Hi all, I'm new to backtesting and I need your help and input This (automated) strategy runs on EUR/USD and other pairs, on several timeframes. I based the settings on backtest optimizations from 1/1/2010 on. My first three weeks live were not good and I don't know if I'm in a drawdown or should dump the entire idea. I decided to test again from 1/1/2006 onwards. This example looks promising to me, but I'm not sure any more. The less trades; the greater the profits, but the lower the probabilities. Is this curve-fitting or is there anything else I overlooked? Please leave your comments! Thanks, Onra
Thanks; that's certainly an issue. We changed the pending orders to market orders, because there weren't filled sometimes. The latest version should allow more room between stop and limit price. In order to get an idea of the spread, I used a slippage of 4 (= 2 pips with Interactive Brokers)
Optimization is the process of curve fitting a strategy to the data. You are concerned with over fitting which is highly likely if you are using 12 parameters. If it were that easy.. everyone could do it. If you message me I'll let you know when I release an ebook/report on backtesting & system development in the next few weeks.
He probably means the control parameters on the right. These are not system parameters. To the OP: how many parameters are used in your system? For example, period of a MA, RSI, etc.?
No indicators says nothing in particular. If it has statements like: IF High[1] > High[2]+a where a is a variable, then this is not parameterless price action.
Than it's all the parameters on the top right side; so about twelve. Can you give some comment on the number of trades, the Sharpe Ratio, Profit faktor etc., because I have no idea if I should look for less or more...