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- Systems & Engineering5 min
How to automate a trading strategy backtest
A backtest is a measurement of a rule under stated assumptions. Automating it means automating the assumptions — data hygiene, costs, look-ahead, and held-out data — so that every run can be reproduced and every result decomposed.
Kernwell Research Desk · 2026-09-17
- Systems & Engineering3 min
A number that looks authoritative
We built a market-regime classifier and then refused to put its confidence score on the dashboard. The decision to display a number is separate from the decision to compute one, and it needs its own evidence.
PJ Landells · 2026-09-07
