Walk-forward strategy performance

Every strategy was re-run draw by draw across the 732 archive drawings (2025-09-02 → 2026-09-02) using only prior data — no lookahead. ★ Recommended Sweet Spot: 1-Year Cycle Payout table at $0.25 per family per drawing: distinct $93.75 / double $187.50 / two-double $375.00 / triple $562.50 / quadruple $2250.00 / .

What "plays" means. One play = one $0.25 bet on one boxed family for one drawing. Total plays = families played per drawing × drawings — e.g. a strategy that plays 1 families every drawing across 732 drawings accumulates 504 plays. Every single play is settled against an actual archived drawing, and every hit is listed with its date in each strategy's detail below — nothing here is estimated or modeled.
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StrategyFamilies/drawDrawingsTotal playsHitsHit rateCostGrossNetROIMax drawdown
Pickstics Empirical Follower (10-Draw Chase - Top 1) 1.0 504 504 0 0.00% $126 $0 $-126 -100.0% $-126
Pickstics Empirical Follower (10-Draw Chase - Top 5 Portfolio) 1.0 504 520 0 0.00% $130 $0 $-130 -100.0% $-130
Cici's Rules Engine (10-Draw Chase · All Candidates) 8.0 732 5,856 9 0.15% $1,464 $1,593.75 $129.75 8.9% $-360
Cici's Rules Engine (10-Draw Chase · Top 1) 1.0 732 732 1 0.14% $183 $187.5 $4.5 2.5% $-122.5
Carryover Mixed-Parity · Rapid 3-Draw Pipeline 1.3 732 940 2 0.21% $235 $187.5 $-47.5 -20.2% $-118
Carryover Mixed-Parity · Rolling 10-Draw Pipeline 1.6 732 1,204 2 0.17% $301 $187.5 $-113.5 -37.7% $-143
Pickstics Empirical Follower · Rolling 10-Draw Pipeline 2.4 625 1,507 1 0.07% $376.75 $93.75 $-283 -75.1% $-283
Cici's Rules Engine 8.0 732 5,856 6 0.10% $1,464 $937.5 $-526.5 -36.0% $-551.75
Followed-By (empirical top 5) 1.0 154 154 0 0.00% $38.5 $0 $-38.5 -100.0% $-38.5
Hot Families (top 10) 10.0 732 7,320 19 0.26% $1,830 $1,875 $45 2.5% $-390
Cold/Due Families (bottom 10) 10.0 732 7,320 4 0.05% $1,830 $2,062.5 $232.5 12.7% $-625
Hot doubles (top 18) 18.0 732 13,176 25 0.19% $3,294 $4,687.5 $1,393.5 42.3% $-279
Pure Matches: Quads (All 10) 10.0 732 7,320 0 0.00% $1,830 $0 $-1,830 -100.0% $-1,830
Overdue 10 (gap vs expectation) 10.0 732 7,320 16 0.22% $1,830 $2,437.5 $607.5 33.2% $-226.25
Carryover Overdue (top 10) 10.0 732 7,320 12 0.16% $1,830 $1,875 $45 2.5% $-333.75
Carryover Mixed-Parity Momentum (top 10) 10.0 732 7,320 20 0.27% $1,830 $1,968.75 $138.75 7.6% $-291.25
Profit Persisters (top 18, 1y window) 18.0 732 13,176 27 0.20% $3,294 $6,468.75 $3,174.75 96.4% $-361.5
Profit Persisters (top 18, 2y window) 18.0 732 13,176 19 0.14% $3,294 $5,250 $1,956 59.4% $-426
Profit Leaders (top 10, 90d window) 10.0 732 7,320 3 0.04% $1,830 $1,125 $-705 -38.5% $-1,177.5
Profit Leaders (top 10, 180d window) 10.0 732 7,320 4 0.05% $1,830 $1,500 $-330 -18.0% $-717.5
Calendar Year Top-5 5.0 732 3,660 7 0.19% $915 $656.25 $-258.75 -28.3% $-340
Baseline: All 252 Distinct Boxes 210.0 732 153,720 351 0.23% $38,430 $32,906.25 $-5,523.75 -14.4% $-5,670
Consensus Panel 8.8 732 6,476 11 0.17% $1,619 $1,687.5 $68.5 4.2% $-409
Window summary. 11 of 23 strategies finished positive in this window. · Highest Capital ROI: Profit Persisters (top 18, 1y window) (+96.4% ROI, net +$3174.75)
Top Net Dollars: Profit Persisters (top 18, 1y window) +$3174.75 · Profit Persisters (top 18, 2y window) +$1956.00 · Hot doubles (top 18) +$1393.50

Performance matrix — net by trailing window (all strategies)

Each cell is a strategy's net over the trailing calendar window, from the full-archive run — green means the strategy made money in that window, red means it lost. The last column counts how many of the last 12 active months were profitable.

Strategy1M3M6M1Y2Y3YAll timePositive months (12)
Profit Persisters (top 18, 1y window) +$170 +$924 +$855 +$3,248 +$4,370 +$3,607 +$2,897 9/12
Profit Persisters (top 18, 2y window) +$170 +$1,112 +$1,043 +$2,217 +$2,588 +$1,826 +$1,116 8/12
Hot doubles (top 18) +$170 -$14 +$105 +$1,467 +$1,745 +$1,076 +$741 7/12
Followed-By (empirical top 5) -$3 -$35 -$78 -$177 -$125 -$115 -$128 0/12
Hot Families (top 10) -$10 -$39 -$213 +$3 -$416 -$184 -$255 4/12
Overdue 10 (gap vs expectation) -$10 -$226 +$163 +$284 +$146 -$184 -$630 7/12
Calendar Year Top-5 -$5 -$66 +$81 -$186 -$443 -$701 -$690 6/12
Carryover Mixed-Parity Momentum (top 10) -$10 +$243 +$69 +$284 -$604 -$653 -$780 6/12
Profit Leaders (top 10, 180d window) -$10 +$243 -$213 -$373 -$135 -$746 -$911 3/12
Carryover Overdue (top 10) -$10 -$226 -$25 -$279 -$323 -$840 -$1,099 6/12
Cici's Rules Engine -$6 -$59 -$399 -$426 -$1,064 -$960 -$1,166 2/12
Consensus Panel -$9 -$224 +$15 -$291 -$443 -$825 -$1,205 4/12
Profit Leaders (top 10, 90d window) -$10 +$55 -$400 -$560 -$698 -$559 -$1,474 3/12
Cold/Due Families (bottom 10) -$10 -$320 +$350 +$3 -$510 -$2,153 -$3,068 2/12
Pure Matches: 10 Quads -$6,705 0/0
Baseline: All 252 Distinct Boxes -$116 -$533 -$1,931 -$5,573 -$8,554 -$12,578 -$14,636 1/12