James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician ...

Backtesting is the process of applying a trading strategy to historical price data to see how it would have performed in the past. It allows traders to test their ideas and plans without using 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 ...

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Backtesting can help an investor determine whether a specific trading strategy would have led to potential returns on an investment over a certain past time period.

Leveraged S&P 500 funds outperform during bull markets and recoveries, underperform during bear markets. Investing in leveraged S&P 500 funds, but only after a downturn, could result in market-beating ...

Swapping CEFs with premiums with similar CEFs with discounts is a common trading strategy. I backtest the performance of said strategy for some First Trust MLP/Midstream CEFs; results were very ...

Beginning early next year, Fidelity Investments will enable investors to backtest their trading strategies online at no cost through a service called Wealth-Lab Pro. Processing Content It will educate ...