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What is a survival bias and how to avoid it?

A simple factor you need to consider when evaluating different trading strategies

Markus Rene Pae
Towards Data Science
4 min readFeb 7, 2020

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In one of my previous articles, I built a trading simulator and presented some results. Those results were too good to be true, yet I was in seventh heaven. It was stated to me that I was a victim of something called “survival bias”.

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