Your strategy, backtested with the methodology of a buy-side research desk.
Submit a strategy. Receive a complete, honest research report — equity curve, robustness grid, regime breakdown, and a candid discussion of what the data does and does not support. Delivered within five business days.
Why this exists
Most retail backtesting tools either constrain you to canned strategies or hide their assumptions.
The result: results that look great on paper and trade poorly in practice. Survivorship bias, unrealistic fills, regime cherry-picking, overfitting to a single market epoch — the trade-offs that quietly corrupt most public backtests are the same ones that erode a real trader's edge.
Options Backtests is a different model. You submit your specific strategy — your underlying, your rules, your filters — and you receive a research report built with explicit assumptions, transparent methodology, and the kind of honest "what we can and cannot conclude" framing that institutional desks expect.
Process
Four steps, five business days
Subscribe
Choose a plan that matches how many backtests you want each month. Billed via Stripe. Cancel anytime through the customer portal.
Submit a brief
You'll receive a structured template on your first request. Most fields have sensible defaults; only four are essential to start work.
Receive the report
A PDF research report is delivered within five business days. Methodology, charts, sensitivity tests, honest caveats — everything an institutional desk would expect.
Ask follow-up
Each report ends with recommended follow-up tests. Use additional credits to deepen analysis, test variations, or extend to other vehicles.
Sample deliverable
Read a complete report before you subscribe
Eight pages on a bull put spread strategy with BB+SMA breakout entry, tested over 15 years. Every report we deliver follows this template — methodology, results, robustness, honest limitations.
Pricing
Three tiers, monthly billing
The first ten subscribers lock in the promotional pricing below for the lifetime of their subscription. Standard pricing applies thereafter.
- 1 report per month
- One strategy, one underlying
- Full methodology stack
- 5-day turnaround
- Unused credit rolls over 30 days
- 3 reports per month
- Test variations of your strategy
- Compare across underlyings
- 5-day turnaround
- Unused credits roll over 30 days
- 6 reports per month
- Systematic research program
- Priority on complex requests
- 5-day turnaround
- Unused credits roll over 30 days
After the first 10 subscribers, standard pricing is $79 (Starter), $199 (Standard), $399 (Pro). Existing subscribers are grandfathered at their original rate indefinitely.
Open research
Monthly showcase reports — free to read
Each month we publish an open-access research report on a question of general interest to options traders — tests of conventional wisdom, comparative studies across underlyings, methodology pieces. Same standard as our subscriber reports.