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stats·Statistics & risk

DSR

Deflated Sharpe Ratio. Adjusts naive Sharpe for the number of trials, return non-normality, and sample size — i.e., the bias farm.

formula
DSR = SR · √( (1 − γ₃·SR + (γ₄−1)/4·SR²) · (1 − e^…) )

How the desk uses this

Statistics and risk terms like this one are the backbone of how the desk sizes positions and reports edge — not vibes, math.

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