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TradingSFX

Jul 8, 2026 Finance & Accounting
backtesting chart-replay trading-analytics trading-journal

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I run a trading journal (TradingSFX) and just shipped a chart-replay backtester into it. The hardest part was not the charting, it was making the results honest, because almost every manual backtester quietly inflates your win rate and traders never notice until real money disagrees. Three decisions that fight the user's own optimism: Same-candle stop and target counts as a loss. When one candle's range covers both the stop loss and the take profit, candle data cannot tell you which came...

Comments (4)

Reggie Bernhard Reggie Bernhard 1 month ago

making backtesters honest? bold move, howd you actually do it

Herman Harris Herman Harris 1 month ago

honest backtest results are way more useful than fancy charts

Pearl Herzog Pearl Herzog 1 month ago

every manual backtester claims honesty until you actually verify the results

Jayce Stroman Jayce Stroman 1 month ago

what mechanism stops lookahead bias in the replay results?