You don't need to learn C# to test the idea you already have
Build the strategy by pointing and clicking, backtest it on real tick data, and run it live at your broker. Same strategy, all the way through. No export, no rewrite.
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Drag conditions onto the canvas, wire them with AND/OR, set the long and short rules on the right. That's a complete strategy, and there's no code behind it to maintain.
Every trader with a good idea hits the same one
You know your setup. You've traded it a hundred times. You could describe it in one sentence to another trader and they'd know exactly what you mean.
But to test whether it actually makes money over two years of data, you need to write code. So the idea sits there, untested, and you keep trading it on faith because finding out would take a month you don't have.
If you can describe the setup out loud, you can build it here.
"When the current bar is a 20-bar swing low and RSI is under 30 and price is above the 200 on the hourly, go long, stop under the swing, target two to one." That sentence is four conditions and a bracket. In AlgoStudio Pro it's about five minutes of clicking, and then you know.
Conditions on anything, wired the way you think
- Any indicator, any plot. The free standard library, the premium order flow and TradeDevils tools, and your own custom studies. Set the parameters, choose the plot, use it as a signal.
- A full operator set. Greater than, crosses above, rises, and the rest. Compare an indicator to a level, to price, or to another indicator.
- Multi-timeframe inside one rule. Require alignment on a higher timeframe the way a discretionary trader would actually check it, without running two strategies.
- Swings, bars and price action. Conditions built from swing highs and lows, bar direction and price relationships, not just indicator crossings.
- Separate entry and exit logic. Long, short or both, each with its own rules, so the strategy knows when to get in and when to leave.
Order types and trigger modes control how a signal becomes an order, from immediate market entries to stop and limit triggers.
A strategy is only as good as what happens after the entry
Trade management is built in, not bolted on afterwards.
Stops, targets, sizing
Attach protective orders and position sizing to every trade, or hand execution to an ATM strategy so trades are managed exactly the way you'd manage them by hand.
Session control
Trading-hours windows, entry sequencing, and automatic flattening at the end of the session. The strategy trades your hours, not the exchange's.
News blocking
Stand aside around high-impact news instead of getting caught in the spread. One setting, and it applies for as long as the strategy runs.
Test it on real tick data, then change one thing and test again
The design runs over historical tick data and reports the full performance picture: trades, win rate, profit and loss, drawdown, the lot.
The value isn't the first backtest. It's the tenth. Change a condition, adjust a stop, retest, watch the numbers move. That iteration loop is where you find out whether your idea has an edge or whether one parameter was carrying the whole thing.
A backtest is evidence, not a promise. What it does is replace "I think this works" with "here's what it did over two years, and here's what happened when I moved the stop". That's a much better position to make a decision from, and it's the entire reason this tool exists.
The strategy you tested is the strategy that trades
Not an export. Not a re-code into another language. The same design, running at your broker through the built-in engine.
Guardrails included
Session windows, end-of-session flattening, news blocking and risk limits, so a bad run can't run away from you while you're not watching.
Your broker, your account
Runs on the connection you already have. No separate execution platform, no bridge to maintain, no third piece of software in the chain.
Still yours to change
Open the design, adjust a rule, retest, redeploy. It stays a visual strategy you can read, not a compiled artifact you're afraid to touch.
If you're in an evaluation, the rules are the job
Trailing drawdown, daily loss limits, consistency requirements. A strategy that makes money and breaks one of those is a strategy that fails the evaluation.
So the firm rules are presets. Pick your firm and account type, and the drawdown, daily loss and contract limits fill themselves in. Your strategy gets designed against the exact rules it has to survive, from the first click rather than after the first blown account.
Pair it with the Auto Strategy Builder and you can search specifically for strategies that clear a firm's evaluation, instead of finding out the hard way.
Four people, one tool
The discretionary trader
You have a repeatable setup and you want to know if it holds up. You don't code and you're not going to start. This is how you find out, in an afternoon.
The systematic trader
You want to iterate fast without a scripting language and a compile cycle standing between the idea and the answer.
The prop firm trader
You need strategies that respect evaluation rules. Design them against the rules, then let the builder find the ones that pass.
The learner
Building and backtesting visually is the fastest honest education in what actually works. Most of it doesn't, and finding that out cheaply is the point.
Find out whether your setup actually works
Build it this afternoon, backtest it tonight, and stop trading it on faith.
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The questions we get
Do I really not need to code?
Correct. It's a visual designer. You combine conditions and actions with point-and-click logic and the platform turns that into a real, runnable strategy. There's no scripting layer underneath that you'll eventually be forced to learn.
Can I use any indicator?
Yes. The free standard library, the premium order flow and TradeDevils indicators, and your own custom studies if you've written any. Set the indicator's parameters and choose which plot drives the signal.
Can I run it live, or is it backtest only?
Live. Same strategy, at your broker, through the built-in execution engine with session control, news blocking and risk limits.
Is it prop-firm friendly?
Yes, with presets for firm and account type that set the drawdown, daily loss and contract limits for you. The Auto Strategy Builder can then evaluate whether a strategy would actually pass a firm's rules.
How is this different from the Auto Strategy Builder?
Two halves of the same lab. AlgoStudio Pro is for the idea you already have and want to build by hand. The Auto Strategy Builder generates and stress-tests thousands of strategies and hands you the survivors. Anything it finds loads straight into this designer, so you can move between building by hand and building by machine.
Which plan includes it?
Ultimate and the Lifetime licence, along with the Auto Strategy Builder and the full premium suite. See pricing.