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by nzjrs 665 days ago
Id be interested to hear how often you have your team use this to also store historical backtest results as people iterate on strategies.
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I’ve never seen it used for backtests personally. Generally backtested results are saved as a batch of variants following some naming convention as different symbols.
So, yes, separating the use-cases out...

You would use some convention for naming and parametrising backtests, 'different' backtests would get stored separately. But once you start updating backtests, running them in a loop with changing data, that's when the time-travel feature starts to be useful.

Yeah, that’s fair, and something you basically get for free.

Also, hi James! :)

It's a primary use-case.