Daily and Hourly Timeframes in Backtests

How ZadVest rule-builder backtests use supported daily and hourly bars, including cross-timeframe combinations where available.

Timeframe choices change the question being tested, so they belong beside every backtest result.

Daily and hourly bars

ZadVest rule-builder tests can work with supported daily and hourly bar settings. A daily view smooths intraday movement, while an hourly view exposes more short-term variation.

The same idea can produce different historical behavior when the timeframe changes.

Cross-timeframe context

Where supported, a rule can combine daily pattern context with hourly condition confirmation. That keeps a broader pattern and a shorter-term condition in the same research workflow.

Cross-timeframe tests add assumptions. The timeframe labels are part of the result, not a background detail.

Period limits

Hourly pattern searches can have stricter period limits than daily tests because they process denser data.

Those limits are part of making the web app responsive and keeping test requests bounded.