This chapter explains why labeling is a critical step in supervised machine learning for finance.
Research Topics:
- This chapter addresses a fundamental flaw in modern portfolio theory: instability.
- This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the statistics required to evaluate a backtest, regardless of the backtesting paradigm used (historical, cross-validation, or synthetic).
- This chapter argues that backtesting is one of the most misunderstood and misused techniques in finance.
- This chapter argues that standard backtesting (historical simulation) is a flawed method for calibrating trading rules (like stop-losses and profit-taking barriers).