Temporal (in)stability of trading system optimization curves

Source: forexautomaton.com

For the first time, I address the question of how stable the optimization results are in time. While predictabilities of daily high and low show a highly stable pattern of dependence on the parameter subject to optimization, the positive results for close are mainly due to the high impact of a single period, which happens to cover the financial panic of the last quarter of 2008.


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