Episode 5: Even if you know backtesting, you still couldn't beat me
BuilderOU STORY|Episode 5
Even if you know backtesting,
you still couldn’t beat yourself
Knowing the rules and being able to follow them are different
Hello.
I am BuilderOU (King Builder),
Mr. Ojun.
In Episode 4,
I talked about backtesting,
the weapon you encounter,
and meeting it.
By examining past data,
I learned the conditions that lead to wins
and the conditions that lead to losses.
I finally
gained a method to judge with numbers, not intuition
and created rules.
I also set capital management.
I felt I had become a different me from before.
However, in actual trading,
I repeated the same mistakes again.
1. The Procrastination Disease Had Not Been Cured
I knew there were moments I should pass,
yet I entered anyway.
The more backtesting I did,
the more I understood that winning conditions are limited.
If you tighten the conditions,
the number of trades you can take decreases.There were days when even looking at charts all day,
the conditions never aligned even once.
I understood it with my head.
“Now is not the time to enter.”
“Waiting here is the right thing to do.”
Nevertheless, as I kept watching the charts,
I started to find reasons to enter.
I could wait in backtesting,
but I couldn’t wait in real trading.
I fought daily with myself—unable to follow the rules.
2. Even If I Knew It Wasn’t Now,
I Couldn’t Stop
I knew I wasn’t in a trading state,
yet I kept opening the charts.
In addition to procrastination, another problem arose.