Hi I was wondering how long we should back-test our program, my computer crashes if I go from 1925-2010, R freezes because the file is too large (3GB). Would back-testing from 1980-2010 be acceptable? Otherwise is there a more powerful computer that I can use at Rice?

Hi I was wondering how long we should back-test our program, my computer crashes if I go from 1925-2010, R freezes because the file is too large (3GB). Would back-testing from 1980-2010 be acceptable? Otherwise is there a more powerful computer that I can use at Rice?

Backtesting from 1980 is an appropriate lookback period for this assignment.

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