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backtest-expert skillA

backtest-expert is agent-read markdown (skill) from tradermonty/claude-trading-skills: Expert guidance for systematic backtesting of trading strategies. Use when developing, testing, stress-testing, or validating quantitative trading strategies. Covers "beating ideas to death" methodology, parameter robustness testing, slippage modeling, bias prevention, and interpreting backtest results. Applicable when user asks about backtesting, strategy validation, robustness testing, avoiding overfitting, or systematic trading development..

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add tradermonty/claude-trading-skills/backtest-expert@git:20260225.09a9359
Exact content
mdr add tradermonty/claude-trading-skills/backtest-expert@sha256:316c87c2d2b8e4c0

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

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git:20260225.09a9359 latest2026-02-25 09a9359 8,664 BA view · diff
git:20260220.1068ba62026-02-20 1068ba6 8,733 BA view · diff
git:20260220.88ddf1f2026-02-20 88ddf1f 8,743 BA view · diff
git:20260104.f90e8222026-01-04 f90e822 7,789 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8664 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

tradermonty/claude-trading-skills · 2,853 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-18 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yoizoj4j3wl2ea4i
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tradermonty/claude-trading-skills/backtest-expert
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/316c87c2d2b8e4c03d6ea7fb6dadf9a0905f980232c885e5ba99d08183d0d041

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