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Michael's avatar

"Buy and hold returned 129.6%. My sophisticated strategy underperformed by 20%." That's a brutal benchmark. Easy to forget that the complexity has to justify itself against doing nothing.

I've started requiring strategies to beat a random baseline by a statistically significant margin before I take them seriously. Similar idea though different framing.

Scared of crypto though - still too Wild West for me. In fairness, I'm undoubtedly missing great opportunities though.

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K. Iyer's avatar

Absolutely. I do plan on using the framework on a larger dataset and build additional models, but it was still a fun exercise to test the waters!