Hey, I randomly generated another football strategy. This time: Lay The Away Win.
So I put it into the backtesting software.
And it sucked. Properly sucked.
If I had just looked at a few recent results and started trading it live, I could easily have convinced myself there was something there.
But the backtest killed that idea pretty quickly.
Which saved me money.
But then I thought...
If laying the away team performs that badly... What happens if I do the exact opposite?
So I flipped it.
Instead of Lay The Away Win... I tested Back The Away Win.
And this is where things got interesting.
In the new video, I show you: How bad the original strategy was What the backtesting exposed Why I would never trade it What happened when I reversed the idea The results from backing the away team And whether I now have something worth forward testing
This is the bit I love about backtesting. Even a rubbish strategy can teach you something.
Sometimes it tells you to walk away. Sometimes it tells you to look in the exact opposite direction.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/THmFDzLS4nQ
Martin P.S. Turns out “this strategy is terrible” can occasionally be the start of a much better strategy. | 
