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 Z. The Monogram is a personal brand — the DZ in the logo means I sign every entry in the journal myself.
The road to one model
By day I manage automotive programs — projects, deadlines, decisions under pressure. By night I hunt liquidity sweeps. I've held bitcoin since before it was cool. I approach trading the way I approach engineering: hypothesis, data, records. That's why Model 1 has a backtest on fourteen years of data behind it, why every trade ends up in the journal — and why I'm building the trading journal I wish I had when I started.
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.