Point-in-Time
Why Quants Pay More for Point-in-Time Data
Quant investors pay up for verified, point-in-time data, because only PIT can recreate the past faithfully and turn backtests into real trading edge.
4 reasons people don’t trust your backtest
Some analysts spend months building backtests that no-one is willing to trust. Learn why, and what to do about it.
Financial data must be made point-in-time
Financial analysis will often yield incorrect results if the underlying data is not point-in-time.
3 reasons why GitHub timestamps shouldn’t be trusted
GitHub timestamps can be trivially altered and should not be trusted for recording the provenance of code or data. Proceed with caution.