Find out if your edge is real

Edge Lab imports your broker statement and tests every pattern in your trade history, so you know which of your results are skill and which are luck.

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Most journals will find you an edge whether or not you have one

Slice a few hundred trades by day, session, symbol and setup and something always looks profitable. Test enough patterns and winners appear by chance alone.

Patterns that look profitable when tested one at a time Many
Patterns that survive correction for multiple testing Few
Why the difference, and what these bars show

The bars above are illustrative, not measured from your data. The effect they describe is real: when you test many hypotheses at once, the chance that at least one clears a significance threshold by luck rises with every extra test. Edge Lab applies a Benjamini-Hochberg correction across the whole family of patterns it examines and reports a q-value with each finding, so a result that only looks strong because it was one of fifty comparisons is marked as such rather than presented as a discovery.

How it works

1

Import your statement

Upload an MT4, MT5 or cTrader statement, or connect cTrader directly. Edge Lab reconciles it at deal level rather than trusting a summary row.

2

Get tested findings, not just charts

Edge Lab searches your history for patterns and reports each one with the strength of the evidence behind it, including how likely it is to be noise.

3

Test findings forward

Register a finding as a hypothesis and Edge Lab tracks it against the trades you take afterwards, which is the only honest test of a pattern found in past data.

What makes Edge Lab different

Every trading journal can show your win rate by day of week. The question none of them answer is whether that difference means anything.

  • Findings carry a q-value corrected across every pattern tested, not a raw win rate.
  • Deal-level reconciliation against your broker statement, not a summary import.
  • Forward experiments separate a pattern you found from a pattern that holds.
The statistical detail

Edge Lab controls the false discovery rate with the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure across the family of tests run on an account, and groups findings into families so corrections apply within comparable hypotheses. Each finding reports its effect size, sample size and q-value. Findings that fail the gate stay visible with the reason they failed, so you can see what was tested and what did not hold.

Who it is for

Prop firm traders

Evaluation and funded accounts leave little room for guessing which setups carry the account. Edge Lab shows which ones survive scrutiny.

Discretionary traders

If your decisions vary by session, mood or market state, Edge Lab measures which of those variations actually change your results.

Anyone leaving a spreadsheet

A manual journal records what happened. Edge Lab tests what it means, without you writing a single formula.

Questions

Which brokers and platforms does Edge Lab support?

Edge Lab imports statements from MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5 and cTrader, and can connect to cTrader accounts directly through the official cTrader Open API. File import covers any broker that can export one of those statement formats.

How many trades do I need before the findings mean anything?

It depends on the pattern, and Edge Lab tells you rather than guessing on your behalf. Each finding shows its sample size, and a finding that does not yet have enough data to test is shown with how many more trades it needs instead of being reported as a result.

Is Edge Lab a signal service? Does it tell me what to trade?

No. Edge Lab analyses trades you have already taken and reports what the evidence in your own history supports. It does not generate trade signals, forecasts or recommendations.

What happens when the trial ends?

The trial runs for 14 days with full Pro access and no credit card. If you do nothing at the end of it, the account simply stops having Pro access. Nothing is charged automatically, because no card was collected.

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