Common questions about StratProof.
Answers to what people ask most. If your question isn't here, email [email protected].
Basics
Will this tell me if my bot will actually make money?
Yes, that's the whole point. You describe your strategy or bot in plain English, we run it through 3 years of real Binance data with honest fees and slippage, and we tell you whether it would have made money in realistic conditions. Most won't. That's what a real backtest looks like.
What does a DEBUNKED result actually mean?
It means the strategy lost money after real exchange fees and slippage across 3 years of data and 10 coins. It does not mean your idea is stupid. It means the exit structure or costs are eating the edge. Often a small change (tighter take-profit, different stop, a fee-baked exit instead of ATR) flips a DEBUNKED to a MIXED or CONFIRMED. The verdict card tells you which.
What is StratProof?
Paste a strategy in plain English, we run it through 3 years of real Binance data with actual fees and walk-forward validation, give you a verdict in under 2 minutes. Free, no signup, rate-limited to 10 tests per hour.
How is this different from TradingView, 3Commas, Cryptohopper, or Freqtrade?
Different layer, different rigor. TradingView is a charting platform with a backtester that has no built-in walk-forward and assumes optimistic fills. 3Commas, Cryptohopper, and Bitsgap are bot-execution platforms with strategy marketplaces. Their incentive is to surface winners so users subscribe to them, which produces selection bias. Freqtrade is a free open-source Python bot that you self-host. None of those publish the gap between their backtest predictions and live results. StratProof is the validator, not the executor. We test against your strategy with six independent gates (walk-forward, Deflated Sharpe, per-fill L2 cost, cross-coin transfer, frozen holdout, regime-stratified consistency), and we publish a nightly calibration log at /calibration showing where our backtest predictions disagreed with our forward-test reality. If your bot lives on 3Commas or Freqtrade, run the strategy here first to find out whether the edge survives our gates before you fund it.
Will you connect to my exchange account?
No, and that's deliberate. StratProof never sees your API keys, never places trades for you, never holds your funds. We validate strategy ideas. You decide what to do with that information on whatever platform you already use. In 2022 one of the largest trading-bot platforms leaked 150,000 user API keys in a breach. Keys we never have can't be leaked.
Why would I trust your numbers?
Because we publish our own losses. The /proof page shows every live paper trade including the bad days, and our research lab at /research lists every candidate strategy we've tested, the 99% that failed and the 1% that passed. No cherry-picking. If we lose money, you see it on the homepage.
Is this financial advice?
No. StratProof is for educational and research purposes only. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Cryptocurrency trading carries significant risk of loss. You are solely responsible for your own decisions.
Do you publish strategies that lose?
Yes. Every strategy our research engine tests is on the /research page, including the ones that fail. Losing results have no IP value and they're the most useful thing we can show you. Winning configurations we forward-test ourselves first, then publish the full post-mortem once real-capital results are in.
Do you run bots that trade real money?
No. We run paper-trading (simulated) forward tests on strategies to verify they continue working in live conditions. We do not manage funds, execute trades on behalf of users, or provide signals. We publish the aggregate P&L of our paper portfolio daily.
Will you ever add real money management?
No plans to. That crosses into investment adviser territory with significant regulatory requirements. Our product is research and diagnostics, not execution.
How do you make money?
$10 one-time Pro purchases today (unlimited tests + survivor library access, lifetime), and Pro Plus monthly subscriptions when that tier launches in 3-4 weeks (target $19/month, with saves and decay alerts). Potentially exchange affiliate revenue later (disclosed on the “How we make money” footer page). Free tier stays free. We do not sell your data, we do not sell signals, we do not partner with signal services, and we are not paid by any course creator or exchange to promote specific strategies.
Is this a big company?
No. Small operation, no VCs, no outside investors. The goal is to stay lean and spend attention on the research and product rather than on growth-at-all-costs overhead.
What if I find a bug or have a feature request?
Email [email protected]. Pro users get a direct line to the founder via the email linked in their welcome message. We respond within 48 hours on weekdays.
Methodology
Why is the live paper trade aggregate negative?
Most crypto strategies lose money after real fees. We run all of them in parallel without cherry-picking. Some are profitable, most aren't, the aggregate reflects that honestly. A “93% win rate” product page would be a scam.
What makes a StratProof test different from a typical backtest?
Real per-coin L2 spreads, slippage calibrated from live trades, and walk-forward validation on a held-out 40% of the data. Most retail tools default to zero commission and same-candle fills. A strategy that looks great under those defaults often loses under ours. That's by design.
How accurate is the backtest?
We model fees, slippage, spread, stop overshoot, and (for perps) funding. We continuously calibrate those assumptions against our own live paper trades. The gap between any simulation and reality is never zero. Exchange outages, liquidity gaps, and unusual moves are things no backtest captures. We publish the observed gap and adjust the model when it drifts.
What data do you use to test strategies?
Binance minute-bar OHLCV from 2023 to present, covering the top-liquidity coin set. Real per-coin L2 order book spreads from continuous multi-exchange sampling. Real funding rate history. We do not use synthetic data.
What coins can I test on?
48 coins are supported in the builder. 42 have real L2 spread data. The free Prove It tool tests against 10 high-liquidity coins (BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, BNB, ADA, LINK, AVAX, LTC). Pro access broadens coverage to all 42.
What timeframes?
5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, 1 day. Free Prove It runs on 5m, 15m, 1h, 4h simultaneously. Pro adds 30m and 1D.
Can I get the raw data you use?
Not currently. We may offer dataset licensing in the future (L2 spreads, historical OHLCV, paper trade logs), but it's not on the immediate roadmap.
Pricing & Refunds
What does Pro include?
Pro is $10 one-time, lifetime access. You get unlimited tests (no 10/hour rate limit), and access to the survivor library: out of 9,615 strategies tested in our research lab, 21 passed all four gates (walk-forward validation, Deflated Sharpe Ratio, per-fill cost modeling, regime-conditional edge). When your tested strategy gets DEBUNKED, you can see which similar strategies actually survived. Plus a direct line to me by email.
Will there be a richer paid tier later?
Yes, planned: a Pro Plus tier with saved strategies, weekly auto-retesting, email decay alerts when an edge starts fading, regime breakdowns, full grid testing across 10 coins × 4 timeframes × 3 exit models, and a weekly research digest. Target price $19/month. Realistic timeline 3-4 weeks. Today's $10 buyers are grandfathered into the current Pro scope (unlimited tests + survivor library) forever, regardless of what later tiers cost.
Can I get a refund?
Yes. 14-day money-back, no questions, just email me at the address on your receipt and I'll process it within 48 hours. After 14 days you keep lifetime access. Monthly subscriptions (when Pro Plus launches) can be cancelled anytime and stop billing immediately; current period is not pro-rata refunded.
What if StratProof shuts down?
Pro purchases are refunded in full within 30 days of any shutdown announcement, regardless of how long ago you bought. Active monthly subscriptions are refunded pro-rata for unused time. We'll give 30 days notice before shutting down.
Privacy & Data
Do you store my strategies?
Yes, to your account so you can see your history. We do not publish, sell, or share individual strategies with any third party. We do use anonymized, aggregated patterns from submitted strategies to improve our backtesting accuracy. Anonymized data has all personally identifying information removed and cannot be traced to you.
Is my submitted strategy private?
Yes. Strategies you submit are tested in isolation against historical data. They're not compared to our own research, not cross-pollinated into anything we run, and not used to inform our strategies. Your strategy is yours.
Still have questions? Email [email protected] or try the free tool.
For educational and research purposes only. Not financial, investment, or trading advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.