Author name: Bhavishya Goyal

Bhavishya Goyal is a quantitative trading educator and developer specializing in automated trading systems, futures market analysis, and order flow strategies. He builds and tests algorithmic trading setups for NQ/ES/CL futures using TradingView, Tradovate, and MetaTrader. Founder of PickMyTrade, a platform for automated trading via API webhooks. Follow on YouTube @MrBhavishya for strategy tutorials and live trade breakdowns.

World Number 2 Trader Marci Silfrain Strategy
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World Number 2 Trader Marci Silfrain Strategy

Gold buy-and-hold returned 134% from November 2022 to November 2025. Solid for a safe-haven asset. Marci Silfrain Strategy on the same instrument, same period, at 5% risk per trade: +1,574.32%. That is an 11.7× difference — not from a secret indicator or a curve-fitted model, but from a structured pullback pattern that has existed in

Walk-Forward Optimization blog cover with the headline "Walk-Forward Optimization: Why 90% of Backtests Fail" beside a chart showing rolling in-sample and out-of-sample trading windows stepping upward.
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Walk-Forward Optimization: Why 90% of Backtests Fail

Your backtest showed a 2.4 Sharpe and a smooth equity curve climbing left to right. Then you went live and the strategy bled out in three weeks. You’re not unlucky. You’re overfit. More than 90% of academic trading strategies fail with real capital despite posting double-digit backtested returns. The fix isn’t a better indicator. It’s

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