343: How He Automated His Way to 3,500 Trades a Year w/ Dave Mabe

Automating and "scaling wide" across many uncorrelated, code-verified strategies—rather than sizing up one—removed Mabe's manual trading ceiling entirely.

• Backtest beat discretion: Dave Mabe's first-ever backtest of his gap-and-go strategy outperformed years of discretionary trading, proving his 'intuition' was codifiable.
• Scaling wide, not up: Automation let him grow from 350 manual trades one year to 3,500 the next by shrinking timeframes (30-min to 15-min bars) and running ~25 uncorrelated strategies rather than increasing position size.

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