Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Pete Rathburn is a copy editor and fact-checker with expertise in economics and ...

Backtesting is the process of applying a trading strategy to historical price data to see how it would have performed in the past. It allows traders to test their ideas and plans without using real ...

I explain why backtesting can work well--the relationship of in-sample to out-of-sample performance--and why sometimes it presents major problems. I do so using principles of performance, correlation, ...

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AlgoFusion 5.0 has unveiled an immersive visual backtesting engine, designed to help traders, analysts, and educators explore how algorithmic strategies perform under different market conditions—with ...