Use Case — Build, Prove & Publish a Strategy

From idea to Marketplace: build it three ways, prove it honestly, pass the 365-day gate, run it on demo first, then publish free or paid.

Turn a trading idea into a tested strategy — and optionally publish it — without writing code. Strategy Lab is on every plan — Neural gets the Builder and 3 backtests a day, Pro 50, Institutional unlimited.

The flow

1 · Get the idea into the Lab

Open Strategy Lab and choose your path:

Builder — stack indicator conditions (RSI, EMA, SMA, MACD, ATR, Bollinger Bands, volume…) into entry rules, then pick exits and the risk block.
AI Agent — describe it in words; the agent maps it to a built-in template, backtests it and gives you the Pine Script.
Strategy Finder — enter only a symbol; it scans regimes, then brute-forces a grid of entry/stop/R:R variants with a locked holdout and a walk-forward check.

2 · Prove it honestly

Run the backtest: equity curve, win rate, profit factor, expectancy and max drawdown, with your fee setting applied (Strategy Finder also nets out funding and shows vs-HODL). Use Compare to put catalog strategies side by side. Be skeptical of a perfect curve; robustness across parameters beats a single lucky setting.

3 · Pass the publish gate

Save the strategy, then publish it. Publishing re-runs a 365-day backtest with an in-sample / out-of-sample check (≥ 30 trades, drawdown ≤ 30%, positive expectancy, profit factor ≥ 1.1, positive out-of-sample expectancy). Once it passes, the signal worker runs it on fresh candles and its forward record appears in Trades History — so you judge it on forward results, not the backtest.

4 · Run it

From the Marketplace, subscribe to a strategy and manage it in Subscriptions. Subscribing attaches it to a connected exchange account — start with a demo account; a live account counts toward your plan’s live-bot limit. See Bots & Automation.

5 · Publish & earn

Listings can be free or paid. Paid listings need an approved Partner (KYC) application on the Author page, where you also see subscribers, earnings and payouts. Compare historical tests with forward outcomes before choosing a strategy.