Trading Systems Lab

Practical notes on EA building, MT5 testing, risk control, and market timing. Less hype, more systems.

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Three Ideas We Can't Prove Yet, So We're Watching Them

Three Ideas We Can't Prove Yet, So We're Watching Them

Three ideas looked good in our data, but only because we went looking. So we froze the rules, wrote down in advance what would count as success or failure, and are now watching them on data that did not exist when the rules were written. Why that takes years, and what we will publish either way.

forward testing out-of-sample backtesting FOMC US100 EURGBP mean reversion MT5 EA development
2026/10/20
How to use this blog
  • Pick a session (Tokyo/London/NY) and test one idea.
  • Use fixed risk per trade, then optimize only after stability.
  • Bookmark your best setups and keep a track record.