u/ConsistentSoil2846

I’ve been trading US markets and noticed something that surprised me a bit.

Most people (including me earlier) think the hard part is finding good trading ideas… but in reality, that part is actually pretty quick once you’ve been in the game for a while.

The real time sink is everything after that: idea , backtesting , validation ,execution

For me,.. validation is where things usually break. A strategy can look amazing in one backtest, but fall apart completely when you test different conditions.

I ended up building a small tool around this to make that idea ,.validation step a bit faster and less messy.

Curious how others handle this:

What takes you more time ideas or validation?

How do you usually decide if a strategy is actually worth trusting?

Been thinking about how much time usually gets lost between coming up with a trading idea and actually testing and automating it, especially for US market strategies.

I’ve been experimenting with a simplified workflow that tries to compress the process (idea → backtest → validation → automation) into ~10 minutes.

Curious how others here handle this step in their process.