The complete user guide.

EdgeTest works in three steps. Describe your strategy in plain English, like "buy when the 50-day average crosses above the 200-day and sell at a 10 percent target". The AI turns it into exact rules. Then the engine tests those rules across roughly 10 years of real NSE end-of-day data and hands you a professional report in seconds.

You never write code. If you can describe your idea in a sentence, you can backtest it.

Market Today is a daily NSE cockpit: indices, sectors, India VIX, breadth, movers, 52-week extremes and FII/DII flows. Options Today covers the index options market: PCR, max pain, OI walls and the most active contracts. Stocks gives every F&O stock its own page combining the live option chain, implied vs realized volatility, delivery percentage, technicals, fundamentals and corporate filings. The Screener answers plain-English screens like "profitable IT companies with PE under 25". Corporate Actions and Bulk Deals round out the picture.

During market hours these pages use NSE data delayed about 15 minutes; after the close they show the last session, always labelled with its date.

Sign in with Google and you land in the Strategy Terminal. There are two modes, Equity and Options, switchable at the top. In both, a chat with Ella sits on the left and a visual strategy builder on the right - they stay in sync, so you can talk OR click, whichever you prefer.

The builder is never empty: a proven starter strategy is always loaded, so you can press Run immediately and tweak from there. Tell Ella "make the stop loss 5 percent" or edit the number directly - same result.

A complete equity strategy has four parts. The entry signal: when to buy, built from 50+ indicators (RSI, moving averages, MACD, Bollinger, Supertrend and more), combinable with AND/OR, plus optional fundamental filters like PE below 20. The exit rules: stop loss, target, maximum holding days, or a trailing stop. The universe: Nifty 50 to Nifty 500, sector baskets, or a single company. And the capital: a lump sum or a monthly/yearly SIP, with position sizing.

For options, pick from 20 ready structures (straddles, strangles, iron condors, spreads and more) on NIFTY, BANKNIFTY, FINNIFTY, MIDCPNIFTY or NIFTY Next 50, choose the expiry style and entry timing, and set profit-taking and stop rules on the premium.

A worked example to type into the chat:

CAGR is the average yearly growth rate of the portfolio over the whole test. For SIP strategies you get XIRR instead, the money-weighted yearly return. Maximum drawdown is the worst peak-to-bottom fall along the way - a 25 percent drawdown means at the worst moment the portfolio was down 25 percent from its high. Sharpe ratio is return per unit of risk; above 1 is generally good. Win rate is the percentage of trades that closed profitable, and profit factor is total money won divided by total money lost - above 1 means net profitable. Capital utilization shows how much of your money was actually deployed.

Every metric on the report has a plain-English tooltip, the equity curve is interactive, and the full trade log shows each entry, exit and reason - exportable as CSV.

Every number you see already has real trading costs deducted: brokerage, STT, exchange charges, SEBI fees, stamp duty, GST and slippage. The exact assumptions are disclosed in the cost card on every report.

Fills are deliberately conservative. If price gaps straight past your stop overnight, the simulation fills at the next open, not at your level. And if a single day touches both your stop and your target, the engine assumes the stop hit first. Real trading punishes optimism, so the backtest does too.

History keeps every run; select up to 4 and compare them side by side. Save the strategies you like. And when a strategy earns your trust, track it with Daily Strategy Signals: every trading evening EdgeTest re-runs your rules on the new data and records what they would have done - signals, entries, exits - with a virtual portfolio, plus a morning email digest around 8:15 AM IST. It is forward testing with zero real money at risk.

Free gives 10 backtests a month with 3 years of history on equity strategies. Pro (Rs 999 per month or Rs 8,999 per year) unlocks unlimited backtests, the full 10+ year history including the 2020 crash, options backtesting, the full Nifty 500 universe and exports. Details on the pricing page.