# trading systems and risk / research method

- Written pre-registrations before code, sha256-pinned, amended only by dated addenda
- In-sample/holdout splits, placebo and shuffled nulls, Newey-West statistics
- 80+ study directories; about 70 percent of studies with a verdict killed
- Nightly research runner with a monthly spend cap

Up: https://matthewguo.me/p/trading_systems_and_risk

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