It's All Because of Bad Market Conditions

Article translated from: https://botacademy.ddns.net/

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This is the most common excuse used by unprepared users when their bots lose money (and things are going badly). Yes, the market might be bad, but your strategy itself has problems. A "bad" market only exposes your strategy's flaws.

Let me explain with a simple analogy. Suppose you have a child, and you teach him to swim in a swimming pool. After the child learns to swim, the next day you take him to the beach. You say to him: "Swim as far as you can." At first, the child might be fine. But the farther he swims, the stronger the current becomes, and he starts to struggle. By the time he drowns, and people blame you for letting him swim in the sea, your response is "the sea current/waves were too dangerous."

Before letting the child swim in the sea, some preparation needs to be done. For example, some swimming pools can generate waves. First, have the child test there. Do they have enough physical strength to handle the waves? When training the child earlier, how strong were the waves? How long could the child stay in the waves? And all the other necessary preparation to build experience and skill.

It's the same with trading strategies. Have you trained it in extreme bull and bear markets? Have you made sure the tests simulate the actual trading environment (for example, avoiding trailing stop traps)?