DislikedWhen you see only 5 or 7 trades is because the 80 monthly pips are reached (your 10% for example) so the strategy stops to trade until next month...
It's 1 trade per day until it reaches the target (in some case it exceeds the target)...Ignored
Good stuff here.... Though, I also personally believe that backtests can only tell us so much, and from your comments, I think you tend to agree. Don't get me wrong, I usually backtest things too, though I almost always go manually even though it's time-consuming and tedious. For me, a rule of thumb is to do about 3-years worth of backtests. If something isn't clearly profitable (like 3% + per month), I usually either give up on it, or if I really believe it can work, I'll try to improve it. After it makes that first cut, I move to "stage 2", which is where I consider us here - forward testing (still in demo). I know some folks have mentioned they're going live with small accounts... That's usually "stage 3" for me. I like to have at least a few months of forward-tested demo before I risk anything, no matter how small... Just my style, I suppose.
But again, thanks for putting the time in to this. I'm looking forward to any further findings you have...