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South African traders quickly notice that markets often move in repeatable ways after big data releases and policy events.

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? There are ...

Traders can trade efficiently when they quantify risk and return for their strategy. Analyzing the history and predicting the future behaviour of a trading strategy is at the core of backtesting. It ...

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“I have never seen a bad backtest” is an often stated criticism of backtesting that has a high degree of truth to it - many strategies launch with strong backtests yet do not pan out as intended. In ...

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Recent results have shown backtests of expected shortfall (ES) are necessarily approximated, in the sense that they are unavoidably sensitive to possible errors in the prediction of value-at-risk.

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