5 docs tagged with "backtest"

AlgoTest offers its users 25 free backtests every week on Monday. If you want to upgrade this limit you can buy a backtesting plan.

Since we have started AlgoTest, we've received countless messages from users asking how its possible that their backtest loss is higher than stop loss value?

Backtesting a strategy helps in quantifying a strategy's historical risk and return expectation. Armed with this data, traders get the confidence to deploy large sums of capital into their strategies. But sometimes, your daily backtested data might differ from your Live trading and forward testing results. Below we have tried to explain some of the reasons as why this might be so:

The 920 Straddle Strategy Defined

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