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# BigBeluga - Strategy Builder

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**BigBeluga – Backtester** is a comprehensive backtesting framework that unifies the [**Market Waves Toolkit**](/main-toolkits/market-waves-pro-tm.md), [**Market Core Toolkit**](/main-toolkits/market-core-pro-tm.md), and [**Nautilus**](/main-toolkits/nautilus-oscillator-pro-tm.md) into a single adaptive environment.

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It enables traders to simulate and refine a wide range of trading strategies — from **Smart Money Concepts (SMC)** to **trend-following**, **mean-reversion**, and **momentum-based systems** — using real market structure and historical data.

By integrating advanced market-wave detection, structural analysis, liquidity modeling, and oscillator dynamics, the **BigBeluga Backtester** delivers a complete, modular testing ecosystem.&#x20;

Traders can combine multiple signal layers — including trend signals, order blocks, fair value gaps, SFPs, divergences, and flow-based retests — to design complex confluence logic with full control over entry, exit, and risk-management behavior.

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This backtesting engine transforms any trading concept into a **data-driven model**, allowing users to validate ideas, measure performance, and optimize strategy parameters with institutional-grade precision and execution consistency.

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