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[amibroker] Re: Fitness Criteria that incorporates Walk Forward Result



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BTW Fred, 

Have you considered posting an article on Batman to the UKB - it 
doesn't appear to get its fair share of attention at present.

brian_z

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Fred" <ftonetti@xxx> wrote:
>
> If you are going to use the IS performance metrics how you suggest 
> then not only don't you believe they are worthless, you believe 
they 
> are more worthwhile then I do ...
> 
> WF testing is simply multiple OOS's ... If you believe in the 
latter 
> there's no reason not to believe and utilize the former unless of 
> course you believe that once you have a system that has been 
> successfully tested OOS that you'll never move at least the end 
date 
> of your IS forward and optimize again, whether you need to or not.
> 
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "brian_z111" <brian_z111@> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, that is true.
> > 
> > What I am suggesting is that if the OOS holds up then I can use 
the 
> > combined metrics of the IS and the OOS in say, Money Management 
or 
> > other downstream analysis (assuming that the system rules remain 
> > unchanged from the IS top model to the OOS validation).
> > 
> > When you say they 'fail the steps that follow' do you mean  WF 
> testing 
> > (are you an advocate of WF testing?) or do you add something 
extra 
> > (perhaps I should read your docs?)
> > 
> > brian_z
> > 
> > 
> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Fred" <ftonetti@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Personally I don't see in sample results as totally worthless 
nor 
> as 
> > > particularly worthwhile ... I only see them as an initial 
> yardstick 
> > > which results in a decision of whether or not additional work 
is 
> > > warranted i.e. if you can't make it work in sample then there's 
> > > probably no point in looking beyond ... If you can it doesn't 
> mean 
> > it's 
> > > tradable.  Frankly I toss more systems because they fail in the 
> steps 
> > > that follow then because I can't make the in sample results 
look 
> good.
> > >
> >
>



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