Listen "How Far Back Should Your Backtest Look Good?"
Episode Synopsis
"If your backtest looks great for the last 3 months, why do you care what it looked like before that?"A trader Dave started coaching recently asked this question. The answer cuts to the core of why most traders give up on a trading strategy and end up quitting trading altogether.The Spurious Correlations website that was mentioned in the podcast.
---Before you go!The next time you find yourself in a drawdown, I want you to stop what you're doing and head on over to betterbacktesting.com to sign up for my free backtesting email course.I hope to see you there!
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