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In this week's episode of Line Your Own Pockets, Michael and I have a heated discussion on swing trading versus day trading.

It starts innocently enough with a question about how to backtest a swing trading strategy with a "trail forever" component.

But then it quickly turns into a swing trading versus day trading cage match.

We do finally end up agreeing on the fundamental approach to backtesting a swing trading strategy - barely.

Topics discussed:

• The differences between backtesting a day trading and a swing trading strategy
• Open-ended trailing exits make backtesting more complicated, and how to handle this in your test
• How outliers can affect your backtest and how the trailing-exit component can magnify them
• Overlapping positions suck up buying power, creating an overnight choke-point

And much more...

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Before you go!

The next time you find yourself in a drawdown, I want you to stop what you're doing and head on over to betterbacktesting.com to sign up for my free backtesting email course.

I hope to see you there!