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A 3 year sample does not prove anything.
by computerex 9y ago
A 3 year sample does not prove anything.
- monochromatic 9y agoA 3 year sample with only one impressive year.
- dsacco 9y agoNot if you group all trading events into single data points by year it doesn't, but that's a silly way of analyzing them if you have extraordinary performance consistency on a day by day (or trade by trade!) basis.
- BeetleB 9y agoIn the end, all that we care about is the effective annual rate of return. It doesn't matter if you did 200 trades that year or 1 - the money is the same if you have the same RoR. The number of data points is important when looking for trends, or for cleanness of data. However, they're not showing us the data. It could be hugely volatile, or fairly linear.