
What Is Backtesting? What It Proves and What It Doesn't
Backtesting runs a strategy against historical data to see how it would have behaved. But most people never run one, they are shown one: a vendor's equity curve, a channel's performance table, a number on a homepage. The skill that matters is reading the backtest in front of you. Here is what a backtest genuinely proves, the five ways it lies, and the seven questions that tell you whether the one you are looking at means anything.
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