When we specify something like a 95% value at risk or 95% VaR, we mean that 95% is the confidence level and, therefore, 5% is the significance level. That means we expect on 5% of days for the actual loss to be worse than the VaR or to exceed the VaR. This video is about the backtest of a VaR...
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