Backtest
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A test of a strategy, model, etc. using data from a previous time.
Verb
- 1 To test a strategy, model, etc. using data from a previous time. ambitransitive
"(Mr. Fosback has also backtested this indicator to the late 1940s, the earliest period for which data on the coincident economic indicators were available, and it performed just as well from then until the late ’70s as it did in more recent decades.)"
Example
More examples"(Mr. Fosback has also backtested this indicator to the late 1940s, the earliest period for which data on the coincident economic indicators were available, and it performed just as well from then until the late ’70s as it did in more recent decades.)"
Etymology
From back + test.
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