The 22-year backtester

22 years of receipts behind every symbol.

The backtester holds the full historical record of these setups on every stock we cover, 2004 to today, trade by trade. It is the evidence behind the approach, laid out so you can check it yourself.

5,852
Slingshot trades in the sample
69.1%
Win rate in our backtests
2004–26
Every era, nothing cropped
The backtester: a 22-year trade log and equity curve for a single symbol
What it shows you

The whole record, not the highlight reel.

Pick a symbol and a timeframe and the backtester lays out everything the setups did there across 22 years. The good stretches, the rough ones, and the boring ones in between.

Trade log

Every trade, listed

Entry, exit, result, and hold time for each historical trade. About 13 days average hold across the sample, so you know the rhythm.

Equity curve

The ride, drawn out

The cumulative curve including every drawdown and flat stretch. You see what holding the approach actually felt like.

Era stability

Broken out by era

In our backtests the win rate held between 67% and 71% in every era since 2004, through crashes and bull runs alike.

Runner stats

The pullback truth

46% of signals in our sample never pulled back 1 ATR, and those won 92.3%. The per-symbol view shows you that split too.

The receipts, not the verdict.

One thing the backtester will never do is grade a setup. Our research was clear on this: a symbol's own history did not predict its next trade. The grades come from setup factors measured across the entire 5,852-trade sample.

So the per-symbol record is labeled exactly what it is, context. It shows you the approach has been tested honestly on the name you are looking at, and it lets you check our work. That is its whole job.

Per-symbol backtest shown as context beneath the setup-led verdict
The reports view: wins and losses in the same trade-by-trade record

Honest accounting, by design.

Backtests are easy to flatter. Ours are built to be checked instead.

  • No cropped windows. The record runs 2004 to today, including the years that hurt.
  • Losses on the page. Every losing trade sits in the same log as the winners.
  • Sample-only claims. Every number describes our backtests, never a promise about the future.

Conviction comes from checked work.

It is easier to follow a playbook through a losing streak when you have seen 22 years of its wins and losses laid out. That is what the backtester is for.

Verify before you trust

Open the record on any symbol and check the approach yourself before you put weight on a single grade.

Know the rhythm

Average holds, typical drawdowns, and era-by-era results tell you what normal looks like before you live through it.

Keep perspective

When a trade loses, the long record shows you whether anything is actually broken or it is just variance.

Open the receipts on any symbol.

22 years, 5,852 trades, nothing cropped. Check our work, then use it.