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Oct 24, 2026 5 min read

How to Use a Forex Strategy Tester to Evaluate Trading Rules

A forex strategy tester, whether MetaTrader's built-in one, a platform's replay mode or a spreadsheet, is only as honest as the setup it is given. This guide walks through the setup that produces a trustworthy result: data quality and the modelling mode, spread and slippage, the parameters to fix before the run, the report metrics that predict live performance and the ones that mislead, and the optimisation trap that turns a tester into a fitting machine.

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Oct 19 5 min read

Fair Value Gaps (FVG): How to Identify and Test Trading Setups

Fair value gap trading rests on a three-candle pattern that marks where price moved faster than it could be matched. The gap fills more often than not, which is both why it works and why it is over-traded. This guide gives the identification rule, the three things that happen when price returns, the context that separates a gap worth trading from one that is merely a gap, and a procedure for testing an FVG setup on your own pair before risking money on it.

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Oct 17 6 min read

Forex Backtesting: How to Test a Strategy Without Cherry-Picking Results

Forex backtesting fails more often from the tester than from the strategy: rules that are tightened after seeing the losses, data that stops at a convenient date, costs that are left out. This guide sets out a procedure that makes cherry-picking hard: rules written before the data is opened, a sample large enough to contain the bad streaks, costs modelled honestly, a walk-forward split, and a results table that reports the numbers that predict live performance.

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