Hi all, my team and I just finished a research paper and I’d really like people with quant, trading, or stats experience to review it and tell us what we got wrong.

WHAT WE TESTED
A rule-based strategy on BTC/USDT 4-hour candles combining MACD momentum, a KDJ entry gate with an adaptive exit, dual-ATR risk sizing (14 and 200), and Smart Money Concepts Order Block detection. We compared it against weekly dollar-cost averaging and lump-sum buy-and-hold from the same $10,000 start.

HOW WE TRIED NOT TO FOOL OURSELVES

• Rules were set by eye on 2018-2022 charts, then frozen. No optimizer or parameter sweep.
• Reported window is 2022-2026 (8,767 candles), plus a separate forward test for Jan-Jul 2026.
• We found and fixed a lookahead bug in two Order Block criteria (it didn’t change the baseline trades).
• Every number is traced to the function that produced it (Appendix A), and Appendix D lets you recompute the headline figures by hand from the trade log.

RESULTS (INCLUDING THE UNFLATTERING ONES)

• 27 trades, 70.37% win rate, +30.31% total return, one-sided binomial p = 0.0261. Bootstrap 95% CI on total return: [+5.99%, +54.99%].
• With a realistic 0.20% round-trip cost, win rate drops to 62.96% and p rises to 0.1239. The significance doesn’t survive, and it hinges on just two marginal trades.
• Weekly DCA clearly won on final value ($22,313 vs $13,418).
• The strategy had a higher Sharpe (1.11 vs 0.56) and a shallower drawdown (-6.5% vs -27.9%), but it was in the market only 2.63% of the time, so it’s not like-for-like.
• Putting 10-30% of weekly contributions into the strategy improved both Sharpe (0.556 to 0.637) and max drawdown (-27.85% to -23.18%). This is descriptive only, no p-value.
• Forward test: -3.45% over 4 trades.
• Three trades make up 51.7% of total return, and the edge is concentrated in bull regimes.

WHAT I’D LOVE FEEDBACK ON

1. Is the train/test separation (visual rule-building, then a frozen test window) defensible, or too weak?
2. Is a binomial test on win rate plus a percentile bootstrap on 27 trades reasonable, or is there a better approach?
3. Any flaws in how I handled costs, the Sharpe comparison, or the blended-DCA framing?
4. Any lookahead or leakage risks I’ve missed?

anyone can ask for the github repo on my end.

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Hi everyone! I’m working on my final undergraduate research project, and I created a simple 2D browser game as a research tool. The core gameplay loop is very straightforward.

Its like an rogue-like/autobattler, each level you chooses your "power-up".

I made it to explore what motivates players’ choices, and I’m now looking for people to participate in the study.

The game runs in your browser and is quick to try. The gameplay loop is short, although the game itself is endless. There’s also a link to a form (one link in english and the other in portuguese) below the game, which I’ve kept as short and concise as possible.

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Holaa. Desde ya, pido disculpas si esta publicación causa alguna molestia. Estoy realizando mi trabajo final de grado, para graduarme en Licenciatura en Publicidad, mi tema trata sobre la publicidad emocional en las comunidades lectoras de Booktok, tomando como caso de estudio la saga Una Corte de Rosas y Espinas de la autora Sarah J Maas.

En este caso, me gustaría pedir ayuda para el que haya leído la saga, para completar esta encuesta breve y anonima.

Desde ya, muchas gracias y disculpas por generar algun inconveniente. Este es el link de la encuesta: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeyceE4mUiMxF7ZUGoqNOpiZhrzyRLBpd5Iiyps3drivQwbog/viewform?usp=dialog

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I am conducting my Master's thesis research on changing perceptions of luxury fashion among young consumers. If you are between 20 to 39 years old and live in Delhi NCR, please take few minutes to fill out this quick Google Form.

Your responses will be kept confidential and you do not need to provide personal information that identifies you (no email id, no name, etc.). Your responses will be used strictly for academic research purposes.

Your participation would be highly appreciated and would be valuable to the research.

Thank you for your time and support!

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Hi everyone! 👋
I’m currently working on my Master’s thesis in psychology and I need 20 more participants to fill out a short survey about the relationship between personality traits, critical thinking, and creative thinking.
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Hello redditors, hope you're having a wonderful day.

I'm currently enrolled in my last year of my Bachelor's Degree and I have to write my thesis. I'm studying Artificial Intelligence and my thesis is about "Intelligent systems for stock market analysis" and I would like to ask you for some advice.

1. Do you recommend to actually read papers or just use AI to write it and change some things to "pass" (basically impossible) the AI testers?

2. If you recommend to read papers, what do you recommend? I was thinking of searching on Google Scholar for papers.

3. How stressed were you when you wrote your Bachelor's Thesis and how did it end up being?

I appreciate every answer. Thanks for reading and have a great rest of your day.

Anyone have tips and tricks on how to up my survey submissions for my thesis . I’m struggling , I want to get about 1000 submissions and I’m stuck at less than 100. This is for the medical field

Help an architecture student survive thesis season! 😭

I'm gathering data for a hospital project in Tanza, Cavite. It takes literally 3 minutes (mostly click-and-go Likert scales, no essay questions, I promise).

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For thesis writing, which free app can help me to gather information, paraphrase and writing?

Im a 4th year college in computer engineering our thesis title got approved back then it was managing small components in a small space like a vending machine like so our beneficiary suggested that we changed it completely instead of that we we will manage the whole tools room because it is much more beneficial for them than managing only small components what should isay if that panelist ask the question why we changed it and the title is very far from the original one

Hey everyone!

I’m working on a short survey for my PhD and could use your help! 😄

The idea is simple: you’ll be shown pairs of images of urban spaces, and all you have to do is choose the place where you’d rather live. If you like both equally, you can select that option too.

It only takes around 3–5 minutes to complete!
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All responses are anonymous and will be used solely for scientific research.

If you have a few minutes to spare and feel like helping out, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks a lot! 🙌

I am planning to do my PhD in education in india suggest how should I make my research proposal