Most backtests flatter you. Ours tells you the truth.

We test your trading strategy on years of real market data, with every fee, spread and funding payment counted. Then we check whether the edge is real or just luck, and give you a plain answer.

IllustrationWhite: the backtest you were shown

Why strategies that look great still lose money

A pretty equity curve proves very little. Most strategies that look great still lose money, and usually for three reasons.

-0.075Rper trade, after costs (was +0.044R before)

The costs were left out

Fees, spread and funding look tiny per trade, but they eat a thin edge. A previous-day breakout on Bitcoin made +0.044R per trade before costs and lost -0.075R after them.

It was tuned to the past

Settings picked because they looked best on old data will always look good on that same data. The real test is data the strategy has never seen.

It was luck

With the same stop and target, random entries can draw a curve just as pretty. If yours can't beat luck, the entry isn't the edge.

What we do to every strategy

The same checks, every time. Keep scrolling to watch them work on one.

Check 1

Every real cost, counted

Exchange fees, the spread at that hour, slippage, overnight swap and funding. You see how much of your edge they take, in plain numbers.

Check 2

Data it never saw

We split the history in two. A real edge works in both halves, not only in the one it happened to fit. Then the same rules run on related markets.

Check 3

Better than luck?

100 runs with random entries and the same stop and target, fake levels instead of your real ones, and every setting nudged by 20%. A real edge beats all of them.

The answer

A plain verdict

Works, watch or doesn't work, with the reasons. Plus every trade on a chart, what to try next, and whether it would pass a prop-firm challenge.

WorksWatchDoesn't work

Real results from the lab

Popular kinds of strategies, tested on five years of data. Most fail, and the report says exactly why. We say how many we tried, so a winner isn't just a lucky pick.

Ethereum, 4 hours, 77 trades on unseen data

Buy in a 4h uptrend when RSI turns back up from a pullback

Works

1 of 107 combinations we tried on 2021-2024 - and it still made money on 2025 data the search never saw.

Per trade 2025+0.13R
Win rate43%
Tried107
Bitcoin, 1 hour, 1,290 trades

Buy above yesterday's high, sell below yesterday's low

Doesn't work

A small real edge, but costs take 0.119R a trade, more than it makes.

Per trade-0.08R
Before costs+0.04R
Beats luck88%
Your strategy

Will yours be the one that works?

Most strategies fail these checks. The few that pass are ones you can trade knowing the edge is real, not luck. Your first test is free.

Test yours free

Every report also shows each trade on a chart, where the result comes from, a bad-luck drawdown check and what to try next.

6kinds of markets
5years of history per test
100random-entry runs to beat
20%nudge to every setting
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Questions traders ask

R is the amount you risk on one trade. A result of +0.5R means the trade made half of what it risked. Measuring in R lets you compare strategies whatever your account size.

No. Describe the strategy in plain words, pick one from the library, or click the rules together. You see the rules in plain language and confirm them before the test runs.

Crypto, forex, gold, silver, stock indices and oil, on the chart timeframes traders actually use.

Usually about a minute. A market you are the first to test can take longer while its history downloads.

Not guaranteed. A pass means it held up on years of past data, after every cost, on data it never saw, and better than luck. Markets change, so start small when you trade it live.

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