Your backtest is lying to you.

Rigor is the validation platform for crypto traders. It runs your strategy through walk-forward testing with real trading costs — and tells you the truth about whether your edge survives data it has never seen. Before the market tells you the expensive way.

rigor — validation reportstrategy: momentum_v3

TRAIN edge +9.3 bps

VALIDATE edge −1.6 bps

COST bar 6.0 bps round trip

BELOW BAR — DO NOT TRADE

Real output. This strategy looked profitable in a naive backtest. On unseen data, the edge didn't exist.

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Why this exists

I killed my own bot before it traded a dollar.

I built a trading bot and was building a business around it. Before going live, I ran the strategy through my own validation pipeline: trained on the first half of the data, tested once on the untouched second half, with a transaction-cost bar of 6 bps.

A signal showing +9.3 bps of edge in training collapsed to −1.6 bps on unseen data. The backtest was beautiful. The edge was curve-fit noise.

I shut the bot down before it traded a dollar — and killed three more "profitable" strategies the same week. Every one of them would have passed TradingView's strategy tester, because TradingView never makes your strategy prove itself on data it hasn't seen.

That pipeline is now Rigor.

How it works

Three things most backtesters won't do to your strategy.

Walk-forward, enforced.

Your strategy trains on one slice of history and gets exactly one shot at data it never saw. No re-running until it passes. That's the whole point.

Costs are not optional.

Fees, slippage, and spread are baked into every verdict. A strategy that only profits at zero cost gets called what it is.

A verdict, not a curve.

You don't get an equity chart to fall in love with. You get PASS or BELOW BAR, with the train-vs-validate comparison that shows whether you found an edge or fit the past.

Built for

Traders with rules-based strategies — Pine Script, bot platforms, or your own code — who've watched a beautiful backtest lose real money and want it to never happen again.

Not for

If you want a tool that confirms your strategy works, this isn't it. Most strategies fail validation. That's not a bug.

Early access

Find out if your edge is real.

$29/month when it launches. No tiers, no "contact us."