A backtest report is only useful if you know what each part of the page is saying. The current report view is designed to answer four questions: did the strategy make money, under what conditions, on which trades, and with which exact saved configuration.

Backtest detail page header with hero stats, warning banners if present, and the Result, Charts, Deals, and Settings tabs visible.

What this is

This article explains how to read the current backtest detail page from top to bottom.

When to use it

Use this article if:

a backtest completed and you need to interpret the result
you want to compare a strong and weak report correctly
you want to understand what the report does not guarantee about live performance

Before you start

Important current product behavior:

a backtest record can be pending, running, completed, or failed
the page can show progress banners, failure banners, and warning banners
the report is organized into four tabs:
Result
Charts
Deals
Settings

Step by step

Step 1: Read the top summary before opening details

At the top of the page, start with the hero stats:

Net
Final Balance
Win Rate
Max Drawdown

If the page shows warnings, read them immediately. In the current product, warnings can indicate things such as:

TradingView signal rules ignored during historical replay
funding-rate data unavailable
open-interest data unavailable
all-coins caveats

Step 2: Use the Result tab to judge quality, not only profit

The Result tab gives the main performance summary. In the current UI, it includes metrics such as:

gross PnL
net PnL
commission
funding
return
Sharpe ratio
profit factor
MFE
MAE

It also includes execution context and deal-summary style blocks that help you answer:

which market and side were tested
which period was covered
how many trades were closed
how exit reasons were distributed

Result tab showing the summary hero, metric tiles, execution context panel, and deal summary section in one long vertical crop.

Step 3: Use the Charts tab to inspect structure, not only totals

The Charts tab helps you see how the report was produced.

In the current page, it includes:

a candle chart with trade markers
strategy filter overlays that can be shown or hidden from the Indicators menu
timeframe controls
a cumulative equity or profit view
a focused panel for the selected trade

Use this tab to check whether the equity curve is steady, clustered, or dominated by a few isolated trades.

Filter overlays in the report are grouped by purpose: entry filters, exit filters, and grid filters. Price-based filters appear on the main price pane, while oscillators and other non-price indicators use compact panes with their own scales. Use the legend for the latest value and the crosshair tooltip to inspect the filter value, condition, pass/fail state, timeframe, and params on a specific candle.

If a filter uses a higher timeframe than the chart candles, the chart carries the latest calculated filter value forward until the next calculation point. A 15-minute filter on a 5-minute chart is therefore visible on every 5-minute candle, but it only updates every third candle. TradingView signal filters are still not historically replayed; read the warning banner when a report includes them.

Charts tab with the candle chart, timeframe buttons, selected-trade panel, and cumulative profit chart visible.

Step 4: Use the Deals tab to inspect individual trades

The Deals tab is where you inspect actual trades instead of only aggregates.

The current page provides:

a deals table
sorting by fields such as net, duration, funding, MFE, and MAE
expandable rows with additional facts
execution details for the selected trade

Use this tab to answer:

which trades made or lost the most
how long trades stayed open
why they exited
how much fees or funding changed the result

Step 5: Use the Settings tab to confirm what was actually tested

The Settings tab is the audit trail for the report.

It includes:

a configuration snapshot
run metadata
structured settings sections for entry, grid, exit, and risk
raw JSON views for the stored record

Always finish here before making a launch decision. A strong report on the wrong symbol, side, or market type is still the wrong report for your intended bot.

What you should see

After reading the report, you should be able to state:

whether the backtest completed successfully
how profitable it was after costs
how severe the drawdown was
what kinds of trades generated the result
which exact configuration produced the report

Common mistakes

looking only at net profit and ignoring drawdown, costs, and trade quality
ignoring warning banners and treating the report as a perfect live simulation
reading Charts without checking Deals
launching from a report before confirming the Settings snapshot
treating one strong trade or one strong period as proof that the whole strategy is stable

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