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title: "Backtesting Strategies with R"
author: "Tim Trice"
date: "2016-05-06"
tags: [Statistics, Market]
link: "https://timtrice.github.io/backtesting-strategies/"
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Backtesting strategies with R [...] This book is designed to not only produce statistics on many of the most common technical patterns in the stock market, but to show actual trades in such scenarios. Test a strategy; reject if results are not promising Apply a range of parameters to strategies for optimization Attempt to kill any strategy that looks promising. Let me explain that last one a bit. Just because you may find a strategy that seems to outperform the market, have good profit and low drawdown this doesn’t mean you’ve found a strategy to put to work. On the contrary, you must work to  ...
