backtest

English

Etymology

From back +‎ test.

Noun

backtest (plural backtests)

1. A test of a strategy, model, etc. using data from a previous time.

Verb

backtest (third-person singular simple present backtests, present participle backtesting, simple past and past participle backtested)

1. (ambitransitive) To test a strategy, model, etc. using data from a previous time.
   • 2008 May 18, Mark Hulbert, “An Alarm Is Blaring: Time to Buy”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

     (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.)

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

backtest

1. inflection of backen:
   1. second-person singular preterite
   2. second-person singular subjunctive II