SentimenTrader Backtest Engine

The World’s First Sentiment/Trend-Driven Backtest Platform — Powerful Enough for Professionals, Accessible Enough for Everyone

Test any trading strategy across stocks, ETFs, futures, and crypto with 17,000+ proprietary sentiment and trend indicators plus classic technical indicators. For global or niche markets, upload your own data to backtest any custom symbol. Build entry and exit rules in minutes with an intuitive no-code interface — or let our Concierge Setup Service do it for you. Every backtest delivers statistically rigorous results with performance metrics like CAGR, Sharpe, and drawdowns, so you can trade with confidence.
Backtest with 17,000+ Proprietary Sentiment Indicators‍
Tap into the industry’s largest library of sentiment data, including Optix scores, Trend Scores, and Relative Trend Scores for every ticker paired with essential technical indicators like MACD and RSI.
No-Code Strategy Design for Complex Rules‍
Build advanced entry and exit criteria using point-and-click tools. Layer multiple sentiment and technical conditions with AND/OR logic, no coding required.
Concierge Setup Service for Effortless Backtesting
Send us your idea in plain English and our team will build the strategy in your account, save it to your Favorites, and you can start running it right away.
Expert Backtests: Sample & Analyst Models
Get started quickly with Sample Backtests, or go deeper with Analyst Backtests — real trading strategies built and published by SentimenTrader’s own research team, available directly in the platform.
Flexible Across Markets and Timeframes
Run tests on the Russell 3000, ETFs, futures, and crypto, or upload your own data for global markets. Analyze performance over daily, weekly, or monthly timeframes with custom benchmarks.
Transparent, Statistically-Rigorous Results
Every backtest includes a complete equity curve, trade-by-trade log, and key metrics like CAGR, Sharpe, win rate, and drawdowns. Export results to CSV for deeper analysis.
Build & Test Your First Strategy

Got a trading idea but not sure how to backtest it?

With our Backtest Concierge Setup Service, simply email us your idea, and we’ll set it up for you—for members only. Spend your time fine-tuning your ideas, not dealing with technical hassles.
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Proprietary
Technical Indicators

% of Opening Gap*
Day of Week*
Month of Year*
# of Consecutive Days Since an N-Day High*
# of Consecutive Days Since an N-Day Low*
# of Consecutive Days Down*
# of Consecutive Days Below a Moving Average*
# of Consecutive Days Up*
# of Consecutive Days Above a Moving Average*
# of Consecutive Days With a Rising Moving Average*
# of Consecutive Days With a Declining Moving Average*
Percentage Below N-Day High*
Percentage Above N-Day Low*
Deviation From Trend Between Two Moving Averages*

Other Popular
Technical Indicators

Accumulation/Distribution
Accumulative Swing Index
ADX/DMS
Alligator
ATR  Trailing Stops
Awesome Oscillator
Balance of Power
Bollinger %b
Bollinger Bands
Bollinger Bandwidth
Center of Gravity
Chaikin Money Flow
Chaikin Volatility
Chande Forecast Oscillator
Chande Momentum Oscillator
Commodity Channel Index
Coppock Curve
Detrended Price Oscillator
Disparity Index
Donchian Channel
Donchian Width
Ease of Movement
Ehler Fisher Transform
Elder Force Index
Elder Ray Index
Fractal Chaos Oscillator
Gator Oscillator
High Low Bands
High minus Low
Highest High Value
Historical Volatility
Intraday Momentum Index
Keltner Channel
Klinger Volume Oscillator
Linear Reg Forecast
Lowest Low Value
MACD
Market Facilitation Index
Mass Index
Momentum Indicator
Money Flow Index
Moving Average
Moving Average Deviation
Moving Average Envelope
Negative Volume Index
On Balance Volume
Parabolic SAR
Positive Volume Index
Price Momentum Oscillator
Price Oscillator
Price Rate of Change
Prime Number Oscillator
Pring's Know Sure Thing
Pring's Special K
Psychological Line
QStick
Rainbow Oscillator
RAVI
Relative Strength Index (RSI)
Relative Vigor Index
Relative Volatility
Schaff Trend Cycle
Standard Deviation
STARC Bands
Stochastic Momentum
Stochastics
Swing Index
Time Series Forecast
Trade Volume Index
Trend Intensity Index
True Range
Twiggs Money Flow
Ulcer Index
Ultimate Oscillator
Vertical Horizontal Filter
Volume Oscillator
Williams %R
SQN Market Regime
N-Day Realized Volatility
Exclusively avaliable through SentimenTrader’s BackTest Engine.

Easy-to-Use
Conditions

Rate Of Change
% of Previous Range
MA Ratio
Range Rank
DrawDown %
DrawUp %
Net Change
All-time High
All-time Low
Consecutive Number of Days Above
Consecutive Number of Days Below
N-Day High
N-Day Low

Popular
Conditions

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CrossAbove
CrossBelow
Exclusively avaliable through SentimenTrader’s BackTest Engine.
SentimenTrader My Trading Toolkit

Build Your Own Personalized Trading Workspace — Custom Indicators, Screeners, Watchlists, and Alerts

With the My Trading Toolkit, you can design, monitor, and trade the markets in a way that’s completely tailored to you.
My Indicator — Create and Customize Your Own Signals‍
Easily build custom indicators or choose from SentimenTrader’s extensive indicator library. Apply them directly to your charts and backtests to make your analysis truly your own.
My Screen — Find Opportunities That Match Your Strategy‍
Set your own signal criteria and create personalized stock screeners. Filter by industry, sector, or index to quickly surface the stocks that fit your trading goals.
My Watchlist — Track What Matters Most to You
Follow your top tickers with up to 10 indicators each, customize the columns, and compare side by side for faster, more informed decision-making.
My Signal — Monitor and Act on Your Saved Signals
Automatically track your favorite trading signals and get real-time alerts when they trigger — so you never miss an opportunity to act.
Start Building Your Toolkit
SentimenTrader Correlation Analysis

Uncover Hidden Market Relationships with Proprietary Correlation Tools

Go beyond basic charts with SentimenTrader’s proprietary correlation analysis suite. Detect repeating price patterns, measure asset relationships, and evaluate portfolio risk with advanced, data-driven tools.
Correlation Pattern Match‍
Identify recurring price behaviors by matching any chosen time period to past trends — uncovering unique insights into market repetition.
Symbol Correlation Matrix‍
Compare one ticker against up to five others with a rolling correlation matrix and trend chart that highlight shifting market relationships.
Asset Correlation Heatmaps‍
See correlations across popular ETFs in an interactive heatmap showing returns, volatility, and correlation indices for better portfolio diversification.
Date Range Correlation‍
Analyze how two assets perform across different time periods to understand how specific events or market conditions affect performance.
Explore Correlation Tools
SentimenTrader Seasonality

Seasonality Analysis for Stocks, ETFs, and Markets — Spot Cyclical Trading Patterns with Confidence

Identify recurring market rhythms with SentimenTrader’s Seasonality tool. From daily tendencies to annual cycles, uncover how specific assets perform across timeframes and use these historically repeatable patterns to strengthen your trading strategies.
Pinpoint Daily and Calendar-Based Patterns
Identify recurring price behaviors by matching any chosen time period to past trends — uncovering unique insights into market repetition.
In-Depth Annual and Long-Term Seasonal Trends
Analyze years of historical data to uncover recurring cycles that guide long-term investment strategies.
Weekly and Monthly Cyclical Insights
Identify consistent weekly and monthly tendencies to anticipate cyclical moves and plan trades more strategically.
Actionable, Historically Validated Trading Edges
Leverage statistically proven seasonal trends to optimize timing, improve profitability, and add conviction to your trades.
Explore Seasonality Patterns
SentimenTrader Market Prediction

Identify Stocks on the Market’s Radar with Consolidated Analyst Forecasts

Market Prediction brings together public analyst forecasts into a single, easy-to-scan dashboard. Quickly see which stocks have meaningful analyst coverage, where target expectations are clustered, and how reliable analyst forecasts have been historically — helping you identify companies that may deserve deeper analysis.
See Where Analysts Are Focusing
Aggregated analyst ratings — including Buy, Hold, and Sell ratings — help you quickly understand how professional analysts are positioned and which companies are currently attracting market attention.
Evaluate Forecast Reliability and Expectations
Mean Accuracy metrics help you assess how reliable analyst forecasts have been historically. Combined with price target distributions and consensus expectations, this provides valuable context before relying on analyst projections.
All-in-One Company Snapshot
Click into any ticker to access a consolidated company overview that includes earnings and revenue forecasts, analyst rating distributions, price target ranges, historical earnings performance, ownership data, and other key fundamentals — all within a single dashboard.
Monitor Insider Activity
Track insider buy and sell transactions from company executives and directors, offering additional insight into how insiders may be positioned relative to analyst expectations.

What You See in the Dashboard

Each stock is presented with key information that helps you quickly evaluate analyst expectations and supporting data. The dashboard displays current price, consensus price targets, prediction horizon, analyst rating distributions, Mean Accuracy scores, earnings forecasts, and insider transaction activity — allowing you to quickly compare companies and identify ideas worth further research.
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Asset Management Consulting | Client Since 2020
SentimenTrader is a fantastic resource for traders. … It provides timely information on the state of various markets along with a wide range of tools, indicators, and strategies to dig as deep as you want. Highly recommended.
Frank C
Casual Retail Trader | Client Prior to 2018
Very easy-to-use, informative research tool. I would not want to manage my portfolio without the tools and research provided.
Market Prediction

Overview

The Market Prediction module is a powerful decision-support tool that aggregates forecasts from the market's leading analysts. It provides a comprehensive three-month outlook for specific tickers by synthesizing professional interpretations of current market conditions. By combining quantitative price targets with real-time financial data and insider activity, this feature empowers users to gain deeper insights into potential market opportunities and make data-driven investment choices.

Detailed Features & Value-Added Services

Market Prediction Summary
  • Intuitive Dashboard: Users can instantly view current prices, target prices, prediction end dates, and mean accuracy scores for various tickers (e.g., COIN, MSFT, NVDA).
  • Actionable Ratings: Displays the latest consensus ratings (Buy/Hold/Sell) to help users quickly filter and prioritize potential investments.
In-depth Analyst Insights
  • Analyst Rating Distribution: Features visual gauges and bar charts showing the sentiment spectrum from "Strong Buy" to "Strong Sell."
  • Historical Accuracy Tracking: Tracks the historical performance of forecasts (with some hitting 100% accuracy), allowing users to identify the most reliable analytical sources.
Comprehensive Fundamental Support
  • Earnings & Revenue Forecasts: Provides EPS trends, year-over-year (YoY) growth rates, and earnings surprises to ground price predictions in actual financial performance.
  • Cash Flow & Balance Sheet Analysis: Visualizes Free Cash Flow (FCF) trends and asset/liability structures, ensuring users understand a company's underlying financial health.
Real-time Monitoring & Insider Activity
  • Insider Transactions: Monitors buy/sell activities of company executives (e.g., transactions by Brian Armstrong) to capture internal sentiment regarding the company's future.
  • News & SEC Filings: Aggregates the latest market news and official SEC filings (such as Form 4 and 8-K), ensuring users stay informed about any material events affecting stock prices.
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