Most trading strategies look great until you count costs, use the right stocks and fill orders at prices you could actually get. We do all three, publish what fails, and let you test your own ideas the same way.
Published research on what fails, an assistant that tests your own ideas, and the data underneath both.
Popular setups run exactly as taught on every NIFTY 50 stock, with costs, three periods and the exact code.
Read the postsDescribe a setup in plain English. An AI writes the backtest, runs it on our data and gives you the honest report.
Try Ask1-minute bars, point-in-time NIFTY 50 membership, F&O participant positions and FII flows, cleaned and versioned.
Browse the catalogueNo code, no spreadsheets. The same rules as our research, applied to your question.
"Buy stocks that gap down 2% and recover by 10:30." Plain English is fine.
Exact rules, every NIFTY 50 stock from 2016, real costs, in a sandbox.
Net after costs, +3 bps stress, three periods, a random benchmark and the code.
A noise-band breakout from "Beat the Market" and the market intraday momentum effect, applied to every NIFTY 50 stock from 2016. The first had a real edge that shrank every period; the second has almost none.
26,965 trades, −₹1.09 Cr. The pattern does worse than a random stock at the same minute.
Every report shows net after costs, a +3 bps stress test and three periods. No exceptions.
23,666 trades, −₹23.7 lakh after costs. 0 of 8 variants profitable.
Breakout −₹2.21 Cr, bounce −₹3.36 Cr. The two are mirror images, and both lose every year.
Every number on this site, and every answer from Ask, follows the same six rules.
Point-in-time NIFTY 50 membership. Stocks join and leave the test on the day they joined or left the index.
Signals at a bar's close fill at the next bar's open. Stops gap. Everything is closed at 15:15.
Brokerage, STT, exchange fees, stamp duty, GST and slippage, plus a +3 bps stress test.
2016–20, 2021–23 and 2024–26 reported separately. Working in one period only is luck.
Picks are compared with random NIFTY 50 stocks traded at the same minute.
We say how many variants we tried. Try enough settings and one looks good by chance.
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