Turning things that work sometimes into rules you can test, measure and keep — and learning how easy it is to fool yourself while doing it.
ADVANCEDYou can write a strategy down precisely enough that someone else could trade it, and test it without flattering it.
If it cannot be written down, it cannot be tested, and you will never know whether it worked.
20 min4 topics
Scalping, day trading and swing trading make very different demands on your time, costs and temperament.
24 min4 topics
Entry, exit, size and the conditions where the rules do not apply — all stated before any testing.
Most backtests are wrong in the same few ways. This module is mostly about those.
26 min4 topics
Lookahead, survivorship and the quiet edits that turn a test into a story about the past.
20 min4 topics
What a demo account proves, what it cannot, and how long forward testing has to run.
The numbers that say whether to keep going, and the ones that only look like they do.
22 min4 topics
Expectancy, drawdown and consistency, and why total return on its own says almost nothing.
22 min4 topics
Why the best backtest is usually the worst strategy, and what to do instead of tuning.
6 lessons · ~2.2 hrs