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Backtesting as a book category focuses on how to evaluate trading and investment strategies using historical data to estimate their real-world viability. These books teach readers to build realistic simulations that account for data quality, execution details, transaction costs, slippage, position sizing, leverage, and portfolio effects. They emphasize statistical rigor—out-of-sample and walk-forward testing, cross-validation or bootstrap methods, performance attribution, and robust metrics like Sharpe ratio and drawdowns—while highlighting common pitfalls such as overfitting, look-ahead, survivorship, and selection biases. Often including code examples (typically in Python or R) and case studies across asset classes, the genre aims to help practitioners design reproducible research processes and translate backtested ideas into disciplined, risk-aware live strategies.

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