How To Segment Your Out of Sample Trades
Last week, we reviewed a powerful technique for building confidence in your strategy called in-sample/out-of-sample testing. There are…
Should You Turn Off Your Strategies on Crazy Days?
On this week’s episode of Line Your Own Pockets, we discuss whether to disable trading strategies on days…
A Way To Predict The Future
Of course, you can’t really predict the future, and it’s easy to accidentally set up a backtest that…
The Easiest Way to Avoid Curve Fitting
Yesterday’s message was a thought exercise on the best ways to curve fit, hypothetically assuming that was your…
How to Curve Fit
One way to think about how NOT to curve fit when creating a trading strategy is to imagine…
Fixing Curve Fitted Strategies
Last time, Mateo shared how he determined that his strategy was curve-fitting. Most traders give up on their…
Turning a Trading Weakness into an Advantage
In this week’s episode of Line Your Own Pockets, we discuss how one trader went from consistently losing…
Recognizing Curve Fitting
In response to my initial question when I introduced the topic of curve-fitting, fellow list member and trader…
Is Your Strategy Curve-Fitted?
In my last message, I talked about the worst thing that can happen with curve-fitting. Now I ask…
Curve Fitting – What’s the Worst That Can Happen?
Yesterday, I introduced this series on Curve Fitting. Ever since reading articles years ago about the dangers of…