Backtest Runner
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Definition
Runs a strategy over historical data to see how it would have behaved, reporting returns, drawdown, and risk-adjusted stats.
How to read it
The Backtest Runner lets you replay a strategy against past market data to study its historical behavior before ever risking paper capital. You pick a strategy, a symbol or universe, and a date range, and it simulates the trades and reports performance and risk statistics (returns, drawdown, win rate, risk-adjusted measures). It is a research and learning tool: a way to build intuition for how a rule set behaves across different conditions, not a promise about the future.
How practitioners use it
Used as context among multiple indicators — never as a standalone signal to act.
Less common professional uses
Power move: split the range into in-sample and out-of-sample windows and only trust results that hold up on the unseen period. Caveat: beware look-ahead bias and over-fitting — a strategy tuned until the backtest looks perfect usually fails live. Use the ensemble experiment to test whether a second strategy genuinely improves a backtested one before combining them.
Sources & provenance
Portal backtest engine
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