I see that your ego was hurt so badly that you decided
I agree. That’s what I have been intuitively feeling for a long time now. That’s why I came up with my latest strategy that does them both and uses 27 pairs for maximum diversification (excl. gbpnzd) + frequent re-optimization.
That’s why I feel that it’s worth keeping up with.
Anyway, with all the countless backtesting I have done, I don’t see how equity or index trading can beat forex. The only profitable stock trading strategy that I could come up with is really slow paced (based on my investing strategy). Anything fast only showed failure.