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You build a ten-year backtest on the stocks currently in an index. What bias have you introduced?
- ALook-ahead bias in the timestamps of the price data
- BSurvivorship bias – the failures are missing
- CSelection bias arising from the choice of start date
- DNo bias, provided the prices are adjusted for splits
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