If backtest does not give good results, do you skip the trade ?

[Manish71]

 

Here is one trade I am looking at:

Sell -4 CREDIT SPREAD IYR DEC 79/82 CALL @.71 Credit. The PoP is decent.

But the back test using Cmlviz does not give good results with respect to % return and win rate. In such cases do you skip the trade ?

Also in general, a question for experienced traders: Do you trade a strategy for an underlying if and only if the back test has given good results over 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 5 years etc ?

 

[Manish71]

Folks,

Any inputs ?

Thanks.