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752 - Trading Edges, Styles & Profit Factors

The Trading Coach Podcast

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Slippage Commissions and Spreads - Is Your Strategy Profitable?

If you truly have a profitable trading strategy, it should be so profitable that commissions and spreads don't make a big impact. Price should go past your entry point by the spread. Same thing with targets. If price comes close to my stop loss again, within that spread because that's how these things work in real life, I'm going to count it as a loss. So I always want to be pessimistic in my testing. You know, if I can take all those 50-50 balls to insert my normal sports reference into the podcast, right?

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