Backtest
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Backtest is a noun meaning A test of a strategy, model, etc. using data from a previous time.
Meaning
A test of a strategy, model, etc. using data from a previous time.
More Meanings
- (ambitransitive) To test a strategy, model, etc. using data from a previous time.
Example Sentences
(Mr. Fosback has also backtested this indicator to the late 1940s, the earliest period for which data on the coincident economic indicators were available, and it performed just as well from then until the late ’70s as it did in more recent decades.)
Word Forms
- backtests
- backtesting
- backtested
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include backtrack, retrocalculate, backreact, back-engineer, retro-engineer, back-translate.
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