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Why backtests are useless & EAs are flawed [discuss]

  • #21
  • Nov 20, 2013 11:24am Nov 20, 2013 11:24am
Quoting PipMeUp
{quote} The walk forward analysis is a... hmm... an ANALYSIS tool! It is not a EA factory. Please stop spoiling what could become a good very thread.
Thanks..

Quoting deltatrade
{quote} 1 it will prove that the ea worked for 6 months live testing and it will give you an edge over 900000 market participants. 2 you want the concept to be accepted? then don't do 1 ea. do 100. do 1000.
God damnit, at least TRY to understand what I answer you. You do not have any understanding on what you are talking about, and instead of responding to my logical arguments with logical counter-arguments, you just keep repeating your senseless opinion over and over again.
If you would at least read and acknowledge what I answer, that could make a good discussion, but that way no discussion makes any sense.
So please, go and troll somewhere else, thanks.

-Darwin
  • #22
  • Nov 20, 2013 9:59pm Nov 20, 2013 9:59pm
Quoting Darwin-FX
{quote} Thanks.. {quote} God damnit, at least TRY to understand what I answer you. You do not have any understanding on what you are talking about, and instead of responding to my logical arguments with logical counter-arguments, you just keep repeating your senseless opinion over and over again. If you would at least read and acknowledge what I answer, that could make a good discussion, but that way no discussion makes any sense. So please, go and troll somewhere else, thanks. -Darwin
when reality becomes logical you become god. go f yourself also you sofist.

when you say something is logical you are assuming that you know what the logic of the market is. that is the stupidest assumption ever.
  • #23
  • Nov 21, 2013 9:07am Nov 21, 2013 9:07am
Darwinfx ...Thanks for this thread, your arguments are not perfectly correct but your logical reasoning is the best I have read so far regarding automated trading systems and back-testing....

Please continue sharing your knowledge

Cheers.
  • #24
  • Last Post: Nov 22, 2013 9:42am Nov 22, 2013 9:42am
Quoting deltatrade
{quote} when reality becomes logical you become god. go f yourself also you sofist. when you say something is logical you are assuming that you know what the logic of the market is. that is the stupidest assumption ever.
Aren't we all adults here? So please, act like one and don't flame.
I do not know what the logic of the market is, but I can make up an logical argumentation about my theories nevertheless.
When Charles Darwin came up with the theory of evolution, he also could not just "prove it" and he also did not know the "logic of nature", but nevertheless he could come up with a logical argumentation.

So a theory can exist and be logical, even if it is not yet fully proven.

Quoting Negus
Darwinfx ...Thanks for this thread, your arguments are not perfectly correct but your logical reasoning is the best I have read so far regarding automated trading systems and back-testing....

Please continue sharing your knowledge

Cheers.
Thanks for the feedback

I have written a new article the last days where I try to explain how WFA works and why it is the logical successor of backtesting.
But this time I tried to come up with a way where every argument is the logical consequence of the argument before - so I hope they are more correct

When I am back home on Monday/Tuesday, I will first release this article and then the tool itself a few days after - so stay tuned.

But anyways, please tell me what you think is incorrect, as I am also constantly learning I would like to know and/or discuss it

-Darwin
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