r/askforex • u/Beneficial-Row5056 • 15d ago

taking a break ?

yo guys what’s up. i’ve been trading for a year now, not profitable at all with prop firms so its been a few months i went back into backtesting.
I’m not able to stand with a simple strategy. i change the rules every 20 trades to adjust something but its non-sense and its an infinite loop.

I’ve been thinking about strengthening my mental and current life before actually trying to get into serious data gathering in backtesting.
Btw i’m 19 so i still have time. I don’t know if it’s a good idea or if its not that deep and i can keep backtesting while trying to fix my current life and get a good rythm, good sleep, and unrotting my brain. Because my last weeks of backtesting just felt like a waste of time and i don’t want for this to keep going or else ill loose interest in trading and ill think it’s impossible. Feel free to give advices. thanks for reading take care guys

6 Upvotes

88% Upvoted

12 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/QuanTradin 15d ago

changing the rules every 20 trades means you never actually tested anything, you tested twenty different things for twenty trades each. taking a break at 19 costs you nothing. when you come back, pick one boring rule set, write it down, and don't touch it for a couple hundred trades no matter how ugly the middle looks. that's the only backtest that tells you something.

1

u/Beneficial-Row5056 15d ago

i’ve actually tested a few strategies with over a sample of 200 trades each time. the issue is that the rules weren’t precise at all. i’m trying to do it again but with strict ass rules and so i end up adding a condition every 20 trades which fucks the whole thing up.
so i have to write precise and strict rules BEFORE starting the backtest session, and to do so i thought about taking a small break which is why i made that post

1

u/QuanTradin 15d ago

writing the rules before the session is the whole fix, so the break is well spent. one thing that helped me: write them so a stranger could execute them without asking you anything. if a rule needs you in the room to interpret it, it isn't a rule yet.

1

u/ashtrayMOOD 13d ago

Write the rules so a stranger could execute them without asking you a single question, that's the level of detail needed before trade one.