{"id":730,"date":"2026-04-29T09:49:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=730"},"modified":"2026-04-29T09:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T09:51:11","slug":"what-is-backtesting-in-strategy-ai","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/knowledge-base\/what-is-backtesting-in-strategy-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"What is backtesting in Strategy AI?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Backtesting allows you to test a generated EA on historical market data to evaluate its performance before using it in live trading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just like in MetaTrader 5, once a strategy is created, you can backtest it until you&#8217;re happy with the results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Important to note that this step does not require you to use any software on your end &#8211; all backtests run on our servers independently and with very high resources so your backtests are completed in a short period of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backtesting allows you to test a generated EA on historical market data to evaluate its performance before using it in live trading. Just like in MetaTrader 5, once a strategy is created, you can backtest it until you&#8217;re happy with the results. Important to note that this step does not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[85],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-730","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-strategy-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/730\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myfxbook.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}