How “Backtest Overfitting” in Finance Leads to False Discoveries
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How “Backtest Overfitting” in Finance Leads to False Discoveries

Abstract

Abstract: Financial investment strategies are often designed and tested using historical market data. But this can frequently give rise to “optimal” strategies that are statistical mirages and perform poorly out in the real world, as David H. Bailey and Marcos López de Prado explain

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