Guides on FX Backtest Diary

About this site and the testing framework — why I built it

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This site, “FX Backtest Diary,” is where I test automated FX trading (EA) ideas one by one and record the results. But it isn’t just a “did it make money or not” log. The real goal is to tell, as strictly as possible, whether an idea is a genuine edge or just happened to fit past data.

How the testing works — why can you trust these results?

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Across this site you’ll see phrases like “vanished in forward testing,” “failed the M1 intraday check,” or “Monte Carlo pass rate of X%.” Here’s what each of those means, as plainly as I can put it. They’re all gates designed to keep us from being fooled by a fake edge.

About the test data — where it comes from and how it's cleaned

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Testing lives and dies by its data. Here’s an honest look at what powers the verifications on this site.

What data is used

The main feed is 1-minute (M1) OHLCV data for major FX pairs, gold, and so on. OHLCV means each bar’s open, high, low, close and volume. With 1-minute bars I can rebuild any higher timeframe I want — 5-minute, hourly, daily.

I built a feature to verify trading logic from YouTube videos

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

YouTube is full of “you can win with this method!” videos. They’re tempting, but verifying each one by hand is a lot of work. So I built a tool that extracts the trading rules from a video and feeds them straight into the testing framework.

How it works

Roughly, the flow is:

Feature list — what the framework can do

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s what the home-grown engine btengine and its tools can do. In one line: “prepare data → run strategies → reject fake edges → analyze → publish,” all wired together in-house.

The cards below are the main features. If something catches your eye, check out the related research articles too.