This incident was a wake-up call for us. We saw how existing backtesting and execution tools were misleading retail traders, offering incomplete information and presenting a rosy picture that backtested strategies would always be profitable live. But as any experienced trader knows, trading isn’t that simple.

And we wanted to address this gap.

With backgrounds in professional trading and technology, we skipped building a social media presence and went straight to building a solution. Just three months later, we launched India’s first free options backtester.