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 526 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) 1.0 526 526 0 0.00% $131.5 $0 $-131.5 -100.0% $-131.5
Pickstics Empirical Follower (10-Draw Chase - Top 5 Portfolio) 1.0 526 526 0 0.00% $131.5 $0 $-131.5 -100.0% $-131.5
Cici's Rules Engine (10-Draw Chase · All Candidates) 8.0 732 5,856 9 0.15% $1,464 $1,687.5 $223.5 15.3% $-256
Cici's Rules Engine (10-Draw Chase · Top 1) 1.0 732 732 1 0.14% $183 $187.5 $4.5 2.5% $-90
Carryover Mixed-Parity · Rapid 3-Draw Pipeline 1.2 732 884 2 0.23% $221 $187.5 $-33.5 -15.2% $-139
Carryover Mixed-Parity · Rolling 10-Draw Pipeline 1.5 732 1,122 3 0.27% $280.5 $281.25 $0.75 0.3% $-89.75
Pickstics Empirical Follower · Rolling 10-Draw Pipeline 2.4 677 1,616 1 0.06% $404 $93.75 $-310.25 -76.8% $-310.25
Cici's Rules Engine 8.0 732 5,856 11 0.19% $1,464 $1,875 $411 28.1% $-245
Followed-By (empirical top 5) 1.0 165 165 0 0.00% $41.25 $0 $-41.25 -100.0% $-41.25
Hot Families (top 10) 10.0 732 7,320 17 0.23% $1,830 $1,593.75 $-236.25 -12.9% $-380
Cold/Due Families (bottom 10) 10.0 732 7,320 3 0.04% $1,830 $1,312.5 $-517.5 -28.3% $-915
Hot doubles (top 18) 18.0 732 13,176 22 0.17% $3,294 $4,125 $831 25.2% $-526.5
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 12 0.16% $1,830 $1,593.75 $-236.25 -12.9% $-747.5
Carryover Overdue (top 10) 10.0 732 7,320 12 0.16% $1,830 $1,593.75 $-236.25 -12.9% $-747.5
Carryover Mixed-Parity Momentum (top 10) 10.0 732 7,320 7 0.10% $1,830 $656.25 $-1,173.75 -64.1% $-1,173.75
Profit Persisters (top 18, 1y window) 18.0 732 13,176 16 0.12% $3,294 $3,281.25 $-12.75 -0.4% $-876.75
Profit Persisters (top 18, 2y window) 18.0 732 13,176 16 0.12% $3,294 $3,562.5 $268.5 8.2% $-455.25
Profit Leaders (top 10, 90d window) 10.0 732 7,320 3 0.04% $1,830 $1,500 $-330 -18.0% $-1,055
Profit Leaders (top 10, 180d window) 10.0 732 7,320 4 0.05% $1,830 $1,125 $-705 -38.5% $-872.5
Calendar Year Top-5 5.0 732 3,660 8 0.22% $915 $750 $-165 -18.0% $-401.25
Baseline: All 252 Distinct Boxes 210.0 732 153,720 356 0.23% $38,430 $33,375 $-5,055 -13.2% $-5,055
Consensus Panel 8.6 732 6,290 11 0.17% $1,572.5 $1,406.25 $-166.25 -10.6% $-700.25
Window summary. 6 of 23 strategies finished positive in this window. · Highest Capital ROI: Cici's Rules Engine (+28.1% ROI, net +$411.00)
Top Net Dollars: Hot doubles (top 18) +$831.00 · Cici's Rules Engine +$411.00 · Profit Persisters (top 18, 2y window) +$268.50

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)
Hot Families (top 10) -$10 -$226 -$25 -$373 +$53 +$4 +$1,058 5/12
Profit Leaders (top 10, 90d window) -$10 +$55 +$725 -$185 -$323 +$566 +$401 3/12
Cold/Due Families (bottom 10) -$10 +$243 -$213 -$373 -$885 -$465 -$68 3/12
Calendar Year Top-5 -$5 -$66 -$106 -$374 +$308 -$45 -$128 5/12
Hot doubles (top 18) -$18 -$14 +$1,043 +$905 -$506 -$612 -$197 5/12
Followed-By (empirical top 5) -$1 -$50 -$96 -$188 -$126 -$195 -$208 0/12
Cici's Rules Engine -$8 -$248 -$512 -$175 -$520 -$326 -$641 4/12
Carryover Overdue (top 10) -$10 -$226 -$494 -$748 -$416 -$1,121 -$1,286 2/12
Profit Leaders (top 10, 180d window) -$10 +$55 -$213 -$560 -$1,073 -$1,965 -$1,380 4/12
Overdue 10 (gap vs expectation) -$10 -$226 -$494 -$748 -$229 -$1,215 -$1,568 2/12
Consensus Panel -$10 -$209 -$411 -$711 -$544 -$1,486 -$1,598 1/12
Profit Persisters (top 18, 2y window) -$18 +$362 +$11 +$530 -$881 -$2,487 -$1,978 6/12
Carryover Mixed-Parity Momentum (top 10) -$10 -$226 -$494 -$1,123 -$1,729 -$1,684 -$1,999 0/12
Profit Persisters (top 18, 1y window) -$18 +$80 +$11 +$61 -$1,162 -$2,862 -$2,353 4/12
Pure Matches: 10 Quads -$4,455 0/0
Baseline: All 252 Distinct Boxes -$23 -$814 -$2,306 -$4,448 -$8,741 -$13,046 -$15,761 1/12