How Far Back Should Your Backtest Look Good?

"If your backtest looks great for the last 3 months, why do you care what it looked like before that?"

A trader Dave started coaching recently asked this question. The answer cuts to the core of why most traders give up on a trading strategy and end up quitting trading altogether.

The Spurious Correlations website that was mentioned in the podcast.

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Before you go!

If you're a trader and interested in backtesting and automating your trading strategy and don't know where to start, I want you to stop what you're doing and head on over to davemabe.com to sign up for my free backtesting email course.

I hope to see you there!
How Far Back Should Your Backtest Look Good?
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