Yo,
There's a special kind of pain in trading.
You stop trading a strategy.
Then it starts winning without you.
Lovely stuff.
You sit there looking at the results thinking:
"Ah. Brilliant. So it was just waiting for me to leave."
But that's usually not what happened.
What happened is you hit a normal bad patch and did not know it was normal.
So you quit.
Then the strategy did what strategies do.
It moved through the ugly bit and came out the other side.
This is one of the big reasons backtesting matters.
It helps you see the full shape.
Not just the week you traded.
Not just the 12 results you remember.
The bigger picture.
You can see whether a strategy has survived bad runs before.
You can see whether the bad patch was normal.
You can see whether you gave up too early or whether binning it was the right call.
Both are useful.
Because the goal is not to blindly stick with everything.
The goal is to know what you're dealing with.
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Ryan
P.S. A strategy recovering the day after you quit should be illegal.
