Articles
Articles about backtests
Short reads on what to look at in a backtest before you trust it.
- How to tell if an expert advisor is overfitted before you buyWhat the MT5 optimiser does, why the best of many configurations looks good by luck, and how to measure it in the XML before paying for a robot.
- Backtest with real costs: spread, commission, slippage and swapWhich costs a serious backtest deducts, why zero cost flatters short-term strategies and how to estimate your real cost from a broker statement.
- How to read the MT5 Strategy Tester report (and what it omits)What each number in the MT5 Strategy Tester report means, which ones are easy to misread, what the report leaves out and what to add before trusting it.