Backtested Strategies News

  • BTS Opportunity Zones

    Backtested Strategies announces BTS Opportunity Zones, All Data heatmap overlays for historical relative strength and weakness research versus the S&P 500.

  • BTS Interactive Heatmaps

    Backtested Strategies launches BTS Heatmaps for weekly market seasonality research across indexes, sectors, and industries with eight metric views and overlays.

  • Why Backtested Strategies Matters More Than Ever in the Age of AI

    Backtested Strategies matters more than ever in the age of AI because BTS turns AI-aggregated trading rules into backtests under a common methodology.

  • Why Your Backtest Fails in Live Trading

    Learn why your backtest fails in live trading when data, timing, costs, liquidity, accounting, benchmarks, or overfitting are ignored in the simulation.

  • Why Serious Investors Need More Than Backtest Headlines

    Backtest headlines can be useful, but serious investors need the methodology, structure, evidence layer, and growing research library underneath them.

  • What a Proxy Backtest Can (and Can’t) Tell You

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

  • A Signal Isn’t a Strategy

    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.

  • A Backtest Should Be a Proving Ground, Not a Sales Pitch

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

  • Why a Standardized Methodology Matters in Backtesting

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

  • How to Choose the Right Benchmark

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