Transfer to TradingView

Checking the Backtest in TradingView

Scribe has already backtested the strategy; the numbers on the Performance and Trade Analysis tabs are the result. Once the script is on a TradingView chart, TradingView replays the same rules over its own price history and produces a report of its own, which makes it a useful second check: the same strategy, tested a second time, by a second engine. Two things are worth confirming in the report:

• The trades. Open List of trades in the report and click a few rows; each jumps to that trade on the chart. The entries and exits should fire where the strategy's rules say, and line up with the trades on Scribe's Trade Analysis tab.
• The headline figures. Total P&L, Max equity drawdown, Total trades, Profitable trades and Profit factor are TradingView's names for Scribe's Net profit, Max DD, Trades, Win rate and Profit factor. Expect them to be close to Scribe's rather than identical; the two engines run on slightly different price history, and the FAQ explains why. What matters is that the shape of the result holds.

Things to Try in TradingView

The chart is also the easiest place to test assumptions Scribe did not:

• Costs. The gear beside the strategy's name in the chart legend opens its settings, and the Properties tab holds the commission, slippage, order size and initial capital the report uses. The script carries the commission and order size Scribe tested with, so leave them alone for a like-for-like comparison, or set your own broker's fee and a few ticks of slippage to see what the strategy looks like after real costs.
• Other markets and timeframes. Change the chart's symbol or timeframe and the report recomputes for it. Portfolio Backtest in Scribe does the same thing in a click, with the result kept beside the original.
• A date range. Drag the chart to a particular stretch of history, or use the date-range control on plans that offer it, to see how the strategy behaved through one specific period.

For everything the report can do beyond this, see TradingView's Strategies documentation.

Alerts

Scribe itself sends no alerts. Once the script is on your chart, TradingView's own alert system applies to it like any strategy. Set the trigger to Once Per Bar Close: the strategy was tested on closed bars, and any other setting acts on prices that can still move.