Overfitting (curve fitting)
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Every dataset contains patterns that happened by chance. If you adjust a strategy's parameters until the historical results look ideal, you inevitably absorb some of that noise — and noise does not repeat. The result is a strategy that looks brilliant in the backtest and mediocre or worse live.
Symptoms include: many finely-tuned parameters, performance that collapses when a parameter moves slightly, and results that differ wildly between adjacent time periods. Robust strategies tend to keep working across a range of settings.
Covered in depth in Lesson 04: Backtesting sin engañarte.
Related terms
- Backtest — Running a strategy against historical price data to see how its rules would have behaved in the past.
- Forward test — Running a strategy on live or demo markets going forward, after development, to see if backtest behavior holds up.
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Lecciones ocasionales y en lenguaje claro sobre trading automatizado — el mismo tono que todo en este sitio. Sin señales, sin promesas; date de baja cuando quieras.
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- El plan de estudios completo como guía imprimible.
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