Guides
How to get what we need
You don’t need to know how to program, or understand statistics. You just have to pull one or two files out of your platform. Here is the step by step — and if you already know your way around, every guide opens with a four-line summary so you don’t have to read the rest.
Not sure where to start? Send us just the backtest report you already have. With that we’ll tell you what we can measure and what you’d still be missing, before you do any extra work.
Three levels, and you decide how far you go
Each level unlocks more analysis. None of them is compulsory: level 1 already gives you a useful report. And at no level do you send us your code.
The last one is not a “level 4”: it is no harder, and it does not depend on the others — it can be supplied alongside any of them. The first three tell us more about what your bot did; that one adds something to check it against.
| Level | What you send | What it costs you | What it unlocks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The backtest report you already have saved | Nothing, it already exists | Risk of ruin, real drawdown, alternative scenarios, cost realism |
| 2 | Plus the optimisation file your platform generated on its own | Finding one file | How many times you really searched, and the Sharpe ratio corrected for it |
| 3 | Plus one line of ours in your bot, and running the optimisation again | About 10 minutes, plus however long it runs | The probability that your winning configuration is luck |
| + | The price history of your instrument, alongside any of the above | Exporting one file | Whether the prices it claims to have entered at really existed |
Pick your platform
Full guide
MetaTrader 5
All three levels, step by step. Includes how to launch the optimisation without spoiling it.
What we need
cTrader
We know exactly which files work, and we have already audited a cTrader bot. The step-by-step with screenshots is still pending.
What we need
TradingView
The exported list of trades is enough for level 1. The step-by-step with screenshots is still pending.
Using a different platform? Write to us: if it exports the trade list as CSV, we can almost certainly work with it.