The Dangers Of Backtesting Your Trading System

Today we've invited Hugh of TradingHeros.com to talk a little bit about the dangers of backtesting.

Hugh loves to surf, drinks butter with his coffee, is almost the same height as Jeremy Lin and aspires to be a Professional Forex Trader.  He logs his trades, interviews professional traders, does trading software tutorials and analyzes his backtesting results on his Forex trading blog .

You have finally done it! After a 36 hour marathon backtesting session, 15 pots of coffee and some smelling salts, you finally have the vital stats on your new discretionary technical trading system called the GekkoSmasher 3. And the results look very promising... Continue reading "The Dangers Of Backtesting Your Trading System"