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Pseudo-Mathematics and Financial Charlatanism: The Effects of Backtest Overfitting on Out-of-Sample Performance

Notices of the American Mathematical Society·2014·Vol. 61(5), pp. 458–458

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David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein, Marcos López de Prado, Qiji Jim Zhu

Abstract

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

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