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Backtest EA - consistency

Hi I've spent so much time writing many EAs, changing it numerous times based on various strategies but none of them seem to produce consistent results which is frustrating me. I found a post by bgaitero and his EA performed excellent over a period of 8 -9 years in backtest

Good backtest result.

Hi, I wanted to know what is a good backtest result in terms of profit. For e.g if I backtest an EA that makes 4000 profit in 4 years with a starting capital 5000 - would that be considered acceptable? Equity curve rises steadily and the absolute drawdown is 150. How do you guage your backtest