James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician ...

Hiroshi Tanase, executive director of product analysis and design at S&P Global Market Intelligence, explores why, with the implementation of phase five of uncleared margin rules last September and ...

The COVID-19 stock market decline entices traders to bet on the S&P 500 index to benefit from an upcoming recovery. The S&P 500 index has known multiple pullbacks in price throughout the past 25 years ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Pete Rathburn is a copy editor and fact-checker with expertise in economics and ...

While it may be true, as told by the Roman poet, Horace, and quoted by Ben Graham and David Dodd in their front piece to Security Analysis, that "many shall be restored that are fallen…", it is also ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Traders look for an advantage, but most of it lies in past data. Backtesting examines how a strategy would have performed under real ...

An investor can use backtesting to determine whether a specific trading strategy on a security or asset would have created potential returns based on past performance and historical data. Backtesting ...

While backtesting often gets ignored by beginner traders, it’s a very viable approach that can produce unexpected results when applied correctly. Of course, it’s not a magic wand that can ...

Backtesting is the process of applying a trading strategy to historical price data to see how it would have performed in the past. It allows traders to test their ideas and plans without using real ...