Less is a system
One strategy, two pairs, one trade a day. Every extra variable is a place where you can cheat.
About
The Monogram
My name is David Žalman. The Monogram is a personal brand — the DZ in the logo means I sign every entry in the journal myself.
Not a guru. An engineer who built his own tool.
By day I manage automotive programs — projects, deadlines, decisions under pressure. In the London session each morning I trade one system on a live account and record every trade. I approach trading the way I approach engineering: define the rules, code them, measure the outcome, version the changes. That's why MODEL-1 exists — not because I set out to sell an indicator, but because a rule that lives only in your head isn't a rule, it's an intention. On the chart it can be followed; in your head it can't.
Think in probabilities
The journal doesn't lie
Memory embellishes, a screenshot doesn't. That's why the journal is an app with a database, not a notebook that can get lost.
Transparency over promises
The backtest is labelled as a backtest, live trades grow one by one. I promise no profits — I show a process.