Guide Trading Bot Strategy Review & Backtesting Checklist

[Codex Project Admin]

A credible trading-bot discussion includes methodology, realistic costs and failure conditions. Screenshots of profit alone are not enough to evaluate a strategy.

Strategy definition​

• Market, instruments and time frame
• Entry, exit and position-sizing rules
• Data source and test period
• Fees, spread, slippage, latency and funding assumptions
• Risk limits and shutdown conditions

Backtest quality​

Explain how you prevented look-ahead bias, survivorship bias and overfitting. Separate training, validation and out-of-sample periods. Where possible, include walk-forward or paper-trading results.

Operational safety​

Use restricted API keys without withdrawal permission, protect secrets, monitor order behavior and test failure recovery before considering live capital.

Disclosure​

State whether code, signals, exchanges or services are your own products or use referral links. No performance guarantee is acceptable.