How to properly backtest your own forex scalping strategy?

[PTScalper]

Btw these are my results and statistics from last backtesting of one of my strategy.

(Bear in mind, that allmost all of my trades/scalps i do for myself, not by bot or EA)

If you would like to see it in better resolution, i can find it for you on my working station.

[WhitG47]

Thank you for sharing this story. It happens a lot, that is the difference between teory and reality.

Too right... my edge only vanished once I logged fills around news.

[PTScalper]

Thank you for sharing this story. It happens a lot, that is the difference between teory and reality.

Too right... my edge only vanished once I logged fills around news.

Yeah, thats why forex is not so easy to be profitable.

Time to time everybody will make profit, thats statistics, but to be profitable in long run, its different story.

On another hand most of my rules i have to keep cool head from stress.

I will try to use this strategy in real time real account and i will see how it goes. Of course i will share it here.

[WhitG47]

Yeah, thats why forex is not so easy to be profitable.

What was that backtest actually run on... proper tick data, or just M1 bars with a flat spread? Mind you, if you trade it by hand I'm curious how you did the test itself, replay mode or going back through the charts one by one? And what are you planning to do about news candles when you go live, because that's where mine fell over. G.

[PTScalper]

Yeah, thats why forex is not so easy to be profitable.

What was that backtest actually run on... proper tick data, or just M1 bars with a flat spread? Mind you, if you trade it by hand I'm curious how you did the test itself, replay mode or going back through the charts one by one? And what are you planning to do about news candles when you go live, because that's where mine fell over. G.

Hi,
I tested in several runs ..

1) In first runs i tested on M1 flat charts to find best combination of parameters from 10 214 combinations i think.

2) Top 20 combinations i retested on tick by tick data with i think like 95 percent data quality.

And that prinscreens is from best combination from that second round.