Absolute markets lab
Test your idea on history before you put money on it
Describe a rule in a couple of lines, such as “buy when the price is above its average”, and within a second see how it would have traded on some fifty markets over 10–70 years: every trade, every drawdown and a comparison with plain “buy and hold”. The candles are fresh, straight from exchanges and central banks. Free, no sign-up, and everything is calculated in your browser.
US stocks: the 10-month average rule
A lab example: US share price index (OECD), capital growth on a log scale, 1957–2026
StrategyBuy and hold
What’s inside
Six parts of one lab, from your first look at a market to a tested strategy of your own.
Lab
A chart with candles and trades, a strategy editor, parameter sliders, a test on new data, a parameter map and a cost stress test.
Test an ideaStrategies
Ten classic rules, from the 10-month moving-average filter to the Turtles, with sources and an honest table of results on eight markets.
See the tableMarkets
Russia, the US, Europe and Asia, gold and oil, currencies, crypto, Vietnam: how each market works, how to get access to it and what its dangers are.
Choose a marketView
The regime of each market as of the data date by simple trend rules, global trends and principles for the short and the long term.
See the market viewBasics
Candles, orders, risk, test metrics and backtest traps, briefly and with sources. Plus honest statistics on where frequent trading ends up.
Read the basicsStrategy language
A couple of dozen words in English or Russian: buy, sell, stop, sma, rsi. No programming and no code you cannot read.
Open the referenceHow to test an idea
Choose a market
The MOEX Russia Index, the S&P 500, gold, bitcoin or your own CSV file: daily and weekly candles, and hourly ones for some markets.
Describe the rule
Take a strategy from the library or write your own: when to buy, when to sell, where the stop is.
Compare with buy and hold
Return, worst drawdown, trades and results by year, side by side with a simple purchase and no further action.
Try to break it
Test the rule on new data, on neighboring parameters and with double costs. Whatever survives is a reason to keep thinking, not a guarantee.
Markets now
Price, change and regime by a trend rule, from fresh candles that your browser takes straight from the sources.
The numbers are calculated in your browser from fresh source candles.
Numbers the ads leave out
The lab is not here for pretty charts. It is here so you see the risk before the trade.
of day traders in Brazil who traded intraday for 300 days or more ended up with a loss (Chague, De-Losso, Giovannetti).
a year was the average return of a retail portfolio in Russia in 2023–2025; only 9% of investors beat the stock index with dividends (Bank of Russia, June 2026).
Donchian channel variants on crypto passed the checks set in advance in the Absolute lab experiments (October 2026).
Principles
Honest numbers
Every number has a source and a date. Costs in every test. Not a single promise of returns.
Privacy
No accounts, cookies or analytics. Strategies and files stay in your browser.
Testing
Every rule is measured against buy and hold, on new data and with double costs.
Community
You can share a strategy with a link. Knowledge is open to everyone, free, in three languages.
Questions
Are these signals on what to buy?
No. AbsoTrade shows how rules would have traded on history, and the general regime of markets by simple formulas. This is not individual investment advice: such advice takes into account your goals, time horizon and risk, and none of that is here.
Where does the data come from, and how fresh is it?
Your browser takes exchange candles (Moscow Exchange, Binance, VNDirect) straight from the exchanges, so they are fresh at the moment you open the page. Open data (Bank of Russia, EIA, Fed, OECD) is kept on our server. The source of every series is on the Data page.
Can I connect a broker and trade from here?
No. AbsoTrade does not trade, accept money or copy trades. It is a lab: test an idea, understand the risk and decide for yourself.
Where are my strategies stored?
Only in your browser (localStorage) and in the link, if you share it. Your own CSV file is also read right in the browser and is not sent anywhere.
Why are real-life results worse than in the test?
Taxes, wide slippage in a panic, missed trades, emotions and a rule fitted to history. A test shows the best case for the rule, not for the person.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. The library has ten ready-made strategies with parameter sliders, and the rule language is a couple of dozen words, such as “buy when” and “stop 5%”. Russian keywords work too.
How much does it cost?
Nothing. AbsoTrade is a project of the Absolute community, open to everyone.