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625 - When Is It Time To Ditch Your Trading Strategy?

The Trading Coach Podcast

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When Should I Stop Back Testing a Strategy?

Back testing is the process of trying to find out if a trading strategy will work in real life. Traders usually back test their strategies over different time periods, such as low volatility or consolidative markets. The final figures are important, but what's more important is the journey, right? What did it take to get to those final figures? And let's look at this trader's example right here, right? He's got three wins out of 38 trades. R lets cal it 37%. We make forty-five losses after he wins the next 60 trades. Let's say he wins thenext 52 trades and ends up with 55% profit. So a 55%, one percentage im probably,

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