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Backtest
A historical simulation used to examine how a strategy would have behaved under specified assumptions.
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See it in a workflow
A strategy is evaluated on a frozen historical price dataset.
The failure mode
Look-ahead bias, overfitting and omitted costs can make results misleading.
Illustrative scenario, not a measured execution test.
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