He's being facetious. Why bother getting pulled in? Maybe it's better to just continue with your ideas.
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Good ideas. It is so difficult for the mind's intuition alone to make fast, reliable decisions over thousands of competing noisy hypotheses in...
I like to peruse older stuff from time to time. What are some of the books you would consider good from pre- 70s? Dow 2000 (1966), Benton...
+1 There is also google book previews; which can often give a flavor.
seems like I've encountered this in the past, but can't recall specifically what the reason was. I would check all mouse software settings in...
Not to take sides, but just use common sense. If a one yr time span had a very low volatility trending environment and you optimized 1000 1 minute...
Unfortunately, you are pasting a 'general' definition of overfitting from Wikipedia without really trying to understand the points I made. If...
For starters, you have to agree a bit about what it means to be overfit. It doesn't require matching every single point of the data series...
You are right about win rate; I was thinking in terms of probabilities. No, overfitting 1000 data points does not require 1000 parameters.
The metric above is not necessarily good as you are only looking at probabilities of binary events. What would the turtle trader results have...
A signal is just a term to describe what triggered your trade decision. All of the information you are aggregating (possibly sub-consciously)...
You might also look into empirical distributions and probabilities. We could get hit by a gigantic meteor some time, or the sun might implode,...
Did a search for elitetrader with the Gizoogle Search Engine... This almost seems appropriate here.:D
BBRY ... formally known as RIMM. Will AAPL change name to IPOD next?
There are tons of items you could give him to do. For instance, you could ask him to tabulate returns, distributions, statistics, etc.. and...
From a time series and econometrics perspective, you might want to look into various volatility estimators (GARCH, etc). Estimating volatility or...
Spread the word. It's today only and there are plenty of finance/trading titles as well....
I don't know much about windows 8, but I can say from experience that when I tried to run AMD video card drivers with ubuntu 11 and dual-monitors,...
I guess I am the only one who had frequent issues viewing the site yesterday night and a few times today? I captured the errors for feedback in...
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