Algorithmic Execution: Does Backtesting really help? 
by Nicholas Hallam. Published in AIMA Journal (Summer 2008)

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TraderServe published a major technological study of the obstacles to pan-European best execution in equities which was influential and much of which remains highly relevant today.

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