Backtests that beat buy and hold.

Read this first

Optimization is a multiplier, not a magic pill.

The results above are real, but they did not come from a button that prints money. TradingTune helps a good strategy reach its potential. It cannot invent an edge that was never there. Two things have to be true, in this order, before any optimization is worth running.

1. 1

   A strategy with a real edge

   Optimization tunes the dials of a strategy. It cannot create signal from noise. If the underlying idea has no edge, no combination of settings will save it: you will only find the parameters that fit the past best and then fall apart live. Garbage in, garbage out. Start with a strategy you understand and believe in.

2. 2

   The right parameters

   Even a genuinely good strategy, run on the wrong inputs, leaves most of its edge on the table, and at worst looks broken when it is not. The default settings are almost never optimal for your market and timeframe. This is the half TradingTune automates: it sweeps the parameter space and surfaces the settings that actually perform.

Bring the edge, we will find the settings. Skip the first half and you are polishing a strategy that was never going to work. Skip the second and you are trading a good idea with the brakes on. The backtests above are what it looks like when both are true at once.