Comparing scenarios

Once you have two or more saved scenarios, the Compare tab lets you put them side-by-side.

How to use it

1. Open /compare from the top navigation
2. Tick the scenarios you want to compare
3. The table auto-populates with each scenario's best run (highest score, with most recent run as tiebreaker)

Each row is a metric, each column is a scenario.

Reading the colour cues

Cells use a hybrid colour scheme — both relative and absolute signals.

Relative — green vs red across scenarios

For every metric where one scenario beats the others:

• Green — the best value in that row across all selected scenarios
• Red — the worst value in that row

Best/worst ranking respects the metric's nature: higher is better for net PnL and win rate; lower is better for max drawdown.

If all scenarios have the same value, no green or red is applied.

Absolute — colour by quality

Even when no scenario stands out as clearly best, some metrics get colour purely based on their value:

• Net PnL — green if positive, red if negative
• Win rate — green ≥60%, red <40%
• Max drawdown — green <10%, orange 10–20%, red ≥20%
• Profit factor — green ≥1.5, red <1
• Sharpe — green ≥1.5, yellow ≥0.5, red below

The colour you see is the result of both rules combined: relative ranking takes priority, absolute colour fills in when no ranking applies.

Status

Each scenario shows its registry status as a coloured badge:

Change the status from each scenario's detail page (top-right dropdown). Use it to keep your dashboard tidy.

Tips

• Compare at most 4 scenarios at once — otherwise the table gets crowded and small differences get hard to spot.
• Compare strategies tested on the same data file. Comparing apples to oranges is meaningless.
• A strategy that scores B on stable data but A on cherry-picked dates is not an A strategy.