Etymology

From back +‎ testCategory:English compound terms#BACKTEST.

Noun

backtest (plural backtests)Category:English lemmas#BACKTESTCategory:English nouns#BACKTESTCategory:English countable nouns#BACKTESTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BACKTESTCategory:Pages with entries#BACKTESTCategory:Pages with 2 entries#BACKTEST

1. A test of a strategy, model, etc. using data from a previous time.

Verb

backtest (third-person singular simple present backtests, present participle backtesting, simple past and past participle backtested)Category:English lemmas#BACKTESTCategory:English verbs#BACKTESTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#BACKTESTCategory:Pages with entries#BACKTESTCategory:Pages with 2 entries#BACKTEST

1. (ambitransitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#BACKTESTCategory:English intransitive verbs#BACKTEST) To test a strategy, model, etc. using data from a previous time.
   • 2008 May 18, Mark Hulbert, “An Alarm Is Blaring: Time to Buy”, in New York Times‎:

     (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.)

     Category:English terms with quotations#BACKTEST

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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  Category:German terms with audio pronunciation#BACKTEST

Verb

backtestCategory:German non-lemma forms#BACKTESTCategory:German verb forms#BACKTESTCategory:German entries with incorrect language header#BACKTESTCategory:Pages with entries#BACKTESTCategory:Pages with 2 entries#BACKTEST

1. inflection of backen:
   1. second-person singular preterite
   2. second-person singular subjunctive II