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What Happens When You Remove the Lies From a Trading Backtest? 860 Strategy Configurations on 22 Years of EURUSD
I built a backtesting engine where look-ahead bias, optimistic fills and unreproducible results are structurally impossible — then ran 860 EMA crossover and RSI configurations across 23 years of daily EURUSD. The honest verdict: the most popular strategies in retail trading are zombies.