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STAGE 4 · CHECKRIDE

Strategy & Research checkride

Five questions. Score at least four correctly to pass. Retry as often as you need; feedback explains each answer.

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01 Which statement makes a stronger research hypothesis?This pattern always worksTraders love this setupThis rule has positive net expectancy during defined sessions after costs

02 What is the biggest problem with 'enter when price looks strong'?It is not sufficiently defined for reproducible testingIt uses too many numbersIt can only be used overnight

03 What is look-ahead bias?Using information at test time that wasn't known at the trade decisionFailing to use a long enough monitorAlways trading in the morning

04 When does an out-of-sample dataset lose its holdout role?When it is consulted to optimize the rulesWhen it is stored offlineWhen it contains losing trades

05 What should happen when you materially change a strategy rule?Keep the same version and replace old resultsCreate a new documented version and reevaluateHide the old results

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