I highly recommend backtesting any portfolio strategy. I do my backtesting using Portfolio123, but there may be other options. I've backtested a lot of strategies over the years, and have run a ...

Backtesting is a key component of effective trading system development. It is accomplished by reconstructing, with historical data, trades that would have occurred in the past using rules defined ...

Discover how backtesting works in trading, its benefits, limitations, and why it's essential for evaluating strategy effectiveness using historical data.

If you use a ranking system, like I do, you might want to optimize the weights of your various factors. There are some things that backtesting may not tell you.

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.