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For me the testing process whether it is backtesting / walk forward / Monte Carlo etc is the easy part, just a click of the button! How easy is that.

The hard part for me is trusting the system 100%, to just sit back and place orders daily / weekly has me looking at announcements / forum posts that ultimately acts as a new positionscore feature ( which obviously is not tested )

So [USER=82023]@Linus van Pelt[/USER] I agree that walk forward testing is as good as you are going to get but are you able to follow the system and by paper trading it then your may get a feel for it, but real life trading of having a loser or 2 in a row is the hard part.

This leads to risk management, if you have done this right then you should be fine and a loser or 2 won't hurt too much, but if you have this wrong you will come unstuck pretty quick, by this I mean that it you have optimised on only Net Profit then the System Drawdown might be unrealistic which will find you checking stock price moves every 30 minutes which is not a healthy way to trade a EOD system.

Something that is coming clear for me is what works for one will not work for another. Only you know what you can handle in regards to risk and you have to be honest with yourself, really honest. I obviously haven't got this right for me yet so I cannot tell you my secret, others might be closer and the diaries are a great insight to some of the struggles people go through.