Cross-validation

When trading strategies that have shown strong performance in backtesting are applied to new data, they often prove to be fragile or may even fail catastrophically. This usually happens due to backtest overfitting, which can be detected and avoided with proper cross-validation.

✅ We will start with manual cross-validation, then cover different splitting schemes and techniques for analyzing split distributions. Finally, we will go over how to automate various cross-validation steps, from splitting regular arrays and complex VBT objects to testing entire parameter-based and ML-based pipelines 🔥

Topics

Workflow

Understand validation schemes and diagnose backtest overfitting

Splitter

Learn how to build a splitter for cross-validation in VectorBT PRO

Applications

Learn how to apply a splitter for cross-validation in VectorBT PRO