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AI Trading Bots: Losing Money at the Speed of Light

· money-satire

The bot that made 900% in a backtest and 0% in real life. Why trading-bot ads are a masterclass in overfitting, survivorship bias and fees.

Overfitting: When Your Model Memorised the Exam Answers

· machine-learning

A model that's perfect on training data and useless on new data is the classmate who memorised last year's paper. Here's how to spot it and fix it.