Each note takes one thing a backtest report doesn’t show you and works it through with exact arithmetic.
How often noise clears the bar, the best figure noise hands you, and where the bar moves after a sweep of forty variants.
A daily value pulled onto an intraday chart reads a candle that hasn’t closed on the live bar and only finished ones on history. Two fixes that don’t work, and the one that does.
Profit factor, win rate and trade count give you the payoff, the breakeven, an honest interval, the expectancy and the cost that erases it.
Wilder’s smoothing versus an EMA: one constant, double the lag, and a different set of threshold crosses on the same chart.
Historical simulations are not live results. Nothing on this site is investment advice.