November 2012 - RobinTradingHub

The majority of the strategies commercially available suffer from this problem.

Trading costs are something that few people takes into account on automated trading even when it affects a lot on the profitability.

Sometimes we forget that the market can do whatever he wants and it's the EA work to react to any market behavior.

The beauty of this is that you just need a quick look at any published backtest to check almost all of them.

If you want to achieve long term profitability, there are some steps before committing real money to a given strategy.