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Backtesting — almost wordless

On Tuesday I gave a talk at the Thalesians entitled “Effective backtesting”.  You can get the annotated slides but below is an almost wordless introduction to backtesting. Introduction Figure 1. When you backtest, you attempt to see how an investment strategy would have worked during some historical period of time. We can think of backtesting … Continue reading

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