Mr. Bit Shadow

Over a decade in commercial | Climbing the second mountain | I write about whatever I want

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@codewithimanshu My grandma trades. Learned from her. She's better than this

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@AlphaCapitalUK I need an account.

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@timeframeking As a standalone it means nothing. I've seen claims about 34r in January this year. Is it real? Maybe. Maybe not. So, unless it's not mine, it's not real. Do what works for you.

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@s4txbt There is one more thing nobody talks about. In early 20s brain is not fully developed and managing money is a skill you start building. Wish you good. You've laid the foundation.

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@TheH0n3stTrader HOW rev combo

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@Wordsofrizdom Discipline is a preparation problem. Umar is right.

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After a couple of years in the markets, I realize how much fun the market wizards have when they look at discussions around trading.

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@StoicTA Don't confuse system with entry model.

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@vedictrades There's a long story for this. But people claiming that have no sense of reality.

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I've been doing what Yumi (@samuraipips358) says for a while.

Prep work is not finished yet. All I can say is that small improvements compound.

Change only one variable and do it again from the start. The only way.

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@t0mbfx Real life when you go to the other side 👍

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@t0mbfx Anyone who took an economics class would know the payout potential ranking:
Job
Trading/investing
Own Company

Why bother?

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@lawyer_memes 🤣🤣 Time is playing you both.

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@AnkurPatel59 The one who stays longer with his process.

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@erostrds 5%ers

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@Simon_Ingari In the beginning i had a lot of respect for hr. After more than a decade, it's the worst department in a company.

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@TheH0n3stTrader Finally, i thought i was the only one believing it.

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@t0mbfx Even the brokers say about 70% fail. Plus minus something.

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@Simon_Ingari Nothing wrong in leaving. But doesn’t have to lack respect. Gen z has good principles but has to grow up.

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This is how real work starts.

[Yumi🌸 @samuraipips358]

You tested on a massive sample and it still didn't work.
The reason exists before your very first test trade.

You did not test your strategy.
You ran trades on historical data and liked the results.
That is not the same thing.

Before a single test trade is taken, the structure must already exist.

What exactly is a rule?
Most traders cannot answer this clearly.
They say "I enter when price does this" — but "this" changes depending on the day, the mood, the chart.
If your rule can be interpreted differently each time you look at a chart, it is not a rule.
It is a feeling with a name.

A rule must be defined so precisely that there is only one possible interpretation.
No room for judgment.
No room for "it looked like a setup."
Either the conditions are met or they are not.

If this structure does not exist before testing, you are not testing a system.
You are testing your in-the-moment judgment — and calling it a strategy.

Then there is observation.
How do you look at a chart?
Most traders look at charts differently every day without realizing it.
Monday they focus on one pattern.
Wednesday they notice something else.
Friday they feel something about the overall trend.

If your observation is not repeatable, your entries are not repeatable.
If your entries are not repeatable, your test results are meaningless — because you cannot reproduce them.

Observation must have structure.
The same eyes looking at the same elements in the same order every single time.
Without this, testing is just painting patterns onto history after the fact.

And that leads to the deepest problem.
Curve fitting.

A strategy that was "discovered" by looking at past charts and finding what would have worked is not a strategy.
It is a description of the past disguised as a prediction of the future.

If the process of building your rules allows any room to adjust them based on what you see in historical results, the test is already contaminated.
The results will look perfect.
They will not survive live trading.

This is why so many traders say "it worked in testing but not in real trading."
The test was never clean.
The rules were never independent of the data they were tested on.

The structure that prevents all of this — that defines rules with zero ambiguity, makes observation repeatable, and eliminates curve fitting by design — must exist before you test.

Without it, more testing does not help.
It only gives you more confidence in a broken foundation.

Most traders do not know this structure exists.
They skip straight to testing, get good numbers, and wonder why live trading destroys them.

The answer was never in the test.
It was in what you failed to build before the test.

And despite how critical this is, almost no resource explains it in detail.
Most traders waste enormous amounts of time and money on self-taught testing that was flawed from the start.
So I built one.

The complete blueprint for building that structure is here.

The blueprint [Trading System Architecture]
→ https://t.co/tXIFR0iTdl