Dear Nonlinear,

did you also retest outside the scope of the training set?
I finally got around on the weekend doing this, but while I got
improvement over the training set,
I did not get very much improvement outside the training set..

Klaus


On Mar 14, 7:54 pm, nonlinear <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I think, it is perfectly right to differentiate between up- and
> > downward trends.
> > By and large downward seems in general much faster.
> > This would speak for a difference in parameters.
> > I always wanted to look at what happens if you do separately optimize
> > a upward-only
> > and a downward-only strategy and compose it later (going flat if both
> > are opposing)
> > and compare this with two-sided optimization.
>
> I separated my log-short strategies into long-only and short-only, and
> reoptimized. Got a big boost on all performance metrics. Don't know why this
> idea never occurred to me in the past several years that I spent on strategy
> design.  

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