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Old 2009-03-09, 08:39 AM   #12 (permalink)
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There's a problem, though. I did some true walk-forward testing with this AI. For example, optimize from January-June 2007 then test your optimized parameters in July 2007. That way, there's no cheating--it's just like you had been optimizing and trading in real-time.

The results weren't pretty. I didn't systematically test for every month, but the 8 or so periods I tested were all losers. I suggest others do the same kind of testing. If you just optimize on recent history, you'll always get great results.
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