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Backtesting
What is Continuous Futures Data and Back-Adjustment
Posted on June 6, 2023| Posted in General Articles
We offer 2 variants of "continuous futures data": back-adjusted and not. Discover how we do the future rollover and how we build the historical series.
Reading a Backtest Report
Posted on May 31, 2018| Posted in Blog, General Articles
Testing a trading system or Expert Advisor (EA) could be time consuming, but thanks to the Strategy Tester tool on MetaTrader, you can test a trading system using historical price data from several years ago without having to test it real time. It is called “backtesting”
How to backtest an Expert Advisor in Metatrader
Posted on January 7, 2018| Posted in Blog, Trading Framework
Many traders are asking us how to start with backtesting. That’s why we decided to write a quick guide to help you all get started, explaining how to backtest an Expert Advisor in Metatrader 4 through a quick how-to on using the Strategy Tester
What is Walk Forward Analysis and which are the Good Practices while Backtesting
Posted on December 17, 2017| Posted in Blog, General Articles
While backtesting there are some good practices to respect, first of all the consistency of your dataset and the the quality of the model. We suggest to run walk forward analysis while backtesting in order to avoid overfitting
Manage overfitting
What is overfitting and how to manage it while backtesting. Overfitting afflicts many traders and can lets strategies fail. Learn how to see overfitting
Profit & Loss
How to manage take profit and stop loss in Metatrader in order to test a new strategy. Take profit is less important than stop loss
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