How to read a preset chart?

Every preset has an interactive chart of its testing on its page. It shows how the preset behaved across many runs started at different times. You can get the hang of it in a couple of minutes, even with no trading experience – below we go through what is what.

Global view

By default the chart shows the big picture. Each bar is one test run of the bot, and its height is the profit reached: the higher, the better. Color shows the outcome: dark-green – runs that doubled the deposit (100% and more), red – liquidations. The line over the bars is the asset price over the same period, so you can see what market the preset worked in.

The chart has a slider arrow you can move along the timeline (with the keyboard arrows). As you move it, you walk through the period and see the status of all bots at that moment.

Global view of an Aggressive preset: each bar is a run (green – successful, red – liquidations; Aggressive presets naturally have more red), the pink line is the price, the slider at the bottom moves with the arrows.

Simple rule

The larger the total area of the bars and the fewer the reds – the stronger the preset. And tall red bars are relatively good too: a red bar height shows how much the run earned before liquidation, which means it would have finished successfully with a smaller target profit.

Detailed view

Click a specific run (bar) and its detailed view opens. Here you can see how that very run unfolded: how the profit changed over time, how the bot averaged in on drawdowns, and how it ended. Handy for understanding the preset behavior in a specific situation, not just the final number.

Good to know

The chart on the page shows a simplified view – a small part of the runs. The testing is actually several times denser: there are many times more offset-started runs than fit on the picture.

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