Forward tracking

A backtest can be tuned to look good on the past. A forward track can't — it only starts once a strategy is public.

When a track starts and ends

• A track opens for the current version of a public strategy, starting at the first daily close on or after the later of its publish time and the version's creation.
• Saving a new version, or making the strategy private, ends the current track. A new version that is public gets its own track.
• Ended tracks stay visible on the strategy's public page as earlier versions.

How it's computed

An hourly job re-runs each open track from its start day to the latest close, with the same engine and costs as backtests, and stores one row per trading day: value, amount put in, and the time-weighted index. Summary figures — return, max drawdown, value — come from those rows.

Because every track is recomputed from its start with fixed rules and the stored on-chain closes, nobody can choose a flattering start date or edit the history.

How it's labelled

Forward results are shown as Forward · paper, since [date]. They're simulations, not live trading, and they're never combined with backtested numbers.