my custom Trade-Ideas columns.

As a result of getting the MabeKit, I have formalized my trading process and gained a clear focus on which issues I need to solve next to create working strategies.

I would recommend MabeKit to traders who are struggling.

— Marek

The info on order types alone is something I’ve never found better advice about anywhere else. Of course, having the former CTO of the best scanner available, combined with a real-life trader to help me, is invaluable.

— 7-figure trader (name withheld by request)

I updated my journal this morning, and I can't stop smiling. Good start to the month without having need to check news, check on futures, etc.

As I type this, the S&P down 8% YTD, my small hedge fund powered by MabeKit is up +38%.

— Elvis L.

As someone relatively new to trading without a strong quant background, I initially struggled to build and refine a profitable strategy. That changed when I started using Dave’s MabeKit.

First, instead of being limited to the few trade filters I knew, MabeKit introduced me to a much broader range of columns — many I wouldn’t have even considered. Second, rather than manually testing different filters and settings in a slow, iterative process, the Cruncher quickly identifies the optimal filters in just seconds.

MabeKit has completely transformed my trading experience. It has made trading more accessible, significantly less time-consuming, and much more enjoyable—all while improving my results.

— Brandon C.

The MabeKit Trade Client has been a game changer for my workflow. The automatic short locate and execution is my favorite feature, and I also rely heavily on built-in stop losses, profit targets, and duplicate symbol protection across strategies.

There really isn’t another accessible automation tool for DAS, and the Trade-Ideas integration is huge. The UI is simple, the logging and debugging tools are incredibly useful, and the execution speed is lightning fast — so I can focus on optimizing my strategies instead of worrying about the automation.

— Ishmeet S.

Once I got MabeKit, I found it is the most efficient way to optimize strategies and very different from every other method that you will find anywhere else.

In just minutes, I uploaded my strategy to the Strategy Cruncher and it suggested a few filters. I plugged them in, ran the backtest and WOW! A 20% improvement in total profit, and with another, significant reduction in drawdown. I recommend this for anyone truly serious about optimizing strategies. There's a learning curve, but it is worth the effort. I'm a hobby coder only, not a professional in any way and I have a more than full time profession. If I can do it, anybody with a little bit of drive can.

— Matt H.

Long-term success as a trader requires not only having an edge, but continually honing that edge. Dave has been a great resource to traders looking to sharpen their edge with tested strategies and improvements.

— Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D., Trading Psychologist

Your talk about building confidence to trade full size came at the perfect time. I’d been stuck taking small positions without really thinking about what it would take to size up. It made me start thinking in terms of actual metrics — drawdown, profit factor, equitiy curves — and what I’d need to see to feel confident trading real size.

— Andrew K.

I attended your presentation at Interactive Brokers and I followed your advice on a new strategy in RealTest and got valuable information from it. I was able to add a few columns to my backtest and improve my strategy. Thank you for your selfless work for the systematic trader community!

— Gerard T.

Reading your emails and thinking what was wrong and thinking about it, I finally understood:

1. I understood how to select, use and play with filters to find suitable combinations to get right alerts
2. I understood that I did very poor backtesting and got frustrated with bad results and didn't have ideas how to use it properly
3. In your series I discovered the optimization part, how to add columns with different signals and parameters and see the impact on profit, even very small changes with huge impact.

— Michael

I couldn't sleep a wink last night because all I could think about was how I was going to make my strategy so much more profitable!

— Elvis L.

Just a note to say MabeKit is sooooo good! It's going to make me a lot of money!

— Leo M.