So far I have created three long trade Strategies for the CL that were profitable over the same three month period of testing. They each use the same stop-loss and profit target
But they are somewhat complex and to create short Strategies from them manually, would be a lot of work.
Luckily I found out that I could right-click on Set 1 in the 'Conditions and Actions' screen and choose, 'Duplicate In New Tab'. Great feature.
But when I did so, and then changed the parameters in Set 2 for short trades, then ran the Strategy in the Strategy Analyzer, there were no additional profits for having a long and short trades Strategy with the same inputs as my long only trades Strategy.
My long trades Strategy gives me a net profit of $510 over 27 trades with a Ratio of 1.77 and an Avg time in market of 11.93
My short trades Strategy gives me the exact same numbers.
My long and short trades Strategy (with identical settings but inverted for short entries in Set 2), gives me the exact same net profit and 'trades entered' number.
What could I be doing wrong when adding the short trades?
Screenshots attached.
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