if backtesting works, what could go wrong in real trade?

[BPtrader]

wow, there is a fight going on in this thread.

nice.

keep fighting, I will just sit here watching.......

 

[konviction]

Quote from 1a2b3cppp:



It's like giving someone a fork to eat soup. It's not going to work.

You cant compare eating soup to trading, its...as you like to say "Completely outside the realm of trading"

 

[1a2b3cppp]

Quote from konviction:

You cant compare eating soup to trading, its...as you like to say "Completely outside the realm of trading"

You could make that argument if I was trying to tell people to trade with soup because soup contained magical math properties that lead to profitable trades.

But I see why you might still be confused since you don't seem to have quite mastered analogies yet.

 

[SuperCruz]

Please have a look at the following post, it might help you:
http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2764965#post2764965

 

[pipdaddy]

Quote from 1a2b3cppp:

You could make that argument if I was trying to tell people to trade with soup because soup contained magical math properties that lead to profitable trades.

But I see why you might still be confused since you don't seem to have quite mastered analogies yet.

I remember one day back in the summer of 1994 I was eating alphabet soup for lunch and I looked down and saw AAPL. I went long...it's still working.