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Maintaining a Research Graveyard?

Steve LeCompte | | Posted in: Investing Expertise

How should investors think about strategies featured as attractive by researchers and investment advisors? In his August 2026 paper entitled "Test Everything, Publish Both Results: A Protocol That Cuts Backtest False Positives from 37% to 0.4%", Alex Vidovich offers both researchers and consumers of investment strategy research guidance on assessing the rigor of investment strategies. Relying mainly on illustrative simulations, he concludes that:

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