Optimus Guide | Walk Forward Optimization in NinjaTrader 7

Backtests and optimizations not correlating with your forward testing? You're probably running into curve-fitting, it's our biggest issue with automated strategy development, and almost unavoidable to some extent. However, with the Walk Forward Optimizer that NinjaTrader 7 offers in the Strategy Analyzer, you can take some strong steps in ensuring it doesn't happen to you. The Walk Forward Optimizer is the least utilized and most important tool an automated trading system developer has at his disposal, and that's mainly because it's so confusing and misunderstood. You need to be using it though, so watch this video and learn how to use it and what it does, so you're not stuck in the same old rut of backtesting and optimizing only to have a system that performs terribly live.