Backtesting vs System Expectancy
Quick comparison to help you distinguish these two crypto terms.
Backtesting
intermediate
strategy
The process of applying a trading system's complete rule set to historical price data to evaluate how those rules would have performed before committing real capital to live market execution.
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intermediate
strategy
A single mathematical measure expressing the average amount a trading system gains or loses per trade across a large sample, calculated by combining win rate with average winner and average loser sizes.
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