Foundations
Getting started
What Fincanva is, the objects everything else is built from, and finding your way around the app.
6 guides · 143 questions · 26 termsUPDATED 2026-09-25
01 · Build
02 · Prove
03 · Hold
Foundations
GuidesHow it's done
6 guidesQuestionsQuick answers
143 questionseach one lands on the exact answer
- What kind of tool is Fincanva?
- What can you do with Fincanva?
- How current is the data behind a backtest?
- What do I need to start using Fincanva?
All questions on Getting started →Show less ↑
grouped by the page that answers them
from Home, the page you land on after signing in
- How is Home laid out?
- What do I need before Home is useful?
- What does Home show on a brand-new account?
- Why does Home show me only "Recently edited"?
- What is on Home once I have strategies?
- Why does the top of Home change shape from one day to the next?
- Why is a strategy I never marked Live not flagged on Home?
- What is in "Your live book"?
- Why does the curve not change when I change the return window?
- What is in "Recently edited"?
- What happens when I pick a strategy type from Home?
- Why does Home say it is showing only some of my strategies?
from The Fincanva loop
from The nine biases Fincanva helps you avoid
- How does Fincanva reduce look-ahead bias?
- How does Fincanva handle survivorship bias?
- How does Fincanva reduce selection bias?
- How does Fincanva reduce overfitting?
- Can Fincanva prevent data-snooping bias?
- How does Fincanva reduce cherry-picking bias?
- How does Fincanva reduce confirmation bias?
- How does a Fincanva backtest account for trading costs and taxes?
- How does data quality affect a Fincanva backtest?
from All at once
from Asset type
from Backtest
from Combined
from Combined level
from Duplicate and Copy to Mine
- What does a copy keep, and what does it drop?
- What does Duplicate do?
- What does Copy to Mine do?
- Why does Fincanva sometimes refuse to copy a strategy?
- Why is a screener copy refused when it holds too many filters?
- Where does the "Created from" line come from?
- How does Fincanva handle it?
- What does it look like in practice?
from Filter
from Fin
from Folder
from Holdings
from Instrument logo
from Mark Live
from Mine / Public
from Screener
from Screener attach
from Step by step
from Strategy
from Strategy type
TermsThe words of this section
26 terms- All at once
- Asset type
- Asset-selection modes
- Backtest
- Benchmark
- Combined
- Combined level
- Duplicate and Copy to Mine
- Filter
- Fin
- Folder
- Holdings
- Instrument
- Instrument logo
- Live book
- Mark Live
- Mine / Public
- Portfolio
- Screener
- Screener attach
- Simulation engine
- Step by step
- Strategy
- Strategy in a Combined
- Strategy type
- Universe
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Fincanva is for education and illustration only. It is not personalised financial advice, and past or simulated results do not predict future ones. Read the Terms Addendum
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