Is martin so bad? Or do you have to know how to cook it? - page 63

 
Edgar Akhmadeev:
That's what I'm saying - as the quality of EA trading improves the need for MM like Martin decreases. Probably doesn't get to zero though. I haven't found out yet. Work in progress.

Let's be clear about what we mean. Whether or not a strategy involves raising the stakes to diversify risk and increase IR is considered a Martin. I think not, because Martin is a strategy that essentially involves nothing but raising the bet.

 

And you disable one of the inputs and look at the result.

Why is martin bad: During optimization parameters are selected so as to pass all the "bad" parts of the history and not to fail. And even a test on a long history does not guarantee that there will not be a series of losses.

 
Aleksey Mavrin:

Martin is a strategy that essentially involves nothing more than raising the stakes.

The theoretical publications write that any improvement in the strategy's 50/50 ratio(random entry) greatly improves the Martin.
But whether Martin improves the strategy is the question I'm exploring in my lab assignment.