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faq:my-well-otpimised-strategies-fail-on-real-trading

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If My Well Optimized Strategies Make Real Profit

The Generator and the Optimizer are so powerful that they may find trading rules that take advantages of every market move in order to find the most profitable strategy. We call that Curve-fitting or Over-optimization. To fight with that problem EA Studio provide a Monte Carlo analyzer, which is designed to examine the strategy robustness.

Unfortunately, no mater what analysis we do on historical data, the real market always produces different results in the live trading. Our studies shows that 5% to 20% of the produced and analyzed strategies make real profit. (The numbers depends on the program settings and the trader’s skills).

We found out that the only reliable way to filter out the bad strategies is to run our strategy set on a Demo account or on a Real one with minimal trading size. After a certain time (3-4 weeks ) we remove the failed strategies and set new ones for demo trading. We move the good ones on a real account and increase the entry size depending on the results.

There are also other tricks to test our strategies:

  • You can keep your generated strategies. When you have more data, you can re-test the strategies or the complete Collections. You can use the Strategy Validator tool for that.