This is the 4X Q&A podcast. This is VP, professional 4X prop trader here in the United States answering your user submitted

forX trading related questions every Monday morning.

Now if you have a 4X trading question on your mind and you have watched all of the material and you have not asked a question before, what you do is go to no nonsense 4X.com slash Ask VP, you've felt the form and then I will typically get back to

within 48 hours and one quick note on that question asking one question I'm

getting a lot of recently I didn't really get it much before but I'm getting a lot of recently.

I didn't really get it much before,

but I'm getting it a lot now,

is people wanting me to back test indicators

and entire trading systems for them.

And this is a ridiculous request.

Please don't ask me that.

I'll save you the question now if you were thinking about it.

Ask me something different.

Back testing is time consuming and that is your job.

And along those same lines don't ask me a question like,

so I have this indicator, this indicator, this indicator, what do you think of this system?

Because I'm not really going to know because the only way to know these things is to back test it.

And like I said before, I wasn't getting these questions often until probably the last two or three weeks.

So I just want to go ahead and put that out there now in case anybody was

thinking about that please just don't do your own work and do a thorough job we

just had a trading video come out called How to Lose.

And one of the biggest things I talked about in that video is just how important the back

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