FX · FX specialist topics · lesson 9 of 9 · 8 min read · David Alexander
Complication usually makes it worse
degrees of freedom
The number of things in a strategy that were chosen by fitting them to your sample. Every parameter, filter and additional pair is another one, and each buys apparent improvement in the record you tested on at the cost of reliability in the record you have not seen yet.
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