On Day 19, we introduced circular block sampling and used it to test the likelihood the 200-day SMA strategy would outperform buy-and-hold over a five year period. We found that the 200-day outperformed buy-and-hold a little over 25% of the time acr...

On Day 18 we started to discuss simulating returns to quantify the probability of success for a strategy out-of-sample. The reason for this was we were unsure whether or how much to merit the 12-by-12’s performance relative to the 200-Day SMA. We di...

On Day 17 , we compared the 12-by-12 and 200-day SMA strategies in terms of magnitude and duration of drawdowns, finding in favor of the 200-day. We also noted that most of the contributors to the differences in performance were due to two periods a...

In an earlier post, I discussed adding conditional formatting to an Excel chart. One key benefit of using Python in Excel for this—rather than relying on standard Excel charting—is the flexibility it offers. With Python, it’s simpler to adjust the chart when adding new variables or expanding ...

On Day 16, we showed the adjusted 12-by-12 strategy with full performance metrics against buy-and-hold, the 60-40 SPY-IEF ETF portfolio, and the 200-day SMA strategy. In all cases, it tended to perform better than the benchmarks. However, against th...

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