What is the idea of running a Backtesting?

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Backtesting is a methodology to test a trading strategy on historical market data.

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A backtesting framework is a piece of software to run algorithms on historical market data.

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Backtesting can be used to check the risk, and diversification of a trading strategy.

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Backtesting is usually done in the Front Office before traders deploy a strategy.

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A backtesting framework is a piece of software to run algorithms on live market data.

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Backtesting is a methodology to test a trading strategy on live market data.

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Backtesting is test a method to test the speed of a trading software.

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Backtesting is usually done in the Back Office, during settlement of trades.

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