Getting started

What Fincanva is, the objects everything else is built from, and finding your way around the app.

28 pages4 guides · 24 termsUPDATED 2026-08-04

01 · Build

02 · Prove

03 · Hold

Foundations

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What is Fincanva, and what can you do with it?

Fincanva is a research and simulation tool: a strategy-building and backtesting platform where you build, combine, screen, backtest, and analyze strategies.

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Get started with Fincanva in five steps

Create your first strategy, pick a strategy type, complete the guided stepper, run a backtest and read the result — the five steps on a new account.

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The Fincanva loop

The Fincanva loop is the product's core workflow: build a strategy, backtest it on real market history, analyze the result, then refine and go round again.

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The nine biases Fincanva helps you avoid

The nine research biases that distort backtests — look-ahead, survivorship, overfitting and more — and the Fincanva behavior that reduces each one.

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Core product objects

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Base — defines the term from zero, no prior vocabulary assumed · Intermediate — builds on base terms

Fincanva provides no financial advice. Backtests show what would have happened — not what will.

GETTING STARTED · 28 PAGES