Arthur@ArthurResearch
Qualitative vs. quantitative analysis
A mechanical strategy stripped of context will almost always look broken in a backtest, No macro filter, no higher timeframe bias, no session awareness, no news consideration
Of course the results are poor
@MrZincx version isn't a different strategy, it's the same one, properly contextualized.
That's what makes it work
I understand Zinc has a bias, he's promoting a platform, an indicator, and memberships, which isn't inherently bad if done ethically. But this is exactly what I don't like: no one can argue against the effect it has on people who believe that a single-timeframe indicator will get them the same results as someone with years of context behind every decision. That type of marketing, even when done ethically, is by default misleading. You're selling a tool as if it were the edge itself.
This is why I emphasize that trading is hard, but teaching trading is harder, most traders apply layers of context intuitively without realizing it
The second you strip that out and hand someone a naked mechanical system, you've removed the actual edge
