Backtest Analysis Guides
Practical, no-fluff guides on getting more out of your TradingView Strategy Tester results.
How to Export TradingView Strategy Tester Results to Excel
Step-by-step guide to exporting your TradingView backtest as an .xlsx file — what the export contains, common pitfalls, and how to analyze it once you have it.
6 min read
TradingView Backtest Metrics Explained: Beyond Net Profit
What profit factor, Sharpe ratio, Sortino ratio, max drawdown, and capture ratio actually tell you about a strategy — and which numbers the Strategy Tester report leaves out.
9 min read
How to Find Your Strategy’s Most Profitable Trading Hours
A practical method for time-of-day backtest analysis: bucket trades by entry hour, then test whether each hour’s edge persists across rolling windows instead of trusting a single heatmap.
8 min read
Deep Backtest Analysis Without TradingView Premium
TradingView locks Deep Backtesting behind its Premium plan. Here’s how to get deeper analysis of any Strategy Tester export — hour-by-hour breakdowns, Sharpe/Sortino, and stability scoring — on any plan.
7 min read
Is My Backtest Overfit? A Practical Stability Test
Great backtest, terrible live results — the classic overfitting story. Learn a practical way to detect it: slice your history into rolling windows and check whether the edge persists, instead of trusting one aggregate number.
9 min read
Sharpe vs Sortino Ratio for Trading Strategies: Which to Trust?
Sharpe punishes upside volatility; Sortino only punishes downside. What each ratio actually measures on a backtest, how annualization works, why TradingView's report doesn't show them, and when the two disagree.
8 min read
The Open-Position Trap in TradingView Backtest Exports
TradingView writes open positions into the List of Trades as exit rows dated at export time. If you don't detect and separate them, your win rate, profit factor, and drawdown are all quietly wrong. Here's how to spot and handle them.
6 min read
Capture Ratio and Giveback: How Much of Your Open Profit Do You Keep?
Two trades can close at the same P&L while telling opposite stories. Capture ratio (realized P&L vs run-up) and giveback analysis reveal how much open profit your exits surrender — a dimension the Strategy Tester report ignores.
7 min read
How to Compare Multiple TradingView Strategies Side by Side
Comparing strategy variants by flipping between Strategy Tester tabs is error-prone. This guide shows a repeatable workflow for honest side-by-side comparison on a unified time axis.
7 min read