backtest

plural backtests

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

present singular third person backtests · participle present backtesting · participle past backtested · past backtested

1. ambitransitiveTo 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