Backtesting vs System Expectancy

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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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System Expectancy
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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