How your rules did shows your own run only, with the market, the dates and how big each trade was underneath, such as "Risk: 1% of account". Trade size is worked out exactly as the Bot does it, and never above your maximum dollar risk per trade.
The four figures
- Profit after fees, with profit before fees beside it. If you left fees out, it says Fees not entered and shows profit before fees only.
- Trades: how many trades your rules took.
- The share of your trades that made money, after fees when fees are in.
- Largest drop: the biggest fall from a high point, with its dates.
More numbers
Wins and losses, fees, average trade, average win and average loss, largest loss, longest losing run, and profit factor, which is total won divided by total lost. Each shows before and after fees.
A candle can touch both your stop and your target, and a file of candles can't say which came first. The Bot counts that trade as a loss, and so does Backtest. The number of such trades is shown here. A finer file is more exact.
By month, the chart and the trade list
By kind of market shows how your rules did in each of your own kinds of market. See Kinds of market.
By month shows profit month by month. Chart draws your trades on your chart, each with its entry, stop and target. Trades lists every trade, with All, Wins and Losses, in New York time, and how many contracts each one took. Open one to see it on its own. Save as a spreadsheet saves your trades, never the candles, to your device.
Fees and slippage
Fees are in dollars per contract for the round trip: your broker's published fee, labelled with its source, or your own. Slippage is the Bot's own model, plus any extra ticks you added. On forex and crypto, your own fees are turned into dollars for each trade; see Forex and crypto in Backtest.
Extra ticks are saved with the strategy. When you put it on an account, they go with it, and that account's own backtests use them too, so both show the same trades. They apply to entries made at the market, never to a limit fill, and they never change a real order: real fills are whatever your broker gives. The assign screen tells you when a strategy brings extra ticks with it.
Why it can differ from another tester
Other platforms' strategy testers fill orders differently. Backtest fills them the Bot's way: a target fills only if price trades through it, and a candle touching both stop and target counts as the stop. Your file's candles can also differ from your broker's.
Go through the trades
Go through the trades lets you mark each trade as one you'd take or stay out of, then see how only those trades did, after fees, next to all of them. See Go through your backtest's trades.
Turn this into a Bot
Turn this into a Bot opens your strategy in Strategies with Assign ready for the exact version this result tested, so the Bot trades the same rules. You choose the account. Nothing changes until you confirm. Forex and crypto results say Not yet something the Bot can trade live instead.
Saved results
On a prop firm account? See it on a prop account runs a result's trades through your firm's rules; see See a backtest on a prop account.
Your results are listed in My backtests, and your last 50 for each strategy are kept on your account. Pin a result to keep it for good. See My backtests and comparing runs. If you change your rules, an older result says which version it came from, with Test Version 2 (or whichever is newest). If Wildflower changes how tests run, older results are marked "earlier method".