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Trading strategies tested on years of price data, with the rules, the costs and the results, including the ones that do not work.

STRATEGYEUR/USD London breakout · the optimistic backtest+6.5Rbefore costs and honest fillsStrategy

How to backtest a forex strategy properly (and the mistakes that fake profits)

We took one strategy and backtested it five ways. The results ranged from +167R to −148R. The data, bar size, fills and costs that decide whether a backtest tells the truth.

STRATEGYGBP/USD London breakout · cumulative R, 2016–2026-37.8R2,691 trades after costsStrategy

We tested the London breakout strategy on 10 years of data

The classic London breakout, run on 2,691 GBP/USD trading days, plus EUR/USD and USD/JPY, from 2016 to 2026, with spreads charged and every rule stated. Here is what it actually returns.

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