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- 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?
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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 Filter
from Fin
from Folder
from Instrument logo
from Live book
from Mark Live
from Mine / Public
from Positions
from Screener
from Screener attach
from Step by step
- What are the chapters of Step by step?
- Which chapters does each strategy type require?
- Which chapters does a Combined walk?
- How do you move between chapters?
- Does the Backtest wait for Step by step?
- Where do you land when you reopen a strategy in Step by step?
- What does the explanation pane show?
- Where do alerts show in Step by step?
- How does Fincanva handle it?
- What does it look like in practice?
- What are Step by step and All at once?
- Which view does a strategy open in?
- How do you choose the view the first time?
- How do you switch view for one visit?
- Which view should you use: Step by step or All at once?
- What are the limits and edge cases of the two views?
- Which pages go further on the two views?
from Strategy
from Strategy type
- What are the four strategy types?
- Can you change a strategy's type later?
- How does Fincanva handle it?
- What does it look like in practice?
- How do you choose a strategy type?
- How does the strategy type shape what you build?
- Which Asset selection surface does each strategy type give you?
- What is the Single instrument type for?
- What is the Multiple instruments type for?
- What is the Screener type for?
- What is the Full setup type for?
- Which strategy types can you create on the Free plan?
- Can you change the strategy type later?
- What happens to your selection when you switch strategy type?
- What are the limits and edge cases of strategy types?
- Which pages go further on strategy types?
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
- Instrument
- Instrument logo
- Live book
- Mark Live
- Mine / Public
- Portfolio
- Positions
- Screener
- Screener attach
- Simulation engine
- Step by step
- Strategy
- Strategy in a Combined
- Strategy type
- Universe
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