"Backtesting took a whole day," or "I have to manually re-enter parameters every time I change currency pairs"—have you ever had experiences like these? As an engineer, I use data to verify standard ...

“I’m interested in automated FX trading, but I don’t really know how to do backtesting,” or “Isn’t it impossible if you can’t program?”—I imagine quite a few of you feel this way. To give you the ...

Every investor has a moment when a brilliant idea pops into their head and they’re suddenly convinced they’ve cracked the market’s secret code. But ideas are cheap, and markets are not, so the real ...

Any trader can build a strategy. The real challenge is proving that it works, not just once, but across different market environments, volatility conditions, and timeframes. That’s where backtesting ...

A C++ event-driven backtesting and execution-research engine built around one question: how much of a backtest's profit is real, and how much is an artifact of ignoring market microstructure? Most ...

When backtesting a portfolio strategy, you have to decide how far back to look. Should you use all available data, stretching back decades? Or should you just look at the last few years? There are ...

Robbie has been an avid gamer for well over 20 years. During that time, he's watched countless franchises rise and fall. He's a big RPG fan but dabbles in a little bit of everything. Writing about ...

Backtesting is now available within tastytrade. Its’ free for account holders, and you can see it here. We think you’ll agree that testing different strategies and seeing how they would have worked is ...

An experimental ‘no-GIL’ build mode in Python 3.13 disables the Global Interpreter Lock to enable true parallel execution in Python. Here’s where to start. The single biggest new feature in Python ...

Backtesting tools enable you to research historical performance of options strategies. Test entry and exit conditions for different options strategies. See how the strategies performed in the most ...