Recruitment of participants New Backtesting Course 2024

New Backtesting Course 2024

• Backtesting works because you can confirm or falsify a trading idea
• Backtesting works because it lets you automate
• Backtesting works – you can exploit the law of large numbers. The world's most successful hedge fund (Medallion Fund) trades hundreds of strategies (all automatically)
• Backtesting a trading strategy works because it reduces emotions
  Backtesting works because it saves time

New Edition: Backtesting 2024 is out!

"Gurus" in the media rarely quantify their predictions. Why? Because they are almost never correct. No proof is given on the prediction's reliability and profitability. But the good thing is that you can find out yourself!

You'll learn this in our backtesting course:

• How do you know if you're going to make money if you have not tested your trading idea or pattern?
• How big are your setbacks along the way going to be?
• What is the win ratio of your strategy?
• Is your strategy robust or likely a result of luck or randomness
• A premium trading strategy is included

The course covers the following topics/lessons (written course - no videos):

• What is backtesting?
• Pros and cons of backtesting
• How to optimize a backtest
• In sample vs. out of sample backtesting
• Incubation
• Correlation - how to put strategies together
• Survivorship bias
• Strategy performance metrics
• Bad data - garbage in, garbage out
• How to find trading ideas
• Backtesting journal
• Common mistakes in backtesting
• Curve fitting
• Can curve fitting actually be good?
• Different asset class - same strategy?
• Backtesting software
• Getting backtesting data
• Getting started