Curve Fitting Is Like Cryptonite to All Systematic Traders

Jeff Swanson from EasyLanguageMastery discusses how to avoid curve fitting your trading strategies using the "independent testing" technique, including:

• The things traders do that cause curvefitting,
• Is curvefitting a trading strategy really that bad?
• Independent testing and why you should use it when developing trading strategies,
• How to do independent testing of filters and using optimization to judge filter consistency,
• Testing combinations of filters and why you should look to remove
• Plus, types of filters to test, where to get trading ideas, how long to test a trading idea, when to switch strategies off, combining filters, tweaking a strategy and much more!

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