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Training and review

What is the difference between trading review and backtesting?

First, the short version

A backtest runs saved indicators and the batch's conditions across a sample pool, then reports local metrics, fills, charts, and equity curves. Review diagnostics examines decisions already made in Free Replay, including margin and position safety and the retained archive. Challenge results and notes remain in their own workspaces. None of these results predicts the future.

Who this is for

Use this distinction when deciding whether you need to test a repeatable rule, inspect your own practice decisions, or do both. Zinuto provides separate local workflows for strategy backtests and behavior-focused review.

What to take away

  • Backtesting is rule-centered; review is behavior-centered.
  • Both can be useful, but they answer different questions.

How Zinuto helps

Build a backtest from a saved indicator

Choose a saved indicator, signal conditions, sample pool, trading environment, capital, and execution mode, then explicitly run a local batch.

Review practice behavior

Use Review diagnostics for Free Replay overview metrics, margin safety, and the archive. Create a note from training context when needed, then organize it separately in Notes.

What to watch

  • Backtest results depend on the selected historical data, signal conditions, trading environment, and simulated execution assumptions.
  • Neither a historical backtest nor a practice review proves or predicts future results.

Next step

  • Run a local backtest when you want to apply a saved indicator and the signal conditions chosen for this batch across a sample pool.
  • Use Review diagnostics for metrics, margin safety, and Free Replay archives; use Notes separately for the reasoning you saved from training context.

Continue with a practical guide

What is trading review in Zinuto?In Zinuto, review means inspecting the record left by Free Replay. Review diagnostics summarizes results and safety measures, while the archive opens the retained chart, simulated trades, and environment details. Notes stays separate so you can organize the context you chose to write down.Read guideWhat are behavior diagnostics in Zinuto?Open the Behavior view in Review diagnostics and choose a practice window. It summarizes margin and position safety, including the dangerous-position rate, lowest safety buffer, and margin breaches. Safety zones and the worst sessions point you back to records worth inspecting.Read guideHow do notes support trading review in Zinuto?A note can preserve the reason you wrote before the outcome was visible. Later, compare that reason with the archived chart and result instead of reconstructing the decision from memory. Notes created from a training record keep readable context, then live in the separate Notes workspace.Read guide

Start with one short replay

Pick a sample, hide the later bars, make a few decisions, and open the archive afterward. That single run shows how Zinuto records practice.

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