Forward tested EA. What now?
Without actually knowing the metrics of the test you carried out and the strategy being used, we can't answer that question for you. We can only speculate.
However, based on experience, I can tell you that market conditions (and strategy results) can turn on a dime, one moment to the next, without warning signs. It happens regularly, sometimes even several times a month depending on the market being traded.
Unless your strategy is truely adaptable and dynamic, you will need to constantly optimise (after the fact) to keep up with conditions.
Without actually knowing the metrics of the test you carried out and the strategy being used, we can't answer that question for you. We can only speculate.
However, based on experience, I can tell you that market conditions (and strategy results) can turn on a dime, one moment to the next, without warning signs. It happens regularly, sometimes even several times a month depending on the market being traded.
Unless your strategy is truely adaptable and dynamic, you will need to constantly optimise (after the fact) to keep up with conditions.
Yeah, I get that. But lets say that, instead of testing on a demo I had put the EA on an actual prop firm challenge. Is it likely that it would have performed the same or is there some difference between a demo and a live challenge that might effect it?
You stated "forward test", which would lead me to interpret it as a "forward test" in the Strategy Tester. You did not say anything about running the EA "live" on a demo account for an entire month in order to validade if it would pass a prop challenge. Those are two completely different scenarios.
However, I hold to my initial statement. Without more information, we can only speculate.
Hey all,
I have forward tested an EA that is supposedly meant to pass prop firm challenges. As far as it's performance in my test, it did what it said that it would do and so far as that test shows, it would have passes the prop firm challenge.
My questions is, is there any reason to believe that it would behave differently once set loose on a real challenge?
I spoke with a FTMO support person, and they told me that there should be no big differences. But, I would like some secondary confirmation on this to bolster my confidence before I spend the money.
Thanks all!
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Hey all,
I have forward tested an EA that is supposedly meant to pass prop firm challenges. As far as it's performance in my test, it did what it said that it would do and so far as that test shows, it would have passes the prop firm challenge.
My questions is, is there any reason to believe that it would behave differently once set loose on a real challenge?
I spoke with a FTMO support person, and they told me that there should be no big differences. But, I would like some secondary confirmation on this to bolster my confidence before I spend the money.
Thanks all!