Episode 13: Why was ACE deemed complete when there is still room for improvement?
After running for eight and a half years,
the defense ablation is also finished.
ACE has,
finally reached a point where it can be completed.
But,
if you want to investigate,
there are still things to investigate.
To search for weaknesses,
to add new conditions,
to potentially improve backtest numbers further.
So the final decision was,
where to stop.
.
What I learned, I will not include everything
If you study historical data deeply,
you will find places where it would have been better not to include here.
you would have been better off exiting early here.
And,
and,
you could also turn that into a rule.
But,
that rule will not necessarily apply in the future.
After you know the answer from the past,
if you align ACE with that answer,
backtests may look better,
but it could become a past-optimized EA
.
Therefore,
I drew a line.
What is known and what can be put into ACE are separate.
The research continues.
But,
things lacking sufficient justification will not be included in Ver.1.
ACE GOLD EA Ver.1 — GENESIS —
What was necessary was kept.
What was unnecessary was removed.
And,
things whose answers have not yet been found,
were not forced in.
The final backtest is,
from January 2018 to August 2026.
2,222 trades.
Net profit +2,621,844 yen.
PF 1.49.
Maximum DD 17%.
RF 2.65.
Here,
ACE GOLD EA Ver.1 — GENESIS —
is completed.
GENESIS — The Beginning
Just because it is finished,
does not mean ACE research is over.
Rather,
by studying for eight and a half years,
many new questions remain.
However,
I did not stuff those answers into Ver.1 by force.
That is because,
we can examine them further from here.
GENESIS.
As the name suggests,
this is not an ending,
it is the beginning of ACE research.