No, 1/2-2/3 are not that useful such as what is hypothesis testing etc, but remaining are relevant points on backtesting such as system bias/de-trending, walk-forward, data mining biases, etc.
You're talking Systems Trading? I started a Thread on that a Year of so ago. Chan was recommended, from memory. Have dig through the System Trading threads.
I think this guys a user here; the name sounds familiar. I recall reading something in the guys blog that I liked a year or two ago. I didnt know he had a book. @PPC is this you? If it isnt, sorry i'm way off about the username
Adam Grimes? Robert Carver as GlobalArbTrader pops up here too. He writes Algo Books. @lime https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/best-algo-trading-books.371817/
Haven't read the book or any other one that "tests" trading ideas. I already know that you can't just buy/sell when RSI exits OS/OB levels, or when a fast MA crosses a slow MA, etc. Is there anything else beyond those basic trading ideas that the author says that fails?