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# Is this financial advice?

No. Fincanva is a research and simulation tool: it lets you build, backtest, and follow strategies, and it provides no financial or investment advice of any kind. Nothing in the app or these docs is a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any instrument.

## What Fincanva does and does not tell you
Fincanva shows you what a strategy would have done on historical data and how its rules behave; it does not tell you what to invest in or what will happen to your money. Decisions about your money are yours, and you are responsible for them.

## Does a good backtest mean the strategy will make money?
No. A backtest shows what would have happened over a past period, not what will happen next. Past performance does not determine future results, and a strong historical result is not a promise of future gains — Fincanva will not tell you whether a strategy is a good investment, because that is advice and Fincanva gives none.

## Related
For a headline result metric that describes the shape of a backtest, see [CAGR](/docs/analysis/cagr).