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Backtesting Basics: Understanding your key metrics

Backtesting is an incredibly powerful tool that can be used to understand how our trading algorithms might fare in the real world (might is the key word). However, if you’re a data scientist coming from a non-finance background it can be rather difficult to understand what it all means. Sortinos Read more…

By David, 6 months6 months ago
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Backtesting Basics: Four biases to know by heart

In God we trust. All others must bring data. Backtesting is probably the single best method we have to quickly evaluate new trading strategies. However, if used incorrectly it can be our greatest weakness — guiding us on a false path to ruin. For the uninitiated, backtesting is the process where you Read more…

By David, 6 months6 months ago
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