In this paper we utilize White's Reality Check bootstrap methodology (White (1997)) to evaluate simple technical trading rules while quantifying the data-snooping bias and fully adjusting for its effect in the context of the full universe from which the trading rules were drawn. Hence, for the...

Data sharing is common practice in forecasting experiments in situations where fresh data samples are difficult or expensive to generate. This means that forecasters often analyze the same data set using a host of different models and sets of explanatory variables. This practice introduces...