December 14th, 2005, 11:52 pm
What's the point? I could roll some dice and track the returns. At the end of it, I wouldn't know anything about the dice I didn't know at the beginning. The amount you will learn about your strategy by having two years of hypothetical returns in hand, is crumbs compared to the amount you will learn in two years, right? If your strategy is high-frequency, you should be able to accumulate capital fairly quickly, assuming you already know something about the dice. If you can't predict what the expected returns are without the two years experience - and you probably can't - then the two years experience won't help you much...