Look-ahead bias
Technical analysisUsing information in a backtest that was not actually available at that point in time.
In plain terms
Trading on a quarterly result weeks before it was filed. Makes any strategy look brilliant.
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Glossary
Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.
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