{"id":281126,"date":"2026-09-19T12:20:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T12:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/confirmation-eats-more-than-half-the-move-zigzag-indicator-strategy\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:20:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T12:20:42","slug":"confirmation-eats-more-than-half-the-move-zigzag-indicator-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/confirmation-eats-more-than-half-the-move-zigzag-indicator-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmation Eats More Than Half the Move | ZigZag Indicator Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EVJhHDqnvws?autoplay=1&#038;controls=1&#038;hl=en\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Backtesting a trading strategy in Python and MT5: how to test a forex EA or trading robot before you trade it.<\/p>\n<p>Hello! My name is Vasyl Lavrinenko, I am the prize winner of the MetaQuotes Championship in automated trading on the Forex market.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metaquotes.net\/en\/company\/news\/3504\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.metaquotes.net\/en\/company\/news\/3504<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Confirmation Eats More Than Half the Move.<br \/>\nWaiting for confirmation is not a tuning problem. It is arithmetically unprofitable, always.<\/p>\n<p>This video is part of the course &#8220;Forex Algorithmic Trading: Backtesting Strategies in Python&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/course\/test-it-before-you-trade-it-backtests-without-curve-fitting\/?referralCode=AAFD579BEC179990057A\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.udemy.com\/course\/test-it-before-you-trade-it-backtests-without-curve-fitting\/?referralCode=AAFD579BEC179990057A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<br \/>\n0: 00 Intro: confirmation costs more than the move<br \/>\n0: 20 Wait for confirmation?<br \/>\n0: 38 How big the swings really are<br \/>\n1: 05 The price of confirming a turn<br \/>\n1: 42 The ticket costs more than the move<br \/>\n2: 06 Machine learning did not fix it<br \/>\n2: 45 When the structure is wrong<br \/>\n3: 13 Measure your move and your entry cost<\/p>\n<p>Topics: backtesting a trading strategy, trading strategy testing, forex EA backtest, backtesting on MT5 and in Python, overfitting in trading, algorithmic trading strategies.<br \/>\n#backtesting #tradingstrategy #forex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backtesting a trading strategy in Python and MT5: how to test a forex EA or trading robot before you trade it. 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