When backtesting a portfolio strategy, you have to decide how far back to look. Should you use all available data, stretching back decades? Or should you just look at the last few years?

Benzinga provides a complete guild to forex backtesting and explains how this process can enhance your forex trading profits.

I explain why backtesting can work well--the relationship of in-sample to out-of-sample performance--and why sometimes it presents major problems.

Options Strategy Backtest: Using the benchmarks calculated in the Technical Analysis Backtest, the top 2 performing holding periods and top 5 technical indicators are used to generate trading signals.

What Is Backtesting? Backtesting is a method that uses historical data to test an investing or trading strategy to determine whether it would have produced ...