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tclancytoday at 1:24 AM1 replyview on HN

I mean, run the experiment during a different trend in the market and the results would probably be wildly different. This feels like chartists [1] but lazier.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/chartist.asp


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refactor_mastertoday at 1:59 AM

If you've ever read a blog on trading when LSTMs came out, you'd have seen all sorts of weird stuff with predicting the price at t+1 on a very bad train/test split, where the author would usually say "it predicts t+1 with 99% accuracy compared to t", and the graph would be an exact copy with a t+1 offset.

So eye-balling the graph looks great, almost perfect even, until you realize that in real-time the model would've predicted yesterday's high on today's market crash and you'd have lost everything.