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August 17, 2026 · 4 min read

A backtest result is a claim, not a finding

The expensive mistakes in my trading research were never bad ideas. They were good-looking numbers that passed every check I had, until I added the one that killed them.

  • Research methodology
  • Quantitative finance
  • Statistics
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