Your Backtest Lied to You: Here's How to Catch It Before the Market Does
A 75% win rate in backtesting sounds incredible — until you go live and watch the same strategy hemorrhage money in real time. Backtesting in MetaTrader is one of the most misunderstood processes in retail forex trading, and the mistakes traders make are almost always the same ones. Here's an opinionated, no-holds-barred look at where backtests go wrong and how to build a validation process that actually means something.