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Tutorial Step - A Bit About Backtesting!

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Before we get to run this first backtest, I need to acknowledge something of great importance!
Backtesting is a science in and of itself! There are entire books written on backtesting alone. It is a deep and complex subject mainly because humans designing and testing strategies are prone to introducing biases that may lead to overfitting, that is, adjusting the rules of the trading system to fit the data set in the quest to get good backtesting results. Superalgos offers tools to flexibly handle the data set to avoid spoiling it, like the time range parameter that allows splitting the data set as required, or setting up and running multiple sessions in parallel. That said, we are not going to cover the topic in this tutorial! The current focus is on creating the definitions of a trading idea, not backtesting per se.
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Testing a Trading Idea - The Trigger Stage — TOC

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1. Testing a Trading Idea - The Trigger Stage Tutorial

2. Tutorial - Testing a Trading Idea

3. Tutorial Step - The Pipeline

4. Tutorial Step - Do You Have The Data?

5. Tutorial Step - Let's Mine Some Data...

6. Tutorial Step - Let's Start With the Basics!

7. Tutorial Step - Trading Systems

8. Tutorial Step - Right Out of the Box!

9. Tutorial Step - Why Downtrends?

10. Tutorial Step - Trigger Stage Events

11. Tutorial Step - Trigger On Event

12. Tutorial Step - Situations, Conditions, and Formulas in Superalgos

13. Tutorial Step - Remember the Context?

14. Tutorial Step - Let's Study the Syntax!

15. Tutorial Step - Reinforce The Learning!

16. Tutorial Step - We Need Data

17. Tutorial Step - Time to Work the Charts!

18. Tutorial Step - Determining the Trend

19. Tutorial Step - Is That Good Enough?

20. Tutorial Step - An Extra Dimension!

21. Tutorial Step - Bollinger Subchannels

22. Tutorial Step - Products & Properties

23. Tutorial Step - Let's Check Those Slopes

24. Tutorial Step - We Have Our Conditions!

25. Tutorial Step - Set Up the First Condition!

26. Tutorial Step - Now the Second Condition!

27. Tutorial Step - Never Forget Granularity!

28. Tutorial Step - Trigger Off Event

29. Tutorial Step - The Workings of Situations

30. Tutorial Step - Separate Situations!

31. Tutorial Step - Keep the Definitions Tidy!

32. Tutorial Step - First Backtest...

33. Tutorial Step - A Bit About Backtesting!

34. Tutorial Step - Let's Do This...

35. Tutorial Step - Let's See What We've Got!

36. Tutorial Step - Trading Systems Trigger Stage Test

37. Tutorial Step - Can't See What's Expected?

38. Tutorial Step - Visual Verification

39. Tutorial Step - Look at the 26th!

40. Tutorial Step - Keep Looking!

41. Tutorial Step - Troubleshooting 101

42. Tutorial Step - Let's Hunt For Errors!

43. Tutorial Step - Errors & Time

44. Tutorial Step - Error Details

45. Tutorial Step - Errors & Nodes

46. Tutorial Step - Trading Systems Tracking Errors

47. Tutorial Step - Deciphering Errors

48. Tutorial Step - Let's Unpack This Error

49. Tutorial Step - Counting Candles!

50. Tutorial Step - Lesson Learned?

51. Tutorial Step - Highlights and Values

52. Tutorial Step - A Note on Event-Evaluation

53. Tutorial Step - The Land of Confusion

54. Tutorial Step - The Time Frame Mystery

55. Tutorial Step - What Am I Missing?

56. Tutorial Step - Free as a Bird

57. Tutorial Step - Take Position Event...

58. Tutorial Step - Candle Properties

59. Tutorial Step - A Close Below the Bands?

60. Tutorial Step - One More Detail!

61. Tutorial Step - Let's Break It Down!

62. Tutorial Step - Let's Define It!

63. Tutorial Step - The Second Close

64. Tutorial Step - The Previous Close

65. Tutorial Step - The Previous Property

66. Tutorial Step - Second Backtest!

67. Tutorial Step - Let's Do It!

68. Tutorial Step - Let's Get On The Same Page

69. Tutorial Step - Trading Systems Second Backtest

70. Tutorial Step - What Do We Have Here?

71. Tutorial Step - Take Position Event

72. Tutorial Step - Find The Error Challenge

73. Tutorial Step - Target Rate Error

74. Tutorial Step - Radical Workaround

75. Tutorial Step - Let's Test Again!

76. Tutorial Step - Are Errors Gone?

77. Tutorial Step - Trading Systems Third Backtest

78. Tutorial Step - Let's Take a Closer Look!

79. Tutorial Step - Trigger On Conditions!

80. Tutorial Step - Take Position Conditions!

81. Tutorial Step - A Little Speculation Game

82. Tutorial Step - Trading Systems Candles Panel

83. Tutorial Step - Not So Great Right?

84. Tutorial Step - Let's Wrap It Up!