Strategy Autopsies

Public audits of trading strategies, after the backtest stops lying.

Each case study takes a strategy that looked good in simulation and reconciles it with what actually happened in paper, in live, or both. Real trade records. Cost-realistic. Claim ladder explicit. No marketing version of the result.

The first one is our own. The rest will not be.

#001Published2026-05-24

EC_V1 — Paper +64%, Live 0-of-5. Insider Cluster Buying, Audited.

Three-window ablation with t-stat 2.24 out-of-sample. A live run that lost on every closed trade. A trade-by-trade reconciliation of where the strategy actually broke.

Insider cluster buyingUS equitiesPaper-to-live gap

More case studies coming. If you have a strategy whose paper result and live result tell different stories, we want to look at it. Apply for an audit pilot.