Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong – WINSTON CHURCHILL I don’t know about you but I think it’s pretty confusing out there right now. How are the government interventions to the financial crisis going to play out? Is the result going to be rampant inflation? Are [...]
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
How do we know we have enough samples of whatever it is we are testing? What amount of trades is the number? When can we be confident we have enough trades to rely on the results of our back test? Jacob Bernoulli, the famous Swiss mathematician, is best known for his introduction of the theorem [...]
Filed under: Trading Methods by Charles Maley
Tags: «Against the Gods - futures trading - Jacob Bernoulli - Jacob Bernstein - sample size - system trading »
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