backtesting

Paper Trading Done Right: How to Practice Before You Risk a Single Dollar

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Paper Trading Done Right: How to Practice Before You Risk a Single Dollar Here’s a number that should stop you cold: studies consistently show that 70–80% of retail day traders lose money. Not over a bad month. Over their entire trading careers. And if you dig into the wreckage, you’ll find one pattern repeated over … Read more

How to Backtest a Trading Bot Properly: A Practitioner’s No-BS Guide

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How to Backtest a Trading Bot Properly: A Practitioner’s No-BS Guide Let’s be honest about something most trading tutorials won’t tell you: a great backtest is, paradoxically, a red flag. If your strategy is returning 300% annually with a Sharpe ratio above 3.0 and a max drawdown of 4%, you haven’t found the Holy Grail … Read more