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Simulating on real history: runs, freshness, costs, taxes, currency.
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- When is a run treated as bankrupt?
- How does Fincanva handle it?
- What does it look like in practice?
- What happens after the whole run goes bankrupt?
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from Bankruptcy rules
from Base currency
from Capital-gains tax
from Cash drag
from Cherry-picking bias
from Compute time
from Confirmation bias
from Cost-ignoring bias
from Costs toggle
from Data-quality bias
from Data-snooping bias
from Dividend tax
from Incomplete Combined
from Invested portion
- How is the deployed amount calculated?
- What are the invested-portion presets?
- What happens to the cash reserve?
- What happens when the invested portion is above 100%?
- How does Fincanva handle it?
- What does it look like in practice?
- How do invested capital and the cash reserve work?
- How does the invested portion work?
- Where do you set the invested portion?
- What happens to the capital you don't invest?
- How can risk conditions lower the invested portion?
- What are the limits and edge cases of the invested portion?
- Which pages go further on invested capital?
from Leverage
from Look-ahead bias
from Overfitting
from Plan compliance
from Rebalance
from Reinvest profits
from Run status
from Selection bias
from Shared compute
from Slippage
from Starting capital
from Strategy alerts
- What do the two levels of alert mean?
- What does the footer on a Settings card show?
- What does "Leave as is" do, and can I undo it?
- What does the section strip show?
- What happens when I click the section strip?
- What happens to a refused Backtest?
- Which alerts can appear, and what fixes each one?
- What do the grey notes on a Settings card mean?
- How do controls appear on the strategy lists?
- What does it look like in practice?
from Survivorship bias
from Tax regime
from Tax residency
from Taxes toggle
from Time zone
from Transaction cost
from Volatility target
from Walk-forward replay
from Weight drift
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43 terms- Bankruptcy rules
- Base currency
- Capital-gains tax
- Cash drag
- Cherry-picking bias
- Compute time
- Confirmation bias
- Cost-ignoring bias
- Costs toggle
- Daily warm of Live strategies
- Data freshness and frontier
- Data-quality bias
- Data-snooping bias
- Dividend tax
- Incomplete Combined
- Interest-rate markups
- Invested portion
- Leverage
- Look-ahead bias
- Overfitting
- Plan compliance
- Positions forced assumptions
- Precomputed toggle variants
- Rebalance
- Reinvest profits
- Run status
- Selection bias
- Shared compute
- Simulation assumptions
- Simulation start year
- Slippage
- Starting capital
- Strategy alerts
- Survivorship bias
- Tax regime
- Tax residency
- Taxes toggle
- Time zone
- Transaction cost
- Volatility target
- Walk-forward replay
- Weight drift
- Withholding tax
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