01The tool

Every report comes from TradingView's built-in strategy tester, run on the same script that subscribers receive. We do not use a separate backtesting engine, so what you can reproduce on your own chart is what we publish.

02The settings

03Costs

Commission is charged on every fill at the rate shown, and slippage of five ticks is applied against every entry and exit. Both are set in the strategy's properties, so the net-profit figure is after costs. They are typical exchange rates, not the best available; your own fees and fills may be better or worse.

04What the figures mean

Net profit

The closed-trade result on the starting capital, after commission and slippage.

Max drawdown

The largest peak-to-trough fall in account equity during the test. We print it next to the profit because it is the number that decides whether you could have held on.

Win rate

The share of closed trades that ended in profit. On its own it says nothing about size: a high win rate with a small sample, like the Price Action test's 65 trades, deserves more scepticism, not less.

Profit factor

Gross profit divided by gross loss. Above 1 the strategy made money; the further above, the more it made per unit lost.

Buy & hold

Where shown, what simply holding the asset over the same period returned, so you can see whether the strategy earned its complexity.

05What they cannot tell you

06Reproduce it yourself

1. Once your access is live, add the strategy to the chart named above.
2. Set the timeframe and the properties (starting capital, commission, slippage) to the values in the settings.
3. Open the Strategy Tester tab. The report you see is the report we publish.
4. Then change the pair, the timeframe and the inputs to your own, because that is the test that matters for you.

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