Is your TradingView strategy's backtest telling the truth?
A great-looking backtest is easy to publish and easy to believe. We put a strategy through seven stress tests and a source-code integrity scan — and tell you, in plain language, whether the edge is real.
Why bother
Most published strategies fail live for one of three reasons
The market did it
It rode a trend, not an edge
A long-only strategy on an asset that climbed for years looks brilliant — until the trend stops. Strip the rise and there's nothing left.
The code cheats
The backtest saw the future
A single look-ahead data request lets a backtest act on prices that hadn't happened yet. The results are spectacular and completely unrepeatable in real time.
No real edge
Honest, and still not profitable
Clean code, real trades — and a profit factor barely above breakeven that any realistic spread or commission wipes out.
The audit
Seven stress tests and a source-code integrity scan
We take the strategy's own list of trades — and, for open-source scripts, its Pine source — and run both through the same battery, then translate the results into language a trader can act on.
Out-of-sample walk-forward
Luck-vs-edge Monte Carlo
Realistic trading costs
Profit concentration
Drawdown pain profile
Calendar-timing consistency
Funded-account (prop-firm) survival
Repainting & look-ahead source scan
The source scan is the part no statistic can replace: look-ahead and repainting hide in the code, not in the trade list, so every trade-based test can pass while the whole backtest is fiction. We read the code, and we verify it's the code that actually produced your trades.
The deliverable
A shareable report, in plain language
An overall robustness verdict — a 0–100 score and a Fragile / Mixed / Robust rating.
The exact configuration tested — instrument, timeframe, inputs, and whether it's as-published or adapted.
Every test with a "what this means" — no jargon, just what the result implies for trading it.
A source-integrity assessment — repainting / look-ahead findings and a source-to-trades check.
Red flags and green flags — the concerns and the genuine merits, side by side.
A bottom-line takeaway and a glossary — so anyone can read it.
See it in action
Three real audits — one per failure mode
Flawless Victory Strategy
Fragile 24
Crypto · BTC/USDT · by Trabor_Namor
A 70% win rate and a seven-figure profit — that turned out to be Bitcoin's rise plus zero fees. It captured under a fifth of simply holding BTC, for the same 88% drawdown.
A profit factor of 13.7 and a 0.75% drawdown — manufactured by a single look-ahead data request in the code. The battery scored it "robust"; reading the source is what caught the lie.
Verifiably honest, clean code — and still no edge: a breakeven profit factor over nine years and a drawdown large enough to blow the account. Clean and real aren't the same as profitable.
The tests are fixed calculations, run on your real trades. Walk-forward, Monte Carlo, trade concentration, cost sensitivity, drawdown, and prop-firm simulation are set formulas applied to your actual trade data. The numbers are not opinions or estimates — they come straight from your trades.
We use AI to explain the results in plain language. The tests produce the numbers; AI turns them into a clear, plain-language write-up, so you get the meaning, not just a table of figures.
A person reviews and approves every report before it is sent. Nothing is delivered automatically.
Independent, educational analysis of a historical backtest. Not financial advice.
Commission a report
Have a strategy you're unsure about?
Send it over and we'll audit it — free while we're in our concierge phase.
What we need: the TradingView link and the strategy's List of trades export (CSV). The Pine source is optional — most tests run on the CSV alone; the source only adds the code-integrity scan.
Complimentary during our concierge phase · typical turnaround ~3 business days
Your files stay private and encrypted, are used only to produce your report, and are auto-deleted within 30 days. We never publish, sell, redistribute, or reuse your strategy.