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Strategy Research and Backtest Masterclass

Turn backtests and sweeps into decision-grade evidence before promoting a strategy profile to paper or live mode.

Educational content only. Crypto trading is risky and this course is not financial advice.

Course Lessons

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Research Questions Before Test Runs
15 min Preview

Start with a hypothesis so backtests answer a specific operator question.

Fair Windows and Market Regimes
17 min

Avoid convenient history by testing across trend, chop, and volatility changes.

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Controlled Sweep Design
19 min

Sweep TP, SL, trailing, and cooldown ranges without creating random historical winners.

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Scoring Profiles Beyond Win Rate
18 min

Use expectancy, drawdown, trade count, and reliability to choose better candidates.

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Paper Mode Gate and Acceptance Rules
16 min

Promote a backtest candidate to paper mode only when acceptance rules are clear.

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Decision Memos and Rollback Evidence
16 min

Create concise records that explain why a profile was promoted, rejected, or rolled back.

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About This Course

Course Overview

This masterclass teaches a research workflow for strategy operators who need evidence before changing live settings. You will learn how to choose fair windows, run controlled parameter sweeps, reject overfit profiles, and promote only robust candidates.

What you will be able to do

  • Design baseline tests that include realistic market regimes.
  • Run parameter sweeps without losing the original hypothesis.
  • Score strategy variants by return, drawdown, trade count, and stability.
  • Write promote, revise, reject, or rollback decisions from evidence.

Included operator assets

  • Backtest decision memo template.
  • Parameter sweep scorecard.
  • Paper-mode acceptance gate.
  • Overfitting red-flag checklist.

Capstone assignment

Run a baseline and two variant tests for one strategy profile, then write a decision memo that recommends reject, revise, paper-test, or live-review.

This course is educational content for safer platform operation. It does not promise profit and should not be treated as financial advice.