Most of us don’t have the discipline to stay focused on a single goal for five, ten or twenty years. Apps, charts, indicators. Most all of it is pure mental harassment.
Trend Following is not day trading. It doesn’t involve 10 monitors on your desk.
A robust trading system, one that is not curve-fit, must ideally trade all markets at all times in all conditions. Trend following parameters or rules must work across a range of values. System parameters that work over a range of values are considered robust. If the parameters of a system are slightly changed and the performance adjusts drastically, beware. For example, if a system works great at 20, but does not work at 19 or 21, that system is not robust. On the other hand, if a system parameter is 50 and it also works at 40 or 60, the system is Robust.
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