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🔥 The biggest mistake when optimizing a trading bot: thinking that more adjustments = more profits. And yes, it can cost you dearly…

Many believe that if a bot fits perfectly to past data, it will perform well in the future. Wrong. What looks like a Ferrari in backtesting can turn into a tricycle with square wheels in live trading.

1️⃣ Backtesting: Checking how a bot would have performed in the past. Useful, but not enough.

2️⃣ Optimization: Tweaking parameters to improve results. This can be gold… or a deadly trap.

3️⃣ Over-optimization: When you fine-tune the bot so much that it looks unbeatable in historical data, but crashes in real trading. Like memorizing test answers instead of understanding the material.

That's why good optimization isn’t about overfitting, but finding settings that can survive in the future.

In LINK, we avoid over-optimization with a serious, methodical, and brutal process:

✅ Segmenting different periods to check for consistency. If a bot only works in one specific timeframe, it’s doomed.

✅ Forward testing to see how it performs in unseen market conditions. Because if it doesn’t survive outside of backtests, it’s worthless.

✅ Re-verification in real conditions, no tricks. No magic optimizations that only shine in historical data.

✅ Backtesting on synthetic symbols, modifying market conditions to test how the bot adapts to unpredictable scenarios.

✅ Pure torture: Express slippage, latency, extreme conditions. If the bot survives this, it can trade anywhere.

To give you an idea: 45 hours of preliminary optimization on LINK with 32 processors + a farm of another 32. Because doing it right isn’t just pressing a button and hoping for miracles—it’s a serious process.

If you want me to talk more about this and how you can apply it to your trading, hit the like button on this post.

Because backtesting doesn’t pay the bills. A well-optimized bot does.

# Do You Want a Trading Bot That Looks Like a Work of Art or One That Won’t Blow Up Your Account in Three Weeks?

Because, look, we could make our backtests look flawless.
We could show you a profit curve so perfect it would seem designed by a Swiss engineer with OCD.

But there’s a problem: it would be a lie.

Making a bot look profitable in the past is easy.
You feed it data from 2020 to 2025, tweak it until everything shines, and voilà: you’ve got a money-making machine…
that in real trading leaves you staring at your screen while your account burns.

Because the market doesn’t follow your optimized rules.
It does whatever the hell it wants.

### We do things differently:
✅ We optimize on 2020-2022.
✅ Then we throw it at data the bot has never seen (2022-2024). If it holds up, we’re onto something.
✅ Finally, we send it to the slaughterhouse: 2024-2025, with slippage, horrible spreads, and brutal conditions.

If after all that it still works, then you’ve got a real bot.

### The result?
Its backtest won’t be a smooth highway.
It won’t have an Instagram-worthy dream curve.

But it also won’t wipe you out when you run it live.

So, what’s it gonna be?
A pretty chart? Or a bot that can take the market’s punches?

Think fast.
The market won’t wait.

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“I’m going to make easy money with trading.”

Yeah, sure. And I’m going to win a Nobel Prize for writing this.

Look, every newbie trader follows the same ridiculous path:

1️⃣ They see some guy on YouTube with a rented Lamborghini. They get excited. Open an account. Think they’ll double their money in a week.

2️⃣ They start trading with the same strategy a chimpanzee with a coin would use. Win one, lose four. They start doubting.

3️⃣ They search YouTube. Find a guru with a “foolproof strategy.” Try it. Lose more. Switch strategies. Repeat the cycle.

4️⃣ They give up and buy a magic robot that promises to make them rich effortlessly. It works for a bit. Then blows up their account.

5️⃣ They decide the only way to win is to bet bigger. Add more money to “recover.” Guess what happens.

6️⃣ Last attempt with a decent system. They win. Get excited. Increase risk. One bad streak and *BAM!* Account wiped.

7️⃣ They get frustrated. Blame the market, the banks, the Fed, their grandma. And quit.

What went wrong?

They never understood the game. No patience, no education, no risk management. They looked for shortcuts until they ran out of road.

Trading can be profitable. But not for those who believe in fairy tales.

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If you prefer to keep believing those who tell you how things are done but don’t actually do them… then go back to step one.

The Market Doesn’t Hate You… But It Doesn’t Love You Either

Yesterday, someone told me: "The market hates me, I always lose."

Listen, the market doesn’t even know you exist. It’s not watching you. It’s not laughing at your trades. It just does what it does.

While you complain, others are learning its rules and making money.

✅ If you trade without a strategy, you’ll get wiped out.
✅ If you're obsessed with recovering losses, you're digging your own grave.
✅ If you think you can predict the next move… you might as well buy a crystal ball.

It’s not luck. It’s not magic. It’s method. It’s control.

So, what’s it going to be? Keep whining or start trading with an edge?

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