- How much period we should test before we start using that EA in real Account.
- How many live profitable trading system do you have?
- Experts: RampokScalp
Test it less than a year than go with it in real mode using a small capital. Once also real mode is confirmed (max 1 year is enough for this) you can invest bigger in the system if it proved positive.
Market is like a living organism. I created my oscillation EA and settings that worked 2-3 years ago may not work anymore (was very profitable on every chart until December 2012 - now after dec 2012 requires serious optimizing). In my EA I included few currency presets. Some of them are for 6-year period, some for 2-year and some just for the last year. The shorter the term the more profitable it is, but the more unstable in theory it is. The longer the term - the less chance of breaking the pattern, but also less profitable it is. No strategy will work forever. You may re-optimize the settings from time to time to give people the illusion it is "perfect", but it will be just a huge BS.
This poll is about backtesting EA. So I have raised to understand for how many historic period generally we test EA.
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