backtest

Etymology

From back + test.

backtest means A test of a strategy, model, etc. using data from a previous time. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

A test of a strategy, model, etc. using data from a previous time.

verb

To test a strategy, model, etc. using data from a previous time.“(Mr. Fosback has also backtested this indicator to the late 1940s, the earliest period for which data on the coincident economic indicators were available, and it performed just as well from then until the late ’70s as it did in more recent decades.)”