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Test your strategy before it costs you.

Most backtests are one lucky run. Get the checklist we run on every strategy before trusting a single number. No coding background needed.

Free. Plus a short autopsy by email whenever a strategy dies.

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Backtest Sanity Checklist

Run these before you trust any backtest, yours or someone else's.

  • Was the rule written down before you looked at the results?
  • Are commissions and slippage in every single trade?
  • Could the strategy have known this price at the time?
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Pre-registered studies
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Asset classes: futures, FX, crypto
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Signals sold. Ever.

Strategy autopsies.

Popular strategies from YouTube, ICT and TradingView, tested until they break. The verdicts are free. You just need an email.

NQ + ES · micro futuresFree

Turn of the month

66% winning trades and a profit factor of 3.3 on four years of data. Then we unlocked the test data.

VERDICT
NQ · 15-minuteFree

Multi-timeframe regression slope

A linear-regression slope read across two timeframes. Four years, one contract, costs paid: +$392,896 at a Sharpe of 2.06.

VERDICT
NQ · 5-minuteFree

New York open EMA

The 09:30 candle against a 12-period EMA, with every stop and trailing setup tried.

VERDICT
Gold futuresFree

Implied-volatility walls

Levels drawn from implied volatility, said to act as support and resistance. 36 setups tested.

VERDICT
ES + NQ · London openFree

London 10AM opening range

88% winning trades, a profit factor of 9.75, and it cleared a prop-firm evaluation in 97% of simulations.

VERDICT
Crypto · dailyFree

XRP mean reversion

The best result of a scan across coins and timeframes. It even passed the first check.

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From Idea to Verdict.

New to this? Start here. You are going to be sold a lot of strategies — by YouTube, by Discord, by people with screenshots. Eight written modules that take you from there to judging any of it yourself. No experience assumed, and the Strategy Test Kit is included.

  1. 01What a strategy actually is
  2. 02What you are actually trading, and what it costs
  3. 03Why most of what you see online is selling, not evidence
  4. 04What a backtest can and cannot tell you
  5. 05The twelve checks, run properly
  6. 06Letting AI write the code, and checking its work
  7. 07Risk, ruin and prop-firm rules
  8. 08Autopsies: watching good strategies die
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The Strategy Test Kit

The tooling on its own, for people who already know their way around a strategy. Describe your rule, let the AI prompts turn it into code, and get a verdict you can trust. Included with the course.

  • Test templates that run in your browser. Nothing to install.
  • Real costs, locked test data and a random-chance check, already built in.
  • AI prompts that write your rule into the template and check it for mistakes.
  • A one-page verdict for every test: pass, fail or inconclusive.
  • Prop-firm rule simulator and ruin odds.
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  • 01_load_datafree market data, cleaned
  • 02_your_strategythe one box you fill in
  • 03_costs_and_fillsfutures, micros, FX, crypto
STEP 1

Describe your rule

In plain English. The AI prompts turn it into code for the one box in the template.

STEP 2

Run the template

Costs, locked test data and the random-chance check run automatically.

STEP 3

Read the verdict

One page. If it fails, you saved your money. If it passes, you know why.

Pick your way in.

Start free. Pay once. Nothing here is a subscription.

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  • Backtest Sanity Checklist (PDF)
  • All strategy autopsy verdicts
  • New autopsies by email
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  • Everything in Free
  • 7 test templates, running in your browser
  • AI prompt pack + AI bug gallery
  • Pre-registration template
  • Worked example, start to verdict
  • Free updates to the kit
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Prices in USD. Planned launch pricing, may change before release.

Questions.

No. Each template has one box where your rule goes, and the AI prompts help you fill it. Everything else is already built.

No. The templates run in Google Colab, in your browser, with a free Google account.

Free public sources for stocks, futures, forex and crypto. The kit loads and cleans it for you. You can also plug in your own data.

No. We teach you how to test strategies. What you trade, and whether you trade at all, is your decision.

No one can honestly promise that. What it will do is stop you putting money behind strategies that only look good by luck.

No. Everything here is education and research. Backtest results are hypothetical and don't predict future results.