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backtests

backtests is the third-person singular simple present indicative of backtest.

backtests is the plural of backtest.

Meaning of backtest

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.
    • (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.)2008 May 18, Mark Hulbert, “An Alarm Is Blaring: Time to Buy”, in New York Times

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Questions about backtests

What is backtests the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Backtests is the third-person singular simple present indicative of backtest.

Words near backtests in the dictionary

  1. backtaxis
  2. backtaxying
  3. backtest
  4. backtested
  5. backtesting
  6. backtests
  7. backthrust
  8. backthrusted
  9. backthrusting
  10. backthrustings
  11. backthrusts

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