AppliedMultiple choice
You backtest a signal on today’s members of an index, using ten years of their history. What bias have you built in?
- ALook-ahead bias in the signal values, because prices were adjusted for splits
- BSurvivorship bias
- CSelection bias only if the signal uses fundamentals
- DNone, as long as the backtest uses daily rather than monthly data
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