<![CDATA[Forex Software — How is "Is strategy better?" calculated on Walk Forward]]> 2025-10-06T13:30:08Z PunBB https://forexsb.com/forum/topic/10003/how-is-is-strategy-better-calculated-on-walk-forward/ <![CDATA[Re: How is "Is strategy better?" calculated on Walk Forward]]> Hello Jurgen - thank you for your honest input here!

It's true I landed back on Mr. Popov's software in a weird serendipitous circle. I have been working on trading for a long time as you noted, but still no major traction that I'm happy with. I think the last time I took a serious look at Mr. Popov's software ... as I recall he was a sea captain (stood out to me as an interesting life career) and I think the software must have been only in alpha-stage development as I cannot find where I purchased anything related to FSB Pro. In a later cycle of algo study, I ran into Mr. Petko and at some point I landed back on Mr. Popov's creations again!

But I go through long phases of discretionary manual and then phases of algo trading. So all those years have not been focused on algo trading. But I recently shifted back to algo trading so it might take me awhile to realign everything in my mind. I don't know why my brain does this cycling, but I think it is from pushing too hard -- when I get burned out on one area of study, I shift gears. But I save the experience and learned nuggets. I can probably tell you all the things I found that DON'T work haha!

As an engineer and software developer, I have technical skills and I've tried to apply them progressively over the years. So my current stage will be figuring out how to properly assess algo strategies in general. From an infrastructure standpoint, I think I have everything mastered so at this point I'm just trying to learn how to read these statistics.

(I haven't read through any of my super old posts so I have no idea what I was bantering on about back then haha! Only know that I'm still here and kicking.)

Thank you very much for the detailed explanation about my original question regarding the WFO analysis.

I recently learned how to use the Reactor feature along with many optimization filter steps. So now my process involves focusing on these 3 pairs for correlation balance that I learned from Mr. Petko (EURUSD, GBPUSD, EURGBP) and I'm generating on the M15. This is just my new starting point so I'm sure it will evolve over time.

Adding Reactor has really helped pair down the universe of generated strategies. Now I'm just trying to get a deeper understanding of what the statistics are telling me.

My plan is to follow what I learned from Mr. Petko -- to generate constantly on pairs I'm looking at, using the actual broker data when possible, and then preparing a fleet of bots to trade in both demo and live accounts. Per Mr. Petko's teaching, I am currently working to find good strategies daily and after monitoring the demo account performance, I plan to identify the cream-of-crop Top5 and trade those in the live accounts.

Btw, nice to meet you!

]]> https://forexsb.com/forum/user/5552/ 2025-10-06T13:30:08Z https://forexsb.com/forum/post/82859/#p82859 <![CDATA[How is "Is strategy better?" calculated on Walk Forward]]> I was wondering if you could shed some light on how the system determines if a Walk Forward strategy is better or not?

When I performed Walk Forward on this one, it looks great to me on the surface. Only 1 segment was less profitable, and overall it achieved the same net profit as the original.

But the statistics seem pretty negative and they don't seem to reflect the graph. Is this a mistake?

[img]walkforward.png[/img]

[img]walkforward stats.png[/img]

Thank you

EDIT: sorry not sure how to attach images inline

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