About StratPick

StratPick is a free, educational tool for exploring how simple, rule-based investment strategies would have performed. Build a strategy, backtest it against ~15 years of real daily market data for 200+ US stocks and ETFs, see a full set of risk/return metrics, and — if you like — put it on a public leaderboard to compare with others.

It's a learning game, not a brokerage and not an advisory service. There are no accounts, no personal data collection, and no real money. Nothing here connects to any real trading account.

Data

Historical prices are daily adjusted close (adjusted for splits and dividends) sourced from Yahoo Finance, used for educational/non-commercial analysis. Data may contain errors or gaps and is provided as-is.

Why it exists

To make backtesting concepts — compounding, drawdown, Sharpe ratio, trend vs. momentum vs. mean-reversion — tangible and fun, and to show honestly how easy it is to overfit history (see the scoring methodology).