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196: “How to avoid curve fitting using independent testing” – Jeff Swanson

Better System Trader

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Is There a Maximum Number of Filters?

Traders often stack too many filters on top of each other, and they have issues with over fitting. As you add more filters, you're going to restrict the number of trades so you'll have a smaller number of trades. You don't have to have a beautiful looking equity curve. And ah, not actually torture the data. So that's what i have in my head. I want to keep it as minimum as possible.

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