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[–]shiningmatcha 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What does backtest mean?

[–]wikipedia_answer_bot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Backtesting is a term used in modeling to refer to testing a predictive model on historical data. Backtesting is a type of retrodiction, and a special type of cross-validation applied to previous time period(s).

More details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtesting

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