Is forward testing dependable?

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Simba Amaechi
Answered 7 months, 2 weeks ago
<p id="isPasted">Forward testing is not to predict the market, it is to see how the EA performs in a live market. Backtesting is just a start, it will show you if it has any hope at all. forward testing is just running the EA on a demo account for a while to see how it does.</p><p><br></p>
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Elvira Cook
Answered 3 weeks, 3 days ago
<p id="isPasted">Really depends on the strategy. For example now I have a strategy that's only been trading live with a small account for nearly two months. I am scaling it up to be a full sized account with big boy money the next week or so because:</p><ul><li>has rigorous and long running backtests, which displayed excellent all-round performance</li><li>the live-trading reflect all stats from the backtests</li><li>It did have one big weakness, but I was able to reliably solve it</li><li>The code infrastructure is mature, with proven reliability and redundancies</li><li>The markets it trades are very liquid</li><li>the max pain is …</li></ul>
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