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Most edges fail validation. That is the process working.

DEFINEDT1 · 1.5h · Technical Track

The quant research process & why most strategies die

Most strategies fail from process failure, not from markets becoming efficient. The professional research loop, the six primary kill points, and a checklist you can use before writing another line of strategy code.

In this module

  1. Why this module exists
  2. The proper quant research loop
  3. The six primary reasons strategies die
  4. 1. Overfitting
  5. 2. Look-ahead bias / data leakage
  6. 3. Unrealistic transaction costs and market impact
  7. 4. Regime blindness
  8. 5. No risk or sizing framework
  9. 6. Research-to-live gap
  10. Practical research checklist
  11. Where Freqedge fits
  12. Key takeaways
Practice

Write your first falsifiable hypothesis

Open Edge Lab and create a new edge. Write one clear hypothesis: the entry rule, the exit rule, and the reason it should work. Come back when the edge exists in the DEFINED stage.

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