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Quantitative Finance · Glossary

What is Paper trading?

Definition 21.1 Research Craft: Predictors, Backtests, Measurement, Portfolios · Chapter 21 — Live Experiments

Paper trading runs a new strategy in real time on live market data: it computes its signals and generates its orders, which are recorded and checked but never sent, and fills them with a fill model.

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