The Backtest Cup · entries close Mon, Nov 2, 9:00 AM CTThe Backtest Cup · closes Mon Nov 2
Get paid to backtest.
Prize pool $505 and growing — $5 for every strategy run bought while the Cup is on
Four steps. The fifth is the five-year run.
Enter in one sentence
Sign in, name your strategy in a sentence, pick a display name. We read every entry by hand.
Trade the replay blind
NQ in the CE Lab with the date hidden. As many sessions as you want. Minimum 25 counted trades.
Watch the board
Every counted trade moves you up or down the live board: net R, win rate, trades.
The run decides
Every strategy with net R above zero at the deadline gets run over 5+ years of NQ. Final standings come from those runs.
A trade counts when we can see what it was built on.
- Draw every influence. The level, zone, gap, sweep or line the idea comes from goes on the chart before you enter.
- Select it and say what it is. Use the selection tool on each drawing, name it ("4h FVG", "Asia high", "sweep of yesterday's low") and one line on why it matters.
- Enter with a stop and a target. Both set at entry. Moving the stop later is fine; the original is your risk.
- One line on exit. Target, stop, or your reason.
Two lines people skip. Don't.
You must journal every trade and provide ample data to be allowed to win.
A trade without its stop, target, labels and note doesn't count, and an entry without enough data can't place. You tick this on the entry form.
Fair play
The replay is traded without looking up what the market did. Results that don't look like a trader working blind, or entries with thin data, can be removed at our judgement. The full rules are one page.
Entries close Mon, Nov 2, 9:00 AM CT.
Free to enter. US residents 18+. One sentence and three boxes.
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