After collecting the backtest data from your latest systematic trading system, the final step is to decide whether or not the strategy is fit to be used in a live setting. Subjectively, there are a range of indicators that could be looked into to take the final decision. Here we will consider one that is based around the observed average return-per-trade. It is a particularly interesting approach as it allows us to derive the probability for the strategy to have an edge.
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