The Better Your Starting Point...
By Dave Mabe
When traders start using the Strategy Cruncher, there's a temptation to take ANY strategy and run it through the optimization process to make it profitable.
This is possible, but optimizing some strategies is like putting lipstick on a pig.
So the more edge your strategy has before optimizing, the better your final version will be.
This is where market intuition and experience can save you a lot of wasted time.
Just slightly different starting points can make a big difference.
And the best starting points come from intuition rather than data mining.
If your strategy isn't a little bit profitable before optimizing, take a step back and see if you can create a version that is.
And then use that version as your starting point.
-Dave
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