I backtested FXCM's Ideas 100 Times

I backtested FXCM 's ideas 100 times with several strategies.
This research contains:
(1) If it is worthy to buy cheaper than FXCM 's signal.
(2) If it is worthy to hunt FXCM 's stop loss.
(3) If FXCM 's signals take profit too quickly.
(4) If the price approaches FXCM 's target, will it go back to buy entry?

There are 5 strategies in this test case.
(1) Original : follow FXCM 's entry, stop loss and profit target.
If there are 2 profit targets in an idea, I treat it as 2 trades.
If there are no profit targets in an idea, I use 1:1 risk ratio.
(2) cheapo_q : shift down entry, stop loss and profit target by ( entry - stop loss ) * 0.25 .
(3) cheapo_h : shift down entry, stop loss and profit target by ( entry - stop loss ) * 0.5 .
(4) hunter : shift down entry, stop loss and profit target by ( entry - stop loss ) .
This strategy is for hunting FXCM 's stop loss.
(5) reversal : entry of reversal = FXCM 's target , target of reversal = FXCM 's entry.
Stop loss of reversal : use 1:1 risk ratio.

Quantity per trade:
50 shares for xau
100000 shares for eur,gbp,aud,nzd,usd,cad,chf

result
Strategy Win-Lose Profit-Loss
Original 45-50 31366.57 - 19460.67 = 11905.9
cheapo_q 29-44 20080.97 - 16040.95 = 4040.02
cheapo_h 26-36 19006.84 - 12609.71 = 6397.13
hunter 16-27 8809.81 - 8759.51 = 50.3
reversal 25-20 15816.03 - 14381.96 = 1434.07

Observation
* Some signals were generated when breakout, so waiting for pullback may miss some opportunities.
* Advice : also consider basics and sentiments to avoid non-profitable trades.
* Hunting FXCM 's stop loss is not profitable enough.
* FXCM 's followers can consider higher profit target but need to protect difficult-to-get profit.

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