TechHacker Noonabout 4 hours ago
Paper Trading Won't Prove Your Strategy Works
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Paper trading cannot prove a strategy works because simulators never reproduce live slippage or API timeouts. A live bot duplicated a position on day three after five clean paper weeks. Demo fills ignore costs, hiding roughly 0.1% to 0.5% slippage during fast moves.
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