RIP Backtest tests the trading strategies, indicators and prop-firm claims that everyone shares, using the same fixed rules every time, and publishes the result whether it flatters the idea or not.
Trading is full of strategies that look great on a chart, a screenshot or a course page. Very few come with the thing you'd actually need to trust them: a test with the rules written down in advance, costs included, a fair check against luck, and every failed version reported.
So I built a protocol that does that, and I run ideas through it. When an idea fails, it gets a tombstone, a cause of death and a short epitaph. When one survives, I'll say so, and I'll say how thin the evidence still is.
One person: a retail futures trader who got tired of untested claims, including my own. I'd rather stay anonymous. The results should stand or fall on the files and the arithmetic, not on who is saying them, so every post links to the specification, the code and the trade log. Check them, re-run them, and tell me where I'm wrong.
I use AI tools to help write code and draft pages. Every number on this site comes from scripts you can read and run yourself, and I check the results against known answers before publishing them. For example, the prop-firm odds post checks its simulator against the textbook gambler's-ruin formula, and shows that check on the page.
The grumpy gravedigger is the site's mascot and its voice for verdicts. He's a character, not a person, and he has buried a lot of "can't-fail" systems. The jokes are in the headlines and the epitaphs. The numbers are always serious.
The full rules are on the protocol page.
Every post names the source of the claim being tested. It also states where the code comes from: my own code written from public rules, open-source code used under its licence with credit, or not published when the original is closed or paid. I never publish anyone else's closed, paid or decompiled code. Product and company names belong to their owners and are used only to say what was tested; nobody named here endorses this site.
I will sometimes. Each post has a Corrections section, and a corrected result is published as a correction, never quietly edited. Our first run of the simulator check showed 0.8% instead of 40%, and the post says so, along with the cause.
Everything here is educational. It is not financial, investment or trading advice, and I am not a licensed advisor. Backtests and simulations are not live trading: they leave out liquidity, execution and psychology, and past results do not predict future performance. Trading futures, forex, CFDs and other leveraged products involves substantial risk of loss, and you can lose more than you put in. Never risk money you can't afford to lose.