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Back Testing - Evaluating your Trading Strategy 101

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Back Testing - Evaluating your Trading Strategy 101

Backtesting of technical methods in light of past prices is the most popular testing strategy among technical traders.Below is a short list that will get you started;

1. How many trades does it generate?
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2. Whats the reliability of the system?
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3. How big is the average profit compared to the average loss?
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4. Many more..............

#Remember that you need enough data to create at least 30 trades in each test #

Please let me know if you would like to know more :)

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