How to Backtest a Pine Script Strategy on Your Own Data
Step by step: prepare Excel candles, convert a TradingView Pine Script strategy and read the results, including entries, exits, fills and costs.
Backtesting guides
Short, practical reads on testing trading strategies properly.
Backtest Metrics Explained: Profit Factor, Drawdown and Win Rate
What profit factor, maximum drawdown, win rate, average win and average loss actually tell you about a trading strategy, and how to read them together.
Backtesting Mistakes That Make Strategies Look Better Than They Are
Repainting, look-ahead bias, unrealistic fills, ignored costs and overfitting: the common errors that inflate backtest results and how to avoid them.