What is Backtesting & Performance Analysis?

This Academy lesson teaches backtesting & performance analysis for crypto traders — from core definitions to how desks apply it on live perpetual and spot markets.

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Backtesting & Performance Analysis: Academy Preview

Backtesting & Performance Analysis

Backtesting fundamentals, displaying backtest results on chart, monthly performance tables, calculating drawdown duration, and why you should never blindly trust the Strategy Tester.

What this lesson covers

→Covers pinescript with desk-ready framing and examples.
→Covers backtesting with desk-ready framing and examples.
→Covers performance with desk-ready framing and examples.

Keywords & desk context

This lesson sits in the PineScript Strategy Scripts & Backtesting module. Traders use it to connect pinescript, backtesting, performance, monthly table to live execution on CEX perpetuals and on-chain markets.

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