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Old 01-27-2007, 05:40 PM
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Re: Discretionary Trading vs Automated Trading
80% of the time pretty much screws the reliability of the backtest results wouldn't you say? You want to test as close to 100% real world environment as possible. Those 20% could well mean all the winning trades that never happen. IMO I wouldn't even continue testing if I cannot find a 99% of the results resembling live trading.

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