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Build the foundations
Suggested foundations for trading research and honest backtests and financial time series. Specialist prerequisites vary by resource.
Before you read
- Point-in-Time Data
Use only information available at the simulated decision time.
- Time-Ordered Train, Validation and Test Design
Separate model selection from the final evaluation.
- Stationarity and Unit Roots
Check whether a relationship can be estimated consistently over time.
- Linear Regression
Read the fitted relationship and its residuals.
Go further
- Positions, Trades, Fills and P&L
Reconcile signals, executions, positions and P&L.
- Financing, Borrow and Transaction Costs
Include the costs that can erase a paper strategy.
- Cointegration and Error Correction
Study long-run relationships without confusing them with correlation.
Explore a related reading path
- From trading ideas to honest backtests
Choose a reproducible strategy, specify the trading rule, and test what remains after costs and estimation uncertainty.