Tested investment strategy in paper version. Expect same results in live?

Slippage drives me nuts really despite I know it is part of my daytrading system despite trading most liquid products out there
My rule of thumb for the performance expectation is
about 10% goes to commissions
about 10 - 15% goes to slippage

Now you have -25% (if everything else goes well) just cost of trading. Awful :banghead: :D
 
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In the past, I have run both the paper-trading and live-trading accounts at the same time with the same systems. Though the individual trades produced slightly different results, they averaged out about the same. Sometimes in my favor, sometimes not.
The systems traded both long and short, and were trades that took a position early in the day and closed out all positions at the close.
Stocks only
Market orders
Not demo account
 
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