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Short, searchable articles on AlgoCrucible's validation pipeline — or read the whole journey on one page in the illustrated walkthrough.

Validation pipeline & certification

• The six-stage validation funnel — overview

  The funnel at a glance: six stages, each asking a harder question.

• Setup: connect AlgoCrucible to NinjaTrader and pick a strategy

  Connect AlgoCrucible to NinjaTrader 8 and pick a strategy.

• Configure & Optimize: is there any edge at all?

  Choose which parameters to search, run the Bayesian optimizer, read the result the right way.

• Walk-forward: does the edge survive data it never saw?

  Test the edge on data it never saw, and check the settings hold still.

• Audit: the deploy gate — ROBUST or MIRAGE

  The deploy gate: one fixed setting, two unseen periods, ROBUST or MIRAGE.

• Perturbation & Monte Carlo: plateau, cliff edge, and what luck could do

  Plateau or cliff edge — then reshuffle history to see what luck could have done.

• Certification: modeled odds against a real prop-firm evaluation

  Model your strategy against a specific prop-firm evaluation's rules.