I Made My Forex Bot Faster. It Lost 16x More Money. (2026)
In Episode 7 our strategy failed the 3 year stress test β minus $43. Claude said the 50/200 SMA was too slow for M15. So we tried shorter SMAs β the 20/50 β that react faster to price changes. The result? 970 trades. 39.6% win rate. Minus $689. 16 times worse than before. Faster SMAs don’t mean better signals β they just mean more noise. The problem was never the…









