Backtesting vs System Selection

Quick comparison to help you distinguish these two crypto terms.

Backtesting
advanced
strategy

Backtesting is the process of running a trading strategy's logic against historical price data to produce a statistical performance estimate before committing any real capital to live deployment.

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System Selection
intermediate
strategy

The structured process of evaluating multiple backtested trading systems against defined performance criteria and personal trading characteristics to identify the single system best suited for live deployment.

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