Sornette LPPL program

From what I understand, the code is actually working
Though the parameters may be
not within the range that LPPL papers defined, the curve fitting is OK.
but crude. He is optimizing over 7 parameters instead of what Sornette proposes in his latest papers (slaving 4 parameters).
So he gets stuck in the first local minimum in an unnecessary blown up search space.
Do you expect much from LPPL?
I found Sornettes trading simulations rather discouraging.
 
From what I understand, the code is actually working

but crude. He is optimizing over 7 parameters instead of what Sornette proposes in his latest papers (slaving 4 parameters).
So he gets stuck in the first local minimum in an unnecessary blown up search space.
Do you expect much from LPPL?
I found Sornettes trading simulations rather discouraging.

I expect a lot ha ha. Yeah it should be 4 parameters instead of 7. How do you try out LPPL?
 
I expect a lot ha ha.
Is that irony (i am not a native speaker)?
A few years ago we tested it at my former employer. Wasn't really successful.
Sornette published a paper where he combined it with pattern recognition to do actual trading. Could not find it on his page but the results were not impressive.
Anyway you can't use R or matlab to program it properly because you need to intercept gaussian elimination and simplex optimization. Take "numerical recipes" then it should not take more than a week.
 
Is that irony (i am not a native speaker)?
A few years ago we tested it at my former employer. Wasn't really successful.
Sornette published a paper where he combined it with pattern recognition to do actual trading. Could not find it on his page but the results were not impressive.
Anyway you can't use R or matlab to program it properly because you need to intercept gaussian elimination and simplex optimization. Take "numerical recipes" then it should not take more than a week.

You work in a trading firm so you do backtest for your job?
 
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