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Your Backtest Can Pass for the Wrong Reason: 5 Python Checks Before Deployment

A backtest does not need to crash to be broken. The dangerous version runs cleanly, produces a smooth equity curve, and reports a Sharpe ratio that makes deployment feel obvious. Then live performance diverges because one quiet assumption allowed future information, ignored trading costs, or rewarded the luckiest configuration.

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