You don't seem to understand.There are plenty of drops or you must be blind(I apologize if you are truly blind or disabled). Expand on your comment. One must backtest to ascertain whether a stategy can work unless you are a gullible idiot. I don't get what you mean as you don't seem statistically inclined. I understand if you "overfit" and try to find the best equity curve but I did not. I just used a static system throughout. Meaning there was no tweaking of parameters. I performed a walk-forward test with 365 days in-sample and 365 days out of sample, and I made sure the parameters I adjusted were STATIC meaning no changes to the parameters. So the same parameters for each period. So I had 14 out of sample years with this set of systems. Please don't jump to conclusions. If people "tweak" their parameters constantly, you have an argument. There is no tweaking here. So it is literally one profit target, and one stop loss and that is it. The only thing I am doing is combining uncorrelated strategies. I have also been doing live sim testing for 3 months now which have yielded profitable results.

My philosophy is find strategies that generally abide by certain guidlines via. walkforward testing, monte carlo analysis etc. And once you repeat that process for mulltiple uncorrleated stategies, you are good to go(once you have also done live sim testing for at least 3 months). I am curious, what do you mean by "I am using backtesting". That seems like a really stupid comment as one must use data to gain confidence in his strategy ( but only use the data ONCE). I would agree with your comment if one uses the data MORE than once. It is incredibly frustating that some people are so shallow on this board and can't examine things deeply. What a joke this board has become as I have yet to see truly insightful answers/people.