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assess_overfitting_risk

Score a strategy's overfitting risk from its full backtest history and get a recommended next action.

Area

Backtesting & Validation

Group

Robustness

Access

Read

Risk

Read-only

Details

Full description

Score overfitting risk after iterating on a strategy (multiple backtests, sweeps, walk-forward).

It examines the strategy's full backtest history and scores three signals: iteration trajectory (did Sharpe climb suspiciously across tweaks?), parameter sensitivity (does performance collapse with small changes?), and trade clustering (is edge concentrated in a few trades?).

Returns — an assessment with overall_risk, a summary, and a recommended_action (e.g. "run walk_forward", "drop, performance is regime-specific").

Requires at least one prior backtest on strategy_id. Pairs with walk_forward for out-of-sample validation.

assess_overfitting_risk(strategy_id)

Capabilities

Bounded options and operating modes surfaced above the full JSON schema.

No bounded capability options are declared for this tool.

Required Inputs

strategy_idstringStrategy identifier

Optional Inputs

None.
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