Copy, Rerun, and Import Backticks

Iterating is most of backtesting: duplicate a run to tweak it, rerun a finished test over fresh data, import a Backtick someone shared with you, and export the trades when you want the raw numbers.

Copy one of your own runs

The Copy Backtick icon appears on the Backtick Dashboard, in the Backtick Library, and on the Compare pages. Copying creates a new draft with everything carried over: positions and their dependencies, the test period, starting balance, skip days, commission profile, and your slippage and delay overrides. The copy gets a copy-style name and opens straight into the Create Backtick builder, so the usual loop is copy, change one thing, queue, and compare the two runs side by side with Compare Backticks.

Copy a single position out of a run

You can also copy one position out of a multi-position Backtick. On the results page, open the position focused with its Results action (see Read Your Backtick Results); the Copy action on the focused page then copies just that position into a new standalone one-position draft. Because its siblings are not coming along, the copy is unlinked on the way out: dependencies on other positions, launch-on-stop links, and multi-entry family ties are all removed, and the copy runs as an independent position. If the position carries any of those links, a confirmation window explains this before the copy is made.

Rerun and edit-and-rerun

Two Library row actions cover the rerun cases:

• Backtick Quick Rerun is available for completed or failed runs. It prefills the run's name, start and end dates, commission profile, and starting balance so you can rerun as-is or nudge the dates. The Quick Timeframes row offers one-click presets like trailing periods, year-to-date, and since-a-year choices, and the Use Latest Data button snaps the end date to the most recent available data. It is the quickest way to refresh an old test.
• Trash Results and Edit Backtick resets a completed run back to draft so you can change its positions and run it again. The existing results are discarded, which is why the Confirm Edit and Rerun setting asks you to confirm first.

The Library lifecycle: Saved, Unsaved, Archived, Trash

The Backtick Library organizes runs into five tabs: Saved, Unsaved, Archived, All, and Trash. Each row has a lifecycle control that moves the run between Saved, Unsaved, and Archived, and on the Trash tab that same control is how you restore something you want back.

Unsaved runs are temporary: when your purge delay expires they move to Trash, and Trash items are permanently deleted 7 days later. The delay (1 to 90 days) and the option to mark new runs Saved automatically live in Backtick User Settings. Two cleanup buttons speed things along when you want them gone now: Purge Unsaved Now on the Unsaved tab and Empty Trash on the Trash tab.

Import a shared Backtick into your account

A share link does more than display results. With an active Backtick subscription, you can copy the shared Backtick into your own account and work with it as if you built it: it arrives as a draft with the positions, test period, and settings intact, ready to edit and queue.

A few things are localized to you on the way in: your default commission profile replaces the sharer's, and the sharer's position accounts are replaced with generic placeholder accounts you can reassign. Premium-only data such as the signals file is stripped when your plan does not include Backtick Premium, and you will see an upgrade prompt if that happened. See Share Backtick Results for the sharing side.

Export trades and balances to CSV

On the results page, Export Trades downloads the run's full trade log as a CSV, and Export Daily Balances does the same for the daily balance series, so you can slice the raw data in a spreadsheet. Bot-vs-Backtick comparison reports have their own export, covered in Compare Live Bot Trades to a Backtick.