How we test
Method
The same honest test for every claim of profit. No window-dressing, with checks against the most common ways to fool yourself and others.
Honest data
We take verifiable market data with no gaps and no “peeking into the future.”
Real costs
We add fees and slippage (the gap between the expected and the real fill price) — as in real trading, not in a perfect vacuum.
Overfitting check
Overfitting is when a strategy is tuned to fit the past, then fails on new data. Dedicated tests show whether the “grail” was just assembled by brute-forcing parameters.
Cherry-picking check
SPA checks whether the best variant truly beats the market — or it is just luck out of many attempts.
Benchmark against the market
We compare against plain “buy and hold.” If a strategy can’t beat it — it’s not needed.
Sealed in Bitcoin
The verdict and its date are fixed in the blockchain before publication. They can’t be rewritten after the fact.
Why so strict
A pretty equity curve is easy to draw: strip out the costs, fit the parameters to the past, show a lucky stretch. Our stand strips away these illusions and leaves only what survives an honest test.
We don’t trade and we don’t sell signals. We sell the audit — independent and sealed.