The reality is, perhaps, that this works very much better with some styles of trading than with others. You make it sound as if it's "terribly obvious" that that's so, and that anything different from that would necessarily be laughable (as neatly ...

1% Money Management is a myth, fib is a myth and so on..

I've read most of the books mentioned above. Opinions will always vary about these things, but I think some of them aren't for noobs at all: what I found far more valuable than any of them, when I was starting off, was "Trading By The Book" by the ...

A Good Forex Trading Book For A Noob

For me, it's not about "how long". It's about "how many trades". You should test until the results are statistically significant within the limits you've pre-defined for yourself, according to how risk-averse you are. It's a statistical function: ...

How long should you test a strategy?