Think and grow rich

Wide Tailz said:
About 10 years ago I made a trading system that did trend followin on SPY, using a volatility breakout. I optimized it on 1 year of data and let it run for a few months. It didn't make money.

Then I optimized it on 13 years of data and it did way better, like totally continued the simulated equity curve for the next year of future data. Never did deploy it with any real money, probably because I'm not psychologically ready to take hundreds of thousands of other peoples money.

The lezzon: backtesting is just one more filter you can use to screen a system before going live. But the proof is in the tax returns!

*edit- think I may need to get Tradestation again to see if it made any money over the last 10 years.
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Good trendy points. And meaning you did not want the risk [plenty ] for taking hundreds of thousands in profits??
True on tax returns;
big bank WFC approved me for a mortgage, but also required me to sign a form allowing them to also get a federal tax copy of mine from IRS, also.
Actually a wise move for the bank:caution::caution:
 
I feel merely think I do not make you rich. you have to put in an equal amount of effort or you can say put your thoughts into action then only you can do great things in life.
 
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