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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The debate on the backtestability of expected shortfall (ES) is almost as old as the risk measure itself. Despite warnings from prominent quants that the measure was unsuitable because no backtest ...