... Here's the dirty secret of trading: almost every "edge" you see online is fake. Not intentionally people just don't know how to test properly. They overfit to historical data. They don't correct for multiple testing. They cherry-pick the one timeframe where it worked. They look at in-sample results and think they found something. I saw this from the inside. I'm a quant I spent years watching even smart traders make the same statistical mistakes ... ... from pattern signals, not fit a model to historical equity curves. Stop-loss and take-profit optimization grid search across real parameters, not vibes, Multi-market validation your idea has to work across markets, not just the one you cherry