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Check out the new article: Hypothesis Testing for Trading Strategies — Proving Whether Your Edge is Real.
Net profit and win rate do not tell you if a strategy's edge is statistically real. This MQL5 toolkit analyzes return series built from price data or deal history and reports t‑statistics, p‑values, and confidence intervals using one-sample and Welch t‑tests, the Mann–Whitney U test, and volatility‑regime analysis to support evidence‑based trading decisions.
A positive backtest is not proof of anything. With enough symbols, timeframes, and parameter combinations, random noise alone will eventually produce a curve that looks exactly like this. The question a serious trader has to answer isn't "did this strategy make money in the past?" — it's "is there statistical evidence that this strategy's returns are different from what pure chance would produce?"
That is a hypothesis testing question, and it has a well-defined, rigorous answer. This article builds that answer from the ground up in pure MQL5 — no external libraries, no Python, no spreadsheets. One thing to flag up front: the toolkit can use two very different data sources. A “significant” result means different things depending on the source. Testing raw price history is not the same claim as testing your strategy's realized trades, even though the same statistical machinery is used. That distinction gets its own section below, and it's worth reading closely before you trust any conclusion the script prints. By the end, you will have a single reusable script, HypothesisTestToolkit.mq5, that:
Author: Kayode Michael Oyetunde