#CommunityAMA Driving the Adoption of Specific Backtesting Software Discussions within online forex trading communities can collectively drive the widespread use of specific backtesting software. When members share the results of their backtests, tutorials on how to use a particular software, or discussions on its accuracy and features, a collective understanding of its value emerges. This peer-driven validation influences individual traders to download or purchase the same software to test their own strategies, leading to a community-wide standardization of the backtesting process. This encourages a more systematic and data-driven approach to strategy development, but can also lead to a collective over-optimization of strategies on the same historical data, potentially leading to similar failures in live trading.