# WickAtlas backtest protocol

Version: 1.0
Educational research template — not evidence of future profitability.

## Research question

- Strategy name and version:
- Exact hypothesis:
- What result would reject the idea?

## Scope

- Pair universe:
- Timeframe:
- Date range:
- Eligible market regime:
- Development sample:
- Untouched confirmation sample:

## Frozen rules

- Context:
- Entry:
- Order timing:
- Invalidation and stop:
- Exit:
- Signal expiry:
- No-trade conditions:

## Execution assumptions

- Spread source and method:
- Commission:
- Slippage:
- Financing/swap:
- Closed-bar or intrabar information:
- Missing/rejected-order treatment:

## Required output

- Eligible observations:
- Win rate:
- Average win and loss in R:
- Net expectancy:
- Profit factor:
- Maximum drawdown:
- Longest losing streak:
- Results by pair, year and regime:

## Robustness and confirmation

- Reasonable parameter variations:
- Pessimistic cost test:
- Start-date sensitivity:
- Unseen-data result:
- Demo forward-test plan:
- Limitations and unresolved conflicts: