ORSTAC Research

Strategies & Indicators

How trading strategies and technical indicators behave in Deriv Bot, what a backtest can show and what it cannot.

Backtesting Deriv Synthetic Indices with Realistic Spread and Slippage

A backtest that fills every trade at the quoted tick price will systematically overstate performance, because live execution on Deriv synthetic indices pays a spread and,…

10/11/2026 · 8 min

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