In my experience, backtests show what won't be profitable, not what will be profitable in the future. So if a system backtest was bad, the system likely won't be good in the future. And if a system backtest was good, the system might be good in the future.
If that's the case Ph1, that means most of your trading idea have no mathematical edge. Try to reverse the "logic" behind your systems, as this approach usually delivers positive results. Best of luck my friend.
I was simply responding to your comment : "he's not standing in front of a bunch of tanks in the name of democracy."
Oh, that particular guy? I was referring to the future of the 7 or 8 billions people currently on earth, sorry.
When you have so many Americans who are docile little slaves who hangs and believes what extreme liberal media tells them daily, they have already conquered you, like the communists have done in China, North Korea, Cuba, etc. All they need is their propaganda machines running their lies and indoctrination 24/7 and they got you, since, so many Americans have stopped using their brains.
Please allow me to make a comparison between Excel and stock charting software(Metastock, Ninja Trader, Multicharts, Amibroker). Scanning for profitable stocks is similar to gold prospecting. Excel stock analysis is this to gold prospecting. Of course, if there is a mother lode, a pair of bare hands will do. Where as stock charting software is this.