Backtest Auditor

Backtest Auditor: a red-team report for your trading backtest

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Free, and runs on your machine. Looks for common errors in a trading backtest, such as lookahead bias, survivorship bias, unrealistic costs, overfitting, sub-period instability and concentration. Your code is read, never executed.

Run it on your strategy code, return series or trade log and get a report on the errors that most often make a backtest look better than it is. Uses tomorrow's price to decide today's trade shift(-1) moves tomorrow's close onto today's row, so the signal knows the answer before the trade. Checker's rule title : Negative shift (future data) in a feature or signal

Pricing & access

Backtest Auditor has a free tier, with paid plans unlocking more. Check nothingbutalpha.app for current plans.

Frequently asked questions

What is Backtest Auditor?

Backtest Auditor is backtest Auditor: a red-team report for your trading backtest. Free, and runs on your machine. Looks for common errors in a trading backtest, such as lookahead bias, survivorship bias, unrealistic costs, overfitting, sub-period instability and concentration. Your code is read, never executed.

Is Backtest Auditor free?

Backtest Auditor has a free tier, with paid plans unlocking more.

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