Backtesting vs System Selection
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
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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