Backtest · Guide

Run Your First Backtest

You don't write code, and you don't draw lines on a chart. You pick four simple things — and the Lab hands back a strategy that already survived the hard part.

  1. Open Menu → Lab → Backtest.
  2. Pick a Symbol — tap one of the chips: BTC, ETH, SOL, or XRP.
  3. Pick a Timeframe: 15m, 30m, or 60m — the size of candle the strategy trades on.
  4. Pick a Direction: LONG (profits when price rises) or SHORT (profits when it falls).
  5. Pick a Leverage: 1×, 3×, or 5× — then press Run Backtest.

That's the whole setup. Four choices, one button. (A fifth row, Draw, sits above the button — leave it on Standard for now; it only changes what a run costs, covered below.)

Here's the part that surprises people: you never build the strategy yourself, and nothing is being computed the moment you press Run. Long before you arrived, the Lab bred a champion for every combination you can pick — an evolutionary search where thousands of candidate strategies were generated, backtested on real historical candles, and pruned generation after generation until only the strongest survived. Around 24,000 candidates went in; one champion came out.

So a run is less like building a car and more like being handed the one that finished the race. Your four picks tell the Lab which race — it deals you the winner as a strategy card.

The draw takes around ten seconds, and the screen is honest about what it's doing: a vault opens, a reel settles on your card's real number, and the four validation stamps it already earned — walk-forward, out-of-sample, robustness, Monte-Carlo — light up in turn before it locks on the champion. It isn't running those tests live; it's showing you the gates this card cleared back when it was bred. The Four Gates explains what each one proves.

When the card lands, it arrives graded — a rarity from Normal to Legendary, earned by score. What Rarity Means explains the bands.

One backtest costs one credit. Your balance sits right under the Run button, and it refills a little every day plus a bigger grant each month. How Credits Work has the numbers for every plan.

In a hurry, or credits piling up? Flip the Draw switch to Rare+ · 10 CR and the draw pulls only from cards graded Rare or better — same vault, same honest scores, just the lower shelves skipped. If a combo has no Rare+ card in stock, nothing is charged.

Not signed in? You still get 3 free runs a day, no account needed — sign in with Google when you want more.

The report counts itself up: the return, the stats, the verdict, the seal. Read it with How to Read the Backtest Report — and if a card earns your trust, hit Save Strategy so it's still on your shelf tomorrow.

Every result is hypothetical performance on past data — not a prediction, and not financial advice. A strategy that survived history can still fail tomorrow. Always do your own research.