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Why "Walk Forward Analysis" is still unreliable and useless! [DISCUSS]

Hello, I am Darwin and today I want to talk about the limitations that walk forward analysis suffers from. This is my 3rd article, so if you do not know how WFA works, please read the other 2 (you can find them here on the forum). The target audience of this article is everybody that deals with

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Walk Forward Analysis - the only logical successor to backtesting [DISCUSS] [PART 1]

Hello, I'm Darwin and this is my second article in which I will try to explain how a walk-forward-analysis works and what benefits it brings you as an EA trader. But I do not just want to explain how a walk-forward-analysis works (as others already did this), no, I want to explain why it is the only

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Why backtests are useless, EAs are flawed and their parameters are bad [DISCUSS]

Hi, I am Darwin and I am new here. tl;dr In the next weeks, I am planing to release my private Walk Forward Analyzer, but before I do this, first I want to make sure that also the beginners in mechanical trading understand why common backtests are quite useless and why walk forward analysis is