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Backtest Basics: Trading Around Earnings

In our backtester, you can test a strategy that trades around earnings as well as strategies...

Stock Splits Treatment In ORATS Options Data And Backtesting

Companies and ETFs may decide to have a stock split or to declare a large dividend (>10% of the...

Backtest Basics: Trading On A Specific Day Of The Week

You can set up the backtester to trade only on a certain day of the week. Say you only wanted to...

Covered Call Backtest: Finding The Best Maturity, Strike, IV, And Earnings Methods

We ran a large backtest to identify the best maturity, delta, call value as a percent of stock...

Backtest Basics: Seeing The Relative Performance Of The Option Strategy To The Underlying

Backtesting Basics: Trading SPY Options Based On Contango, Skew and VIX Levels

We received a question from a backtester user and here is the answer.

New Backtester Introduction

We have released a new version of our backtester that is more user-friendly and offers...

Long Puts Backtest Using The Optimizer

Which Diagonal Put Spread Strategy Is Right For You?