Go through the trades lets you look at each trade your rules took in a backtest and say whether you'd have taken it. Then you see how only the trades you'd take did, and what stands out about them. Every choice is yours: nothing here tells you which trades to take or what to change.
Open a result and choose Go through the trades. At the end of a replay, Go through the trades opens your newest backtest of that strategy with trades.
Marking each trade
Each trade is drawn on your chart up to the moment it started, with its entry, stop and target. How it ended stays hidden until you choose Show how it ended. Choose I'd take it or I'd stay out, with a note under Why? (optional) if you like, and the next unmarked trade opens. Clear my mark takes a mark off. Marks save as you go, for that result only.
On a computer, press T for I'd take it, S for I'd stay out, E to show how it ended, and the left and right arrows to move. Keys do nothing while you type a note.
Your chart file stays on your device. Your account keeps only each trade's number, your mark and your note.
Your choices
Your choices starts with one line, such as "In this backtest, the 70 trades you'd take made $3,251.60 after fees. All 83 trades made $3,790.36, so staying out of those 13 would have made $538.76 less." Two bars show all the trades and yours, after fees. The table below adds profit before fees, fees, trades, the share that made money and the largest drop, priced exactly as in the result. Trades you haven't marked are left out, and the line says how many.
What stands out in your choices
Once you've marked at least 8 trades, with at least 3 you'd take and 3 you'd stay out of, Wildflower looks at when each trade started: the time of day in New York, buy or sell, price above or below the 20, 50 or 200 candle average, how close price was to yesterday's high, low or close, and the day of the week. Until then it says what is still needed.
A fact is shown only when it sets your two groups apart, with both counts, such as "Of the 13 trades you stayed out of, 11 were between 7am and 9am New York time. You took 3 of your 70 trades between 7am and 9am New York time." Each is measured the way the Bot's own block measures it, on the candles closed before the trade. These facts describe this backtest only.
Make it a rule
Make it a rule opens the matching block, filled in from your marks. Change any of it. One line under the settings says what the rule will do, such as "Your strategy will skip trades that start from 7am to 9am New York time." Hide this takes a fact off the list. The day of the week can't be made into a rule yet.
Add to my rules saves a new version, keeping the one you tested, or a new strategy. Test it on the same dates runs it on the same dates, chart and fees, then opens Compare with both results side by side. It uses the earlier result's own dates, chart file, fees and trade size, whatever your Backtest settings say now. If that chart file isn't on this device, it says so: choose Add the file here, and the test runs once it's added. Test it on other dates opens the dates step.
If your strategy's setup doesn't use that block, it says so and saves nothing. Some setups don't read yesterday's high, low and close.