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85 - BBP01 - Journey vs Destination

The Trade Busters

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Theta Engine Test - Journey Versus Destination

When you're backtesting, you don't want to necessarily just focus on the output. So if we look at this Theta Engine test, we're just going to be looking at the Kager of the test with the stops. This is 11.5% Kager, mass drawdown 19%. So pretty good, more ratio. But if we flip over to the TE no stops tab, which has the other test, I mean, this curve looks very smooth. And it may be tempting to just run a bunch of tests and find the highest Kager test, right?

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