A key difference between a traditional investment management process and a quantitative investment process is the possibility of backtesting a quantitative investment strategy to see how it would have performed in the past
量化投资流程和传统投资管理流程最重要的区别是:量化投资策略可以进行回测以观察它在过去的表现。
常用的回测工具
Excel > The major disadvantage of Excel is that it can be used to backtest only fairly simple models.But, as I explained in the previous chapter, simple models are often the best!
While finding sources of data on the Internet is even easier than finding prospective strategies, there are a number of issues and pitfalls with many of these databases that I will discuss later in this section. These issues apply mostly to stock and exchange-traded fund (ETF) data only. Here are the most important ones.