u/TieVirtual9980

Its been a year since I have completed my Masters in Earthquake engineering, and I have not done anything, I am using Claude too much and building stuffs that i think does not matter, I recently made a compliance check for etabs which will extract every data of etabs and check if its aligned with the Code or not, but other than that I dont have much going on, I cannot go work as a Structural engineer because of my lower back pain, I thought I would take a break for a year to fix my back pain but its like I am good no pain for 2/3 mnths after that all of the sudden my back goes bananas again, I am looking for remote opportunities but for an engineer I dont think there are much opportunities, maybe I am thinking of helping engineers use claude code effectively? I dont know what do you guys recommend I do, feeling kind of super down at the moment, and I am already 27 with nothing in life. Currently in Nepal

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This is the result I got from Back testing my apps recommendation system
While I am skeptical about it I have done multiple test

I built a rule based system that picks stocks. I'm skeptical of my own results

Results (simulated, costs included):

• Win rate: 57% over 70 trades (~30-day average hold)
• Avg per trade: ~+2.7% net of fees/tax (+3.9% gross)
• Cumulative: +56.8% net · Profit factor ~1.8 net · Max drawdown ~−16%

What I did to check it's not just curve-fitting:

• Replayed the exact rules across 2007–2026 — data it was never tuned on — and the core edge held in both old and recent market periods.
• Deflated Sharpe Ratio = 0.996 and Probability of Backtest Overfitting = 0.006 (both say the picks aren't an overfit fluke).
• Compared against 2,000 random portfolios under the same liquidity/volatility rules it beat them, but only by a modest margin.

So does this look like a real edge, or the classic "great backtest, dies live"? What would you think?