Everyone says you need PF 1.5+ and 80%+ win rate or your strategy is trash. My bot has 63% WR and 1.35 PF over 1,900 trades and compounds at 55% annually. Is 1.5+ and 80% WR actually real or do people just say that to sell their courses?

Curious what actual systematic traders think. I've been building a swing trading bot and stress-testing it — bootstrap, slippage, top-N truncation, market capture, all that. The numbers keep coming back solid but the ratios aren't "textbook perfect." In practice, a 1.35 PF with 63% WR over 1,900 trades seems to compound fine ($10k → $86k in 5 years). Am I missing something, or are those "required" numbers just guru marketing?urious what actual systematic traders think. I've been building a swing trading bot and stress-testing it — bootstrap, slippage, top-N truncation, market capture, all that. The numbers keep coming back solid but the ratios aren't "textbook perfect." In practice, a 1.35 PF with 63% WR over 1,900 trades seems to compound fine ($10k → $86k in 5 years). Am I missing something, or are those "required" numbers just guru marketing?