Backtestd / Trading from Zero
Trading from Zero
Learn trading from zero
32 short episodes, from reading one candle to testing a strategy yourself. One idea per episode, on a real chart, with one number we measured on real data.
A. Read a chart
- 01 · What does one candle really tell you?
- 02 · Why does the same chart look calm in days and wild in 15 minutes?
- 03 · What is a trend, really? · Coming soon
- 04 · Do support and resistance hold? · Coming soon
- 05 · What does volume tell you? · Coming soon
- 06 · How far does price move in a normal day? · Coming soon
B. Build a rule
- 07 · What is a trading strategy? · Coming soon
- 08 · What is a stop loss, and why put it before you enter? · Coming soon
- 09 · What is R, the unit every trader should count in? · Coming soon
- 10 · How much should one trade risk? · Coming soon
- 11 · Take profit or let it run? · Coming soon
- 12 · Can you make money when prices fall? · Coming soon
- 13 · What is a moving average, and is it magic? · Coming soon
C. Test it
- 14 · What is a backtest? · Coming soon
- 15 · How much do fees really cost? · Coming soon
- 16 · Is a 70% win rate good? · Coming soon
- 17 · What is drawdown, and could you live through it? · Coming soon
- 18 · How many trades before you can trust a result? · Coming soon
- 19 · Why does the best backtest lie? · Coming soon
- 20 · What is look-ahead bias? · Coming soon
- 21 · Why test on data you did not use? · Coming soon
D. Compare honestly
- 22 · Did the strategy beat just holding? · Coming soon
- 23 · Was it skill, or a bull market? · Coming soon
- 24 · Could a monkey do it? · Coming soon
- 25 · Does it still work if you change one setting? · Coming soon
- 26 · Why the coins that died matter · Coming soon
- 27 · What is a confirmation test, and why only once? · Coming soon
E. Go live
- 28 · What is the risk of ruin? · Coming soon
- 29 · Why doubling down feels great until it doesn't · Coming soon
- 30 · What do leverage and funding cost you? · Coming soon
- 31 · Why live results are worse than the backtest · Coming soon
- 32 · Your 7-question checklist before you trust any strategy · Coming soon
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