Your Curiosity, Applied Intelligence
There are 20,000 known trading strategies.
We put them to the sword, one by one.

We tested 0 trading strategies.
0 didn't survive.

Every strategy is rebuilt exactly as taught and tested against 800 million bars with brutal honesty. The failures are published, so everyone learns what's real.

See the body count
20,000 catalogued 199 tested honestly 188 didn't survive survivors stay private
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strategy variants tested & rated
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1-minute bars, audited nightly
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cumulative simulated loss, all failed strategies

High win-rate, still loses money

Every dot is one failed run from our public dataset — runs across strategies and 7 instruments. Many won more weeks than they lost. All of them bled out anyway. Hover a dot.

Historical simulation in R (multiples of risk per trade), costs included · education, not advice · simulations / paper

Watch the worst six bleed

Cumulative weekly R for the six deepest losers in the dataset. Green weeks, red weeks — and the line still goes to the floor.

290 ISO weeks, 2020-W53 → 2026 · education, not advice · simulations / paper

Explore all runs week by week in the interactive graveyard →

The wall of the dead

Reality checks — 15 famous strategies, killed by honest testing

Iron condors, ORB, candlestick classics, VWAP, day-of-week folklore — rebuilt exactly as taught, every one negative out-of-sample.

Browse the case studies →