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Christian Pichichero

Building Tradevo Data: point-in-time fundamentals that can't lie to your backtest. I write about lookahead bias and clean financial data.

What Regime Splits Actually Tell You (and Where the Math Runs Out)

What Regime Splits Actually Tell You (and Where the Math Runs Out)

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Return Concentration: How to Tell If Your Backtest Has Ten Trades or One

Return Concentration: How to Tell If Your Backtest Has Ten Trades or One

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Allowlists Are Not Spending Caps: Two Different Security Properties, Often Confused

Allowlists Are Not Spending Caps: Two Different Security Properties, Often Confused

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The Fill Model Is Where Backtests Quietly Cheat

The Fill Model Is Where Backtests Quietly Cheat

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What 'Revocable' Actually Means at the Contract Level

What 'Revocable' Actually Means at the Contract Level

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Scoped Permissions vs Custody: Letting Software Act On-Chain Without Holding Your Keys

Scoped Permissions vs Custody: Letting Software Act On-Chain Without Holding Your Keys

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What Shuffling Your Trade History Actually Tells You (And What It Doesn't)

What Shuffling Your Trade History Actually Tells You (And What It Doesn't)

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What a Clean Equity Curve Doesn't Prove

What a Clean Equity Curve Doesn't Prove

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Point-in-Time Fundamentals for Numerai Signals: Killing Lookahead in Your Feature Join

Point-in-Time Fundamentals for Numerai Signals: Killing Lookahead in Your Feature Join

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Why the Same Fundamental Lives Under Different XBRL Tags in SEC EDGAR

Why the Same Fundamental Lives Under Different XBRL Tags in SEC EDGAR

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SEC 10-K Filing Deadline Data: The Structural Reason Fundamentals Lag Weeks Behind

SEC 10-K Filing Deadline Data: The Structural Reason Fundamentals Lag Weeks Behind

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We Shipped a 10x Error on General Mills. Here's the Bug, and the Check That Would Have Caught It.

We Shipped a 10x Error on General Mills. Here's the Bug, and the Check That Would Have Caught It.

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As-Reported vs Restated Financial Data: Why the Difference Matters for Backtesting

As-Reported vs Restated Financial Data: Why the Difference Matters for Backtesting

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How to Detect Lookahead Bias in a Backtest: A Practical Checklist

How to Detect Lookahead Bias in a Backtest: A Practical Checklist

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Survivorship Bias vs Lookahead Bias: The Two Silent Backtest Killers

Survivorship Bias vs Lookahead Bias: The Two Silent Backtest Killers

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Point-in-Time Fundamentals Data: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Choose

Point-in-Time Fundamentals Data: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Choose

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Your Backtest Saw the Future: Lookahead Bias in Fundamental Data, Measured on the 2026-07-23 Snapshot

Your Backtest Saw the Future: Lookahead Bias in Fundamental Data, Measured on the 2026-07-23 Snapshot

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How to Build a Point-in-Time Fundamentals Database from SEC EDGAR (and When Not To)

How to Build a Point-in-Time Fundamentals Database from SEC EDGAR (and When Not To)

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