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      <description>Our GPU search found impressive backtests—and a locked holdout showed why most of them were noise.</description>
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      <description>How attractive historical results turn into fragile strategies—and the safeguards that expose them.</description>
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      <description>What OFI measures, why it differs from a price indicator, and why a feature is not automatically a trade.</description>
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      <description>Our strongest result was a defensive overlay that reduced drawdowns across an 18-coin study.</description>
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      <description>A strategy can win often and still be uninvestable. Here is what to measure instead.</description>
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      <description>Research across bull, bear, and range conditions shows where strategies are defensive—and where they fail.</description>
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      <description>What a cross-regime test says about grid trading’s upside trade-off and drawdown behavior.</description>
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      <description>The real trade-off behind Donchian breakouts: smaller bear losses in exchange for bull lag and range whipsaws.</description>
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