Hiroshi Tanase, executive director of product analysis and design at S&P Global Market Intelligence, explores why, with the implementation of phase five of uncleared margin rules last September and ...

The COVID-19 stock market decline entices traders to bet on the S&P 500 index to benefit from an upcoming recovery. The S&P 500 index has known multiple pullbacks in price throughout the past 25 years ...

While it may be true, as told by the Roman poet, Horace, and quoted by Ben Graham and David Dodd in their front piece to Security Analysis, that "many shall be restored that are fallen…", it is also ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Pete Rathburn is a copy editor and fact-checker with expertise in economics and ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Traders look for an advantage, but most of it lies in past data. Backtesting examines how a strategy would have performed under real ...

In the fast-paced world of forex trading, success often hinges on preparation and strategy. Backtesting is one of the most effective ways for traders to refine their approaches before putting real ...

While backtesting often gets ignored by beginner traders, it’s a very viable approach that can produce unexpected results when applied correctly. Of course, it’s not a magic wand that can ...

Even though half of hedge fund managers are now using alternative data to gain a competitive edge, 77% of market leaders (with more than USD5 billion in assets) find that backtesting of alternative ...

Backtesting is the process of applying entry and exit signals to time periods of past historical price data to quantify through an equity curve whether the system would have lead to overall profits in ...

This paper provides practical recommendations for the validation of the backtesting process under the targeted review of internal models (TRIM). It advises on the introductory steps for validating the ...