Hoping for some opinions on this.
I have been using a commercial ea for 6 months and I'm happy with the results so far---but I'm wondering if they can be better.
The ea tests well over a 10 year period and presumably the developers used optimization to come up with the best settings for the whole of that period.
I know the historical results dont guarantee future success blah blah but I'm wondering if an optimization of the main indy settings say every month would make the ea more responsive to the current market conditions---or would I just be curve fitting and chasing my tail?
When I carry out optimization with the strat tester I can massively improve profits--sometimes with an increase in DD-- sometimes with a huge difference in number of trades. Is it simply a matter of finding the most inrease in profit with least increase in DD---or do the other figures hint at true performance.
Very interested in hearing from people who have played around with this stuff.
Cheers
I have been using a commercial ea for 6 months and I'm happy with the results so far---but I'm wondering if they can be better.
The ea tests well over a 10 year period and presumably the developers used optimization to come up with the best settings for the whole of that period.
I know the historical results dont guarantee future success blah blah but I'm wondering if an optimization of the main indy settings say every month would make the ea more responsive to the current market conditions---or would I just be curve fitting and chasing my tail?
When I carry out optimization with the strat tester I can massively improve profits--sometimes with an increase in DD-- sometimes with a huge difference in number of trades. Is it simply a matter of finding the most inrease in profit with least increase in DD---or do the other figures hint at true performance.
Very interested in hearing from people who have played around with this stuff.
Cheers
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