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Backtesting a Simple Strategy
Define rules, test them on historical data and learn the ways a backtest can mislead you.
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What you will learn
- Turn a trading idea into testable rules
- Run a simple backtest and read the results
- Recognize overfitting, look-ahead bias and survivorship bias
- Account for costs and slippage in results
Who it is for
Experienced learners who already have written rules and want to test them honestly.
Course outline
- Module 1: Testable rules
- Turning ideas into rules
- Choosing a sample
- Module 2: Running the test
- Metrics that matter
- Costs and slippage
- Module 3: How tests mislead
- Overfitting and curve fitting
- Look-ahead and survivorship bias
- Module 4: Out-of-sample checks
- Walk-forward testing
- Paper trading before real money
Educational content only. Nothing in this course is investment advice, and trading involves a risk of loss.