Topic

Backtesting

Backtest construction, walk-forward evaluation, realistic costs, and data integrity checks.

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Risk-first Claims are framed with limitations and validation concerns.

2026-05-13 Beginner 8 min read

Backtests are useful research tools, but they can become dangerously persuasive when costs, slippage, data leakage, and overfitting are ignored.

2026-05-13 Intermediate 8 min read

Walk-forward validation tests a strategy through repeated train-test windows and helps reduce the false confidence of a single backtest split.