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Target annual returns for share trading? Tim - thanks for the welcome. I do have a confesion to make, and that is I have never traded a single share in my life! I'm a member of the GA (genetic algorithm) system developement/backtesting school of thought, and the other school of thought which...

In Design, Testing and Optimisation of Trading Systems by Pardo he suggests using standard error as a measure of precision in the value of a random variable (meaning the value of some function of your trading system like mean profit per trade). Pardo makes some assumptions in the use of...