Tutorials

Are your backtest results fooling you?

ByAmar Jaiswal January 21, 2025January 21, 2025

Backtesting is a crucial part of effective trading strategies. It allows us to test how a strategy would have performed in the past using historical data, which gives us ideas on how much money it could make and what risks are involved. However, backtesting has its problems. Many traders make common mistakes and have biases…

Frameworks

What’s the Deal with Vectorized Backtesting? (And Why Should You Care?)

ByAmar Jaiswal January 17, 2025January 17, 2025

Let’s be real: backtesting is like the ultimate “what if” game for traders. What if I’d bought Apple stock in 2005? What if I’d shorted GameStop before it went viral? But here’s the kicker—what if your backtest is lying to you? Yep, that’s right. Most backtests fail, and it’s not just because of bad data…