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Backtest

Replay history. Test the idea.

Run a strategy against past daily bars to see how it would have behaved. Nothing here touches a broker, real money, or the trade journal.

SimulatedDaily bars · Yahoo

Educational and research use only. Not financial advice.

  • Backtests can be misleading due to overfitting, lookahead bias, survivorship bias, changing market regimes, and unrealistic fills.
  • Yahoo daily bars are adjusted for splits and dividends. Survivorship-biased — delisted tickers won’t return data. Real results will differ from this simulation.
  • Slippage and commissions are off by default — turn them up to test how robust a result is. A “profitable” strategy that becomes unprofitable at 5 bps slippage probably isn’t real.
  • Do not use this strategy with real money until manually reviewed, paper-tested, and risk-limited.
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Pick a symbol on the left to get started. The simulator handles fills, slippage, stops, and metrics for you.

  • Next-bar-open fills with adverse slippage.
  • Stops fire before targets in the same bar.
  • Risk-based position sizing, floor()ed to whole shares.