Proxy backtests can answer useful questions when original markets, data, or rules cannot be replicated directly—if substitutes and limits are disclosed.

A signal can point to a pattern, but a strategy needs rules, timing, sizing, costs, accounting, benchmarks, and failure-mode review before it deserves trust.

Learn why BTS treats backtests as proving grounds, testing signals against costs, execution, portfolio accounting, benchmarks, failure modes, and uncertainty.

See why standardized backtesting methodology matters—and how clear assumptions make strategy results easier to inspect, compare, challenge, and trust.

Learn how choosing the right benchmark changes the question a backtest answers, from opportunity set and control portfolio to active overlay and trade-off.