Backtesting · MQL5 · TradingView
Professional strategy backtesting for forex and Indian equity & F&O markets, plus MQL5 and Pine Script coding. You get a real report — equity curve, drawdown, win rate, expectancy — not a screenshot of one good month.
# Strategy : Bank Nifty opening-range breakout
# Period : 2019-01-01 → 2025-12-31 (7 yrs)
# Data : 1-min, adjusted, incl. costs + slippage
Total trades 1,284
Win rate 41.3% ← low, but…
Avg win / avg loss 2.14
Expectancy / trade +0.31R
Profit factor 1.48
Max drawdown -18.6% (94 days to recover)
CAGR +22.4%
Sharpe 1.12
Sensitivity: edge holds at ±20% on both
parameters. Not curve-fit. Full walk-forward
and monthly breakdown in the PDF.Why most strategies fail live
Every trader has scrolled back through a chart, seen their setup work five times in a row, and felt certain. That feeling is not evidence — it's the most expensive bias in trading. You remember the setups that worked and skip past the ones that didn't.
A proper backtest removes you from the loop. It applies your rules to every single bar across years of data, charges realistic brokerage, slippage and taxes, and reports what actually happened — including the drawdown that would have made you quit in month four.
And when the answer is "this doesn't work", you get told that. A negative result delivered in 72 hours costs a fraction of the same lesson learned live over six months.
You see the setups that worked because they're the ones you remember. A backtest counts every occurrence, including the ones you'd have skipped.
Tuned parameters until the equity curve looked perfect? That's a strategy fitted to the past. Every test here includes a sensitivity check to expose it.
Brokerage, STT, slippage and spread quietly eat most retail edges. If a backtest omits them, it isn't a backtest.
Services
Backtesting is the entry point. Once a strategy proves itself, the same rules get coded into a live TradingView or MetaTrader system — no rewrite, no drift between what was tested and what trades.
Your rules tested across years of real data, with a report you can actually act on.
Fully automated Expert Advisors for MT4 and MT5 that trade your rules unattended.
Custom TradingView indicators, strategies, screeners and alerts written in Pine Script v6.
For strategies TradingView can't express — portfolio logic, custom data, statistical testing.
MetaTrader and TradingView tools that surface only the setups you actually trade.
Hard-coded guards that stop you breaching a challenge rule.
Markets covered
Most coders do one or the other. Working across both means a strategy idea gets tested wherever it actually has an edge.
Major and minor FX pairs, gold and silver, global indices and liquid crypto — on MetaTrader or TradingView.
NSE and BSE cash, index and stock futures, and options strategies on Nifty, Bank Nifty, Fin Nifty and single stocks.
How it works
You always know where your project stands, and you find out early if it isn't worth continuing.
Send your rules however they exist: a PDF, a TradingView script, screenshots, or a voice note. Within 12 hours you get an honest read on whether it can be tested, what data it needs, and what it will cost.
Your strategy becomes a precise spec — entries, exits, filters, position sizing, every edge case. You approve it in writing. The price is fixed at that point and does not move.
The rules are coded and run across the full history — every bar, not a sample — with brokerage, taxes, spread and slippage applied. No look-ahead, no survivorship bias, no cherry-picked window.
You receive equity curve, drawdown profile, monthly and yearly breakdown, trade list, expectancy, and a parameter-sensitivity study that shows whether the edge is real or curve-fitted.
If the results hold up, the same rules get coded into a live Pine Script strategy or MQL5 Expert Advisor. If they don't, you'll be told plainly, and you'll have saved months of live losses.
Pricing
Indicative starting figures — your exact price is confirmed in writing after the free strategy review and does not change mid-project.
MQL5 Expert Advisors from ₹6,299 / $75 · Standalone Pine Script coding from ₹1,999 / $24 · Milestone payments available on larger projects.
"The backtest killed my strategy. 41% win rate, and a drawdown I'd never have sat through. Painful to read but it saved me a year of tuition fees. We tested the variant next and that one held up — running it live since March."
"I'd used Stockmock for months but my strategy needed a custom volatility filter the builder couldn't do. Got a proper Python backtest with the notebook handed over, so I can re-run it myself now with different parameters."
"Pine Script strategy coded exactly to spec, then the same logic ported to MQL5 for my forex account. Signals matched across both platforms bar for bar. Asked three follow-up questions after delivery, all answered same day."
"The sensitivity study was the part I didn't know I needed. My edge only existed at one exact RSI setting — move it two points either way and it vanished. That's not a strategy, and I'd have found out the expensive way."
"Straightforward to deal with. Fixed quote up front, no scope creep, delivered a day early. What I appreciated most was being told which part of my idea was weak instead of just being agreed with."
"Bank Nifty expiry strategy tested across seven years including 2020. Seeing how it behaved in that period changed my position sizing completely. The monthly breakdown is what I keep going back to."
Quoted in writing before work starts.
Your edge stays yours.
Code, notebooks and data pipeline handed over.
A losing strategy gets reported as one.
1:1 Trading Mentorship
There is no batch, no recorded course and no group call — a small number of one-to-one mentorships, built around your charts, your data and your questions.
Complete beginners are welcome, and so are traders who have been at it for years and want to make what they do systematic and testable. Where we start depends entirely on where you are.
You work on your own strategy: building a testable rule set, learning to backtest it honestly, fixing position sizing, and closing the gap between the plan and what you actually clicked.
Coding, automation and done-for-you backtests are separate development work, quoted at standard rates.
From the blog
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Backtesting, explained plainly
Backtesting is the process of applying a set of trading rules to historical market data to find out how they would have performed. Done casually, it produces a comforting number and a false sense of confidence. Done properly, it is the cheapest risk-management tool available to a retail trader — it tells you the truth about an idea before the market charges you to learn it.
When a strategy needs to run unattended on a VPS, MQL5 Expert Advisors are the tool. A properly built EA sizes each position from your risk percentage and stop distance, refuses to trade in abnormal spreads, sits out high-impact news, and recovers safely from a dropped connection rather than doubling up.
Pine Script is the fastest way to get a strategy tested and running with alerts, and it is where most Indian retail traders already work. Strategies are written with correct calc_on_every_tick and bar-close handling so the backtest reflects reality rather than repainting itself into profit. Once validated, alerts can be wired via webhook to a broker API for live execution.
On the forex side the traps are different: variable spreads that widen into news, swap charges on positions held overnight, and broker-specific execution. MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester runs on real-tick data with modelled spread and commission, and results are checked against a second implementation where the strategy warrants it.
Indian market backtesting has specifics that generic tools handle badly. Brokerage, STT, exchange transaction charges, GST and stamp duty add up to a meaningful drag on any intraday system, and a backtest that ignores them will show an edge that does not exist. Expiry-day behaviour on Nifty and Bank Nifty differs sharply from the rest of the week. Illiquid strikes have spreads that swallow theoretical profits. Every test here models those costs explicitly, on 1-minute to daily data, so the equity curve you see is one you could actually have traded.
| Project type | Turnaround | You receive |
|---|---|---|
| MQL5 Expert Advisor | 3–7 days | Source, Strategy Tester report, setup help |
| Pine Script strategy or indicator | 2–4 days | Source script, settings guide, alerts |
| Single strategy backtest | 2–3 days | PDF report, trade list, sensitivity study |
| Python backtest engine | 1–2 weeks | Notebook, data pipeline, full report |
| Portfolio / multi-strategy study | 2–3 weeks | Allocation study, Monte Carlo, dashboards |
A backtest describes the past. It cannot promise the future, and any service claiming otherwise is selling something else. Market regimes change, liquidity dries up, and a strategy that worked for seven years can stop working in the eighth. What a rigorous backtest does give you is an honest estimate of edge, a realistic drawdown expectation, and evidence that the result is not an artefact of curve fitting. That is the difference between an informed decision and a hopeful one.
FAQ
A single strategy on one instrument starts at ₹2,499 (about $29). A backtest plus live automation in Pine Script or MQL5 starts at ₹7,499 (about $89). Multi-strategy portfolio studies with a custom Python engine start at ₹19,999 (about $239). Every project is quoted as a fixed price after a free review.
Most single-strategy backtests are delivered in 2 to 3 days. Pine Script coding takes 2 to 4 days, MQL5 Expert Advisors 3 to 7 days, and portfolio research 2 to 3 weeks. A written timeline comes with the fixed quote.
Global: forex majors and minors, gold and silver, indices and liquid crypto. Indian markets: NSE and BSE cash, index and stock futures, and options on Nifty, Bank Nifty, Fin Nifty and single stocks. Data from 1-minute up to daily.
Always. A backtest without costs is marketing, not research. Brokerage, STT, exchange charges, GST, stamp duty and a realistic slippage assumption are modelled for Indian instruments; spread, swap and commission for forex. The assumptions used are stated in the report so you can challenge them.
Equity curve, drawdown profile and recovery periods, total and per-year returns, monthly breakdown, win rate, average win versus average loss, profit factor, expectancy per trade, Sharpe, the complete trade list as a spreadsheet, and a parameter-sensitivity study showing whether the edge survives when your inputs are nudged.
You'll be told, with the evidence. That is a successful project, not a failed one — it cost you a few thousand rupees instead of a year of live losses. Where the data suggests a fixable weakness (costs too high for the timeframe, a filter that would help, an exit that's leaving money behind), that gets flagged too.
No, to both. This is a software development and research service — not investment advice, not portfolio management, and not a SEBI-registered advisory. You receive code and analysis; every trading decision remains yours.
Yes. Pine scripts, MQL5 source, Python notebooks, the data pipeline and every report are handed over, and you own them outright. An NDA is signed before you share your strategy if you'd like one.
Yes — Pine Script to MQL5 conversion is a regular request. The logic is rebuilt in MQL5 and validated against your TradingView chart so the signals match bar for bar before the execution layer is added.
Yes. Clients are worldwide. Communication over email, WhatsApp, Telegram or scheduled calls, and payment accepted in both INR and USD.
Get started
No obligation, no sales pressure — a straight answer on whether your idea can be tested, what data it needs and what it will cost.
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A backtest costs a few thousand rupees. Learning the same lesson live costs considerably more — and takes a year.