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Choosing from the top 250 now biases it upwards. If you did the same for the top 250 stocks by market cap you should significantly beat the market with the sam

by ikeboy 9y ago

Choosing from the top 250 now biases it upwards. If you did the same for the top 250 stocks by market cap you should significantly beat the market with the same methods. Also, not all these coins were around a year ago. Does the code handle that or just return nonsense? Edit: trying manually returns "Oh Nooooo!!! I just broke the blockchain. Please try again."

martinko 9y ago
> If you did the same for the top 250 stocks by market cap you should significantly beat the market with the same methods Nonsense. If it was so easy to beat the market, I assume you're leveraged up and exploiting this opportunity?
ciocan42 9y ago
Thanks for the input. It picks randomly from the list; if the coin is not listed at that time it chose another one until fits. "Oh Nooo" error is returned when cryptocompare api fails.
- ikeboy 9y ago
  I got that error by putting in NMR manually into the URL in another comment here from January 31 2017.
- ikeboy 9y ago
  If you want to fix the bias issue, take the top 250 from a year ago and choose randomly from them.
smnrchrds 9y ago
Yes. Current top 250 are the ones who survived and succeeded. It would not show what would have happened if you invested in 6 random coins. A better approach would be to choose from the top 250 at time of purchase.
b4lancesh33t 9y ago
No wonder it seems like you can't lose money. Thanks.