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Reading a Strategy Detail Page

A complete walkthrough of all six tabs on a strategy detail page — from the equity curve to the signal pipeline DAG.

Every strategy on BitPredict — pre-built or custom — exposes its complete internals through a six-tab detail page. This guide walks you through each tab so you can make an informed decision before assigning a strategy to an account.

1

Open a Strategy Detail page

Navigate to Strategies, click any strategy card, or click "View Results" from the Backtesting history. The Overview tab loads by default.
2

Overview tab — key metrics

The Overview shows:
  • Return % — total cumulative return over the strategy's history
  • CAGR — Compound Annual Growth Rate, normalised return per year
  • Sharpe Ratio — risk-adjusted return, above 1.0 is acceptable, above 2.0 is excellent
  • Sortino Ratio — like Sharpe but only penalises downside volatility, a better measure for asymmetric returns
  • Calmar Ratio — CAGR divided by max drawdown
  • Win Rate — % of trades that were profitable
  • Max Drawdown — largest peak-to-trough decline, your worst-case loss scenario
  • Total Trades
3

Performance tab — charts

  • Equity curve — look for a steady upward slope with manageable dips
  • Monthly P&L heatmap — look for consistency across months and years
  • Drawdown chart — depth and duration of drawdowns tells you how psychologically difficult this strategy would be to live trade
  • Benchmark comparison — performance vs. BTC buy-and-hold
4

Pipeline tab — the signal DAG

This is the strategy's "source code". The DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) flows left to right: Data Source → Indicators → Filters → Logic → Entry/Exit. Each node is a processing block. Follow the connections to understand what data the strategy consumes, what signals it generates, and what rules trigger entries and exits. If any block is unfamiliar, click it to see its parameters.
5

Ledger tab — trade history

Every trade is listed: entry price, exit price, direction (long/short), quantity, holding time, and P&L. Look for:
  • Are wins larger than losses on average?
  • Is trade frequency consistent (or are there long gaps)?
  • Are there any suspiciously large single trades that dominate the return? Uneven distribution of returns across trades is a warning sign.
6

Regimes tab — conditional performance

The most important tab for live trading decisions. This shows the strategy's performance broken down by regime: Sharpe, return, win rate, and trade count for Bull, Bear, Range, and Transition periods separately. A strategy that only works in Bull markets is very different from one that performs across all four states. Match the strategy's best regime to the current market regime.
7

Trace tab — signal replay

The Trace tab lets you replay signal generation step by step for any historical bar. Select a date, click through the steps, and see exactly which conditions fired and why. Use this to verify you understand the strategy's logic before trusting it.

The Regimes tab is the single most underused feature by new users. Always check it. A strategy with a 180% total return may have earned 170% of that in a single bull run — if you join at the end of that bull run, your experience will be nothing like the backtest.

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