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# Not financial advice

No: Fincanva is a research and simulation tool that lets you build, [backtest](/glossary/backtest), and follow strategies. Nothing in the app or these docs is a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any [instrument](/glossary/instrument).

Fincanva is for education and illustration only. It is not personalised financial advice, and past or simulated results do not predict future ones. [Read the Terms Addendum](https://fincanva.com/terms/addendum#section-3)

## Is this financial advice?

No. The sentence above is Fincanva's whole position, word for word as it stands at the foot of every page of these docs and of every page's Markdown copy: one sentence, kept in one place, so it cannot [drift](/glossary/weight-drift) from page to page.

## What Fincanva does and does not tell you
Fincanva shows you what a [strategy](/glossary/strategy) would have done on historical data and how its rules behave; it does not tell you what to invest in or what will happen to your money. Decisions about your money are yours, and you are responsible for them.

## Does a good backtest mean the strategy will make money?
No. A backtest shows what would have happened over a past period, not what will happen next. A strong historical result is not a promise of future gains — Fincanva will not tell you whether a strategy is a good investment, because that is advice and Fincanva gives none.

## Related
For a headline result metric that describes the shape of a backtest, see [CAGR](/glossary/cagr).