NEW · The Luck Bar — the only backtester we know of that counts your trials →

Your backtest is lying to you.

Ours won’t. Real costs, untouched holdout years, and a straight verdict — in seconds, from a plain-English description.

No signup, no credit card — try it as a guest with free credits, straight from this box. The 2024–mid-2026 exam window is sealed: no backtest, sweep, or panel can read it. The one exception is the priced sealed look — two per account, ever — and that scarcity is exactly what makes its result evidence.

THE ENGINE · THE TRUTH

Fills you could actually get.

Signal at the close of one bar, filled at the open of the next. Buys pay the ask, sells hit the bid, exits are resolved tick-by-tick from real recorded quotes where our tick store covers the market (1-minute bars elsewhere — the result says which), and weekend gaps are real. Repainting isn’t discouraged here — it’s structurally impossible.

ENTER when price touches the lowest low of the past 4 hours
EXIT TP +8 pips · SL −30 pips
COSTS 1.4-pip retail floor — ⚠ spread is 18% of your take-profit
SPLITS out-of-sample tail 2021+ · sealed 2024–mid-2026 untouched

→ warnings arrive before you run, not after.

THE GAUNTLET · THE EVIDENCE
your strategy 20 shuffled-timing versions its mirror image

Beat your own noise, or hear it straight.

Every run races your strategy against 20 versions of itself with shuffled timing — same trades, same costs — and against its exact mirror image. If your curve doesn’t escape the noise cloud, we say so. That’s the verdict LuxAlgo, TradingView and TrendSpider never give you.

THE LEDGER · THE HONESTY

We count your trials. We haven’t found anyone else who does.

Test 14 variants and a Sharpe of 1.4 is just your own luck echoing back. Every run and every swept variant raises your personal Luck Bar, and every verdict is judged against it. That’s not a punishment — it’s how professionals avoid fooling themselves, and it’s why a PASS here means something.

trial #1 · Luck Bar 0.00 → verdict DEAD (Cost Wall)
trial #2 · Luck Bar 0.37 → verdict DEAD (Noise Twin)
trial #14 · Luck Bar 1.42 → “a Sharpe under 1.42 is
  indistinguishable from your own search luck.”
MEGA SWEEPS · SCALE, COUNTED

Search millions of variants. We’ll tell you what that costs you.

A multi-market Mega Sweep runs whole markets in sequence — every entry style, every exit geometry, across the instruments you name — and every variant lands on your ledger. Before you approve it, the card shows the Luck Bar after each rung, because a lead found in rung one must clear the bar rung five creates. Competitors sell sweeps as slot machines; we sell them with the arithmetic attached. Every scored cell is saved — re-rank and re-filter the whole table free, forever. And the finalists carry a consistency score (worst-segment and worst-year performance) alongside their Sharpe — the ordering professional research desks use to keep their books honest — with the selection basis disclosed on every result, so you choose what to pursue with both numbers in view.

MEGA SWEEP — 3 markets · 411,264 variants
rung 1 EURUSD (2010-23) · bar after: 1.28
rung 2 XAUUSD (2016-23) · bar after: 1.79
rung 3 BTCUSDT (2017-23) · bar after: 1.94
— a finalist must beat the bar its own search built.
THE ADVICE · THE NEXT MOVE
✗ DEAD — killed at the Cost Wall

“The gross signal is real (+503 pips before costs) — the spread turns it into −9,328. This is the single most common way real signals die.”

→ Try 4-hour bars (cost falls ~4×) · → Widen TP/SL 3× · → Sweep the neighborhood

Every kill teaches. Every reply moves you forward.

A DEAD verdict tells you what was real, why it died, what the kill did not test, and what to try next — one tap away. Most strategies die. The ones that don’t will have earned it.

THE COMPARISON · THE RECEIPTS

What we refuse to do.

Every claim below cites the competitor’s own documentation, as verified August 2026.

ThemUs
Default costs TradingView backtests default to zero commission and zero slippage. LuxAlgo’s AI Backtesting evaluates strategies “without commissions/slippage” and “do[es] not make use of stop losses”.— docs.luxalgo.com Retail-floor costs bind every verdict. The zero-cost line is drawn only to show you the gap.
Realism TradingView paywalls intrabar accuracy (Bar Magnifier, Premium+).— tradingview.com/support Realism is the default for everyone — there are no tiers to climb. You cannot pay us to turn costs off.
Sweeps TrendSpider’s Group Strategy Tester (formerly Variance Explorer) runs up to 500 combinations (plan-gated) — with no multiple-testing accounting and no out-of-sample split.— help.trendspider.com Every swept variant is ledgered, your Luck Bar rises, and the result leads with what pure noise would have scored.
Holdout data We haven’t found one that ships an untouched holdout. 2024–mid-2026 is sealed by default and stamped on every receipt.
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PROOF OVER PROMISES · INCLUDING THE KILLS

Real verdicts, both kinds.

Other sites show you their winners. A saved loss is a testimonial too.

✗ DEAD — COST WALL

“4-hour-low fade, 8/30 TP/SL, EURUSD. Gross +503 pips — real signal. Net after retail costs: −9,328 pips. Killed before a dollar was risked.”

Hypothetical, simulated performance — not a prediction of future results.

⊘ NOT JUDGED

“11 trades in 10 years. We refused to pretend that’s evidence — in either direction — and said exactly what would make it testable.”

✓ THE BAR

“A PASS here beats its Noise Twin, the 3-sigma null band, every single year, buy-and-hold, a one-bar delay on fast bars, and the Luck Bar at your trial count. Rare — by design.”

PRICING · NO SUBSCRIPTION

There is no monthly fee. There is nothing to cancel.

You buy credits once and spend them when you want. They never expire, we never charge your card on a schedule, and every price is on the screen before a single credit moves.

Starter
$29
300 credits
150 backtests, or 3 Mega Sweeps of 100,000 strategies — roughly two full pursuits of a lead, start to finish.
9.7¢ per credit
Trader
$99
1,300 credits
Up to 13 Mega Sweeps — or fewer, with the sweeps, skeptic audits and books to chase what they turn up.
7.6¢ per credit · 1,200 + 100 bonus = 1,300
Pro
$299
4,600 credits
46 Mega Sweeps. For research that runs every week instead of every so often.
6.5¢ per credit · 4,200 + 400 bonus = 4,600
Desk
$999
17,500 credits
175 Mega Sweeps — 17.5 million strategy variants. The lab, without the lab’s payroll.
5.7¢ per credit · 15,500 + 2,000 bonus = 17,500

Every account starts with 200 free credits and a free Mega Sweep. No card, no KYC — we’re not a broker.

What each run costs

The whole price list. It is frozen for credits you already own — if we ever change it, your existing credits keep the rates you bought them at.

What you runCreditsWhat you get
Backtest2 The full gauntlet: real costs, every gate, charts, trade map, downloadable replication file.
Backtest of your own logic6 Same, for ideas outside the standard grammar — we write the code, show it to you, and test it for look-ahead.
Mega Sweep1 per 1,000 variants 100,000 strategy variants ≈ 100 credits, about two minutes. Your first one is free.
Neighborhood sweep1 per variant Map the exits, sessions, years or bar sizes around a result — typically 7–25 credits.
Skeptic audit30 Six adversarial attacks on a result you believe in.
Portfolio combine3 Turn separate leads into one book, judged on how many independent bets it really contains.
Two-leg spread3 Pairs trading, with both legs’ costs billed honestly.
Cross-sectional panel4 Rank a whole universe and trade the ranking.
Forward monitor25 Freeze a strategy and collect real evidence as new data arrives.
Pursuit session50 + steps, capped all-in One approval covers a fixed list of follow-up tests with a hard spending cap — you’re only charged for steps that run, and you get a map of what was tried and what’s left.
Sealed look150 The one-shot test on 2024–mid-2026. Two per account, ever — the scarcity is the point.
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Our commitments

  • Credits never expire. No renewals, no auto-charges, no subscription to forget about. You top up when you decide to.
  • Failures are free. If our engine breaks, you are refunded automatically. If a test has too few trades to judge honestly, you are refunded automatically. It shows on your ledger either way.
  • You see the price before you spend it. Every run and every sweep shows a card with its exact cost and an Approve button. Nothing runs until you press it.
  • Credits never expire. Buy once, spend on your own schedule — there is no subscription clock running.
  • Realism is not an upsell. There are no tiers — everyone gets the same costs, the same gates, the same verdicts. You cannot pay us to turn costs off.
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