Statistical Back-testing on Excel
Level 2
Introduction to systems trading/algorithm trading and basic statistics needed to verified performance summary of a system.
Choosing of historical data for back-test and forward test.
Things in systems trading – trade setups and entry signal, always in the market or not, stop-loss, profit exits.
Things to look for in a trading system’s statistical performance summary – net profit, compound annual growth rate, positive expectancy, profit factor, max drawdown, max consecutive losses, max intraday drawdown, minimum capital to trade the system, % of profitable trades, standard deviation of returns.
Locating optimal stop-loss points to cut down whipsaws and minimizing winners turning into losers.
Strategy creation, setups, entries and optimization.
Forward test.
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