A strategy is one market, one timeframe, and a set of rules. You create the shell first — naming the market and the timeframe — and then build it up on the tabs across the top of the strategy page.
Creating a strategy#
Click New Strategy and the creation wizard walks you through it:
- Timeframe — the candle size your rules run on: 1m, 5m, 15m, 30m, 1h, 4h or 1d.
- Market — search for the ticker and name the strategy.
- Optional extras — additional indicators, a bias line, and a take-profit style. Every one of these is clearly skippable: they can all be configured later on the Build tab, and usually should be.
- Launch — optionally start paper trading right away on the platform's keyless paper venue with an allocation you choose. No API keys needed.
Started from a Squad's page (yours or a community one), the wizard arrives pre-wired with that Squad's Committee Decision indicator and a ready-made follow-the-squad rule pack — see Sharing and following Squads.
Press the final Create and you land on the strategy page.
Ticker and Timeframe are the two choices you cannot easily change later — they shape everything the rules see. If you want the same idea on ETH as well as BTC, build one, get it working, then duplicate it onto the other market from the Options tab or with the assistant.
Where everything lives#
The tabs across the top are the whole builder. You will spend almost all your time on the first four.
| Tab | What you do there |
|---|---|
| Overview | The market, timeframe and the Enabled for Trading switch |
| Indicators | Add the calculations your rules read (RSI, EMA, …) |
| Signals | Write the rules that open and close positions |
| Bias Generators | Optional directional filters |
| Risk Management | Set the stop loss and take profit |
| Positions | The trades this strategy has taken |
| View Chart | Entries and exits drawn on the candles |
| Reports | Backtest results |
| Monte Carlo Sim | Stress-test a backtest by reshuffling its trades |
| Notifications | Alert channels for this strategy |
Build in that order — indicators, then signals, then risk — because each one depends on the one before it. A signal can only reference an indicator you have already added, and a stop loss only matters once signals are opening positions.
The order of work#
Editing without fooling yourself#
Changing a strategy's rules does not change its past backtests. After any edit — a new indicator, a tweaked threshold, a different stop — press Run Backtest again, or the numbers on the Reports tab still describe the old strategy.
Before you start experimenting on a strategy you like, press Commit to snapshot it. That saves a numbered version you can always restore, so you can try a bolder change without losing the one that worked. See strategy versioning.
Editing while a strategy is paper- or live-trading changes the rules the running strategy uses from that point on. It does not close open positions, but the next signal follows the new rules. Turn off Enabled for Trading first if you want to rework a strategy that is running.