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Changelog
Changes to the Vanity Analysis research engine and platform, newest first.
New pricing, and example reports for each package
Platform- Strategy Analysis is now $9 and Premium Strategy Research is now $19. What each package includes is unchanged.
- Each package on the pricing section now links to example reports: two complete reports produced by the engine, one with a statistical edge and one without, shown exactly as a customer of that package receives them.
- The status page now runs live checks against the production systems each time it is opened.
Guidance for the simulator
Improvement- The Simulator step of a new analysis now explains how the starting balance and risk per trade are used, with a suggested starting point for anyone unsure what to enter.
Homepage rewritten around how the product works
Improvement- The features section, the research-process walkthrough and the FAQ now describe the product as it works today, including how markets are tested and simulated.
Strategy fidelity and risk assessment
Research- Strategies described as long-only or short-only now trade only in the direction described.
- Stops and targets written against a session's range can now be placed exactly as described.
- Intraday session shape is measured from more than 2,500 NQ trading sessions at each intraday resolution.
- Monte Carlo projections now run 2,000 forward paths.
- The risk profile is assessed from drawdown depth and persistence, volatility, risk of ruin and loss streaks — independently of whether the strategy was profitable.
Receipts, search and the Research Program
Platform- Purchases on the billing page can be downloaded as PDF receipts.
- Page titles, descriptions, sitemap, robots rules and site icons were brought up to date for search engines.
- The Research Program page now sets out the methodology in full: what is measured, how markets are generated, and what the research can and cannot tell you.
Product demo
Improvement- A walkthrough video of the product is linked from the homepage and the navigation bar.
Purchase acknowledgment at checkout
Platform- Checkout records the customer's request for immediate access to the research and their acknowledgment of the withdrawal terms, tied to the payment it concerns.
Password reset
Platform- Accounts can reset a forgotten password from an emailed link. Links are single-use and short-lived, and a reset signs the account out of every existing session.
Research Program, legal and documentation pages
Improvement- The Research Program page, the legal pages and the documentation were rewritten, along with the homepage section titles.
Report exports and account settings
Improvement- Reports download as PDF, and Premium trade histories export to CSV.
- A settings page for profile details and passwords was added to the dashboard.
Stop placement honoured
Fix- The stop entered on the analysis form is always the stop the simulation uses, and more ways of describing a stop are recognised.
Production database
Platform- Accounts, credits, payments and reports moved to PostgreSQL, with the full customer journey — sign-up, purchase, analysis, report — verified end to end.
Accounts, credits and payments
Platform- Real accounts with server-held credits and stored reports.
- Card payments through Stripe, with a clear message when a payment fails.
Forward Monte Carlo
Research- Monte Carlo analysis now projects forward from a strategy's own realised trades, rather than reshuffling the tested period.
- Stops stated in a trader's own words are read and priced.
Analysis periods and stored reports
Research- The analysis period is bounded by what can be simulated, and the loading screen reports the work actually being done.
- Finished reports are stored, so reopening one no longer re-runs the simulation.
- Opening-range strategies are anchored to the session they belong to.
Era-conditioned simulation
Research- Each simulated year is drawn from the measured behaviour of the era it represents.
- The simulation covers exactly the period requested, and the configuration is confirmed before an analysis is submitted.
- Comprehension issues found through adversarial testing were fixed, including negated phrasing.
Sequenced execution engine
Research- The engine was rebuilt to execute multi-step setups in the order they are described, and to test each strategy across an ensemble of independently generated markets.
Market-path execution
Research- Strategies are executed bar by bar against generated market paths, replacing the earlier outcome-based simulator.
- ES added as a measured market.
- ICT and Smart Money concepts are understood and executed.
First release
Platform- The public site, sign-in and the research dashboard.