Backtesting Models
Meaning ⎊ The process of testing a trading strategy against historical data to evaluate its potential effectiveness.
Overfitting and Data Snooping
Meaning ⎊ The danger of creating models that perform well on historical data by capturing noise instead of true market patterns.
Principal Component Analysis
Meaning ⎊ A technique to reduce data dimensionality by transforming correlated variables into a few key, uncorrelated components.
Out-of-Sample Testing
Meaning ⎊ The practice of testing a model on data not used during development to verify its ability to perform in unseen conditions.
Walk-Forward Validation
Meaning ⎊ A robust testing method using iterative, time-sequenced data windows to validate strategy performance on unseen data.
Co-Location Services
Meaning ⎊ Placing trading infrastructure within exchange data centers to minimize latency and gain a competitive execution edge.
