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Tick-Level Backtesting & Slippage Engine
A cloud-based backtesting platform that forces users to test on tick data with built-in, venue-specific slippage and fee models. It prevents the 'perfect fill' illusion of bar-based backtesting that plagues retail traders.
Why this matters
A cloud-based backtesting platform that forces users to test on tick data with built-in, venue-specific slippage and fee models. It prevents the 'perfect fill' illusion of bar-based backtesting that plagues retail traders.
- · Built for Intermediate to advanced retail algorithmic traders and boutique quant funds..
- · Most likely monetization: SaaS subscription tiered by compute usage and data history access..
Score Breakdown
Market Signal
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Headline
Tick-Level Backtesting & Slippage Engine
Sub-headline
A cloud-based backtesting platform that forces users to test on tick data with built-in, venue-specific slippage and fee models. It prevents the 'perfect fill' illusion of bar-based backtesting that plagues retail traders.
Who It's For
For Intermediate to advanced retail algorithmic traders and boutique quant funds.
Feature List
✓ Tick-data replay engine ✓ Venue-specific slippage and latency simulation ✓ Automated lookahead bias detection in code
Where to Validate
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Community Voices
Real quotes from Reddit comments that inspired this opportunity
- “half my early 'profitable' strategies were just paying slippage to a backtest that assumed perfect fills.”
- “backtesting on bars is fundamentally different from live trading on ticks.”
- “turns out there was a very small error in my code that basically introduced lookahead bias.”
- “your backtest is a story you tell yourself about the past. the live account is reality. they will never match”
- “Your backtest is lying to you.”
- “I only save to a database and do analysis that way with frontend analytical calculations I wired up. But how are others backtesting? I’m sure I am overcomplicating it.”
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