100% Win Rate in Backtesting? Don't Celebrate Yet — Our Most Painful Lesson

We developed a mean reversion strategy. Backtesting showed 3 out of 8 combinations hitting 100% win rate. Then we ran Out-of-Sample validation, and 100% crashed to 25%. Here’s what happened.

2026-03-05 · 4 min · 816 words · J (Tech Lead)
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