Backtested Strategies Announces BTS Heatmaps
Backtested Strategies announces BTS Heatmaps, interactive market seasonality research tools that turn completed calendar-year price history into weekly views of return, consistency, volatility, relative performance, data depth, and BTS Zones across indexes, sectors, and industries.
BTS Heatmaps make historical market seasonality easier to research by letting users compare market groups by calendar week and evaluate patterns alongside supporting data depth and risk context.
The current heatmap lineup includes Major Indexes, U.S. Sectors, and Industry ETFs.
What BTS Heatmaps include
BTS Heatmaps are designed to show more than one seasonal number. Instead of limiting users to a single average-return view, each heatmap lets users evaluate the same weekly history through multiple research lenses.
The eight heatmap metrics are:
- Average Return
- Median Return
- Positive Week Rate
- Volatility
- Return / Volatility
- Sample Size
- Relative Return vs S&P 500
- Win Rate vs S&P 500
That structure lets users compare different questions side by side: whether a week has historically produced strong average returns, whether the result was consistent, how volatile the week was, how much sample history supports the reading, and whether the group tended to outperform or underperform the S&P 500 during the same BTS week.
The heatmaps also include BTS Zones, a proprietary overlay that highlights All Data periods of unusual relative strength or weakness versus the S&P 500. The overlay separates those views into BTS Strength Zones and BTS Weakness Zones, giving users another way to flag periods for deeper review while keeping the core heatmap focused on historical research, not prediction.
Built for evidence-first seasonal research
BTS Heatmaps are built for evidence-first seasonal research. Strong colors and recurring patterns can help identify areas worth studying, but the platform is designed to keep those patterns connected to context: history range, Sample Size, volatility, relative performance, and benchmark comparison.
Heatmap cells and BTS Zones are historical summaries, not forecasts, trading signals, or trading recommendations.
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About Backtested Strategies
Backtested Strategies (BTS), operated by Marquantex LLC, is a financial research publisher built around the BTS Methodology, a standardized framework for testing trading strategies with stated rules, consistent assumptions, benchmark discipline, cost and slippage treatment, portfolio accounting, and clear interpretation so readers can evaluate market ideas through evidence rather than hype or unsupported claims.