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Strategies & Market Trends : Neural Nets - A tool for the 90's -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brian Hornby who wrote (562)	4/8/1999 10:46:00 AM
From: Optim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 871

Actually AOL posed a bit of a problem for me. I tried a number of inputs and very few of the nets generated were able to outperform buy and hold. Most achieved about 85% or so. I think with the mania in the Internets, the data is unrealistically skewed to the upside. Most of the nets that have been profitable for me are have made less than 5 trades in the last 6 months. So I have simply bought AOL and tucked it away. Of course after yesterday's close I am wondering if I did the right thing. Optim