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Guides on backtesting forex strategies, journaling trades, and reading your own statistics without drawing confident conclusions from noise.
How Many Trades Do You Need to Backtest a Strategy?
'100 trades' has no statistical basis. It takes ~500 to prove a 55% win rate isn't a coin flip — here's the maths, and why weak edges need more.
Why Your Backtest Doesn't Match Your Live Trading
Slippage gets the blame, but that's an algo problem. If you backtest by hand, the gap is usually execution — and it's measurable.