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by minimaxir 3191 days ago
A statistical model based on bad/dependent features is essentially just random guessing, which in this case the model just makes favorable guesses.
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I experimented with the features until I got good results in my evaluations. If I am getting favorable guesses, how does that point to bad features. Favorable guesses is what I was going for in order to assist in trading decisions.

I use a 70/30 split of training/eval