Alpha & signals
A signal expresses direction and conviction. Position sizing, rebalancing and execution determine how that forecast becomes a trading strategy.
Explore alpha & signalsTurn ideas into trading strategies with a coordinated team of AI agents. Stratmill automates coding, backtesting, parameter optimization and risk review, with paper trading and separately authorized live execution.
Strategy development, validation and controlled execution.

An AI research agent develops the idea. An AI coding agent builds and revises the strategy.
Explore strategy researchAn AI analyst examines backtests. A separate AI risk reviewer challenges the findings.
Explore backtestingStart with your own idea or enable Autopilot. The AI research agent develops testable hypotheses using available market context, prior outcomes and recorded lessons.
The AI developer writes and revises the strategy. Automated verification and an AI QA reviewer check the code, data use and trading logic.
The backtest engine simulates trades with historical data, configured fees and execution assumptions. The AI analyst evaluates the results and recommends further testing, revision or abandonment.
Optimization tools run sensitivity, walk-forward and holdout tests. The AI analyst assesses robustness; a separate AI risk reviewer examines the evidence and proposed exceptions.
The AI portfolio agent reviews promotion and portfolio fit. Approved strategies enter paper trading; supported live execution requires your authorization, a connected account and execution controls.
Follow the AI agents’ work through recorded stages, reports and review decisions. A failed check or review can send the strategy back for revision or end the run.
Illustrative example · not a live result
AI agents develop the idea, write code and assess the test results. Review findings can send the strategy back for another iteration.
An illustrative equity curve reveals setbacks along the way. Inspect drawdown and trading costs before interpreting a result.
Compare account equity with closed-trade balance. An open position can change equity before a trade closes.
Read the evidence
Read the hypothesis developed by the AI research agent, inspect simulated trades, and follow the AI analyst’s findings and the AI risk review. Public strategy records show the available evidence behind the AI team’s work.
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Develop strategies across crypto, equities and prediction markets with AI agents and venue-specific testing engines. Data coverage, paper trading and live execution support vary by market and venue.
Long/short with up to 20× leverage on Binance USD-M, Bybit and Hyperliquid perps — funding-rate accrual included in every backtest.
Watch live marketsLong-only strategies on Binance spot with strict cash-account accounting — no phantom shorts, no fantasy margin.
Watch live marketsCoin-margined contracts settled in BTC or ETH, with proper inverse-PnL accounting — the venue where hedgers actually trade.
Watch live marketsDeribit and Binance options on real chains — including rolling archetypes like weekly strangles and covered calls that re-strike automatically. Live chains from five exchanges, US equities and indices included.
Open the options chainUS stock and ETF research with exchange-session calendars, historical data and simulated trading during market hours. Available symbols and data freshness are shown in the market and data views.
Watch US stocks livePolymarket binary event markets — crypto up/down series and macro events. Prices are probabilities; strategies trade the odds.
Explore prediction marketsNews from public RSS and aggregated feeds, filings and macro sources can be scored into sentiment inputs. Availability and timestamps depend on the source; inspect the live feed and the data used by each run.
Read the live news feedThe backtest engine produces performance, drawdown and trade records. AI agents review that evidence and record their findings. This example illustrates the report format; open the strategy list to inspect published records.
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These are configured backtest defaults for selected venues. They are modeling inputs, not a quote for your exchange account; fee tiers and instrument-specific rules can differ.
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| Venue | Instrument | Maker | Taker | Configured leverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Binance | USD-M Futures | 0.020% | 0.050% | 20× |
| Hyperliquid | Perps | 0.015% | 0.045% | 20× |
| Bybit | Linear | 0.020% | 0.055% | 20× |
| Binance | COIN-M Inverse | 0.010% | 0.050% | 20× |
| Binance | Spot | 0.100% | 0.100% | 1× |
| Hyperliquid | Spot | 0.040% | 0.070% | 1× |
| Deribit | Options | 0.030% | 0.030% | — |
| Polymarket | Prediction | 0.000% | 0.000% | 1× |
Applicable funding, slippage, market impact and margin rules are modeled alongside fees. The current Polymarket backtest configuration uses zero maker/taker fees; that is a simulation assumption, not a claim that every live market is free.
AI research, coding, QA, analysis, risk and portfolio agents have distinct roles. The factory connects their decisions to testing engines, revision loops and release checks, keeping the strategy’s development history together.
Automated verification, walk-forward and holdout tests probe overfitting. The AI analyst evaluates the findings, and a separate AI risk reviewer examines proposed exceptions before promotion.
Historical market data, configured fees and execution assumptions model trading costs. Coverage and fill realism depend on the instrument and available data.
Inspect published strategies and their backtest records before subscribing. Publishers receive 70% of strategy subscription revenue.
AI research agents can draw on prior outcomes and recorded lessons. Paid workspaces can also use the platform research corpus; private workspace research stays separate.
Paper trading runs the exact same engine as the backtest — each survivor in its own isolated live node, filled against real exchange quotes.
Strategies can attach stop-loss and take-profit as venue-side bracket orders — the same contingent orders a desk would place, modeled end to end.
Equity curves are marked to market on every bar, unrealized PnL included — and leveraged strategies get liquidated when margin runs out, just like on the venue.
Explore historical candles and supplementary inputs such as funding, open interest, options data and news sentiment. Check the Data page for available coverage.
Review a listing and its backtest evidence before subscribing. Published source stays protected; a subscription creates a strategy copy in your workspace. Publishers receive 70% of the subscription credits.
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Follow the workflow from forecast research to portfolio decisions and controlled execution. Each stage has its own evidence and responsibilities.
A signal expresses direction and conviction. Position sizing, rebalancing and execution determine how that forecast becomes a trading strategy.
Explore alpha & signalsA correlation matrix reveals strategies that move together. Effective bets help distinguish the number of strategies from the amount of independent exposure.
Explore portfolio constructionLive authorization is tied to a strategy release and your connected account. A paper result or a plan purchase alone does not authorize real orders.
Explore live tradingCredits meter the AI work your research consumes. Start with a free monthly allowance; paid plans add capacity and access to the platform research corpus.
Active runs are concurrent slots, not a daily launch allowance. Daily launch limits and available credits also apply.
Yes. When you enable Autopilot, the AI research agent can propose new hypotheses and start them through the development pipeline. It uses the context and prior outcomes available to your workspace. Credits, daily launch limits and available capacity still apply. You can also submit your own ideas, and every strategy remains subject to testing and review.
They are AI-powered software agents, each assigned a role in strategy development: research, coding, QA, analysis, risk review or portfolio review. Backtesting and verification engines run the simulations and automated checks that inform those reviews. Strategies must pass the applicable admission and release checks before paper trading; an AI recommendation alone does not enable live trading.
You can start in plain language. An AI research agent develops your hypothesis, an AI developer writes the code, and AI QA and analyst agents review the implementation and results. Trading knowledge helps you judge their work, assumptions and risks.
Research and paper trading use simulated funds. Live execution is a separate, restricted workflow requiring explicit authorization and a configured trading account. It is not enabled by starting a research run or buying a plan, and real capital can be lost if live trading is enabled.
We use sensitivity analysis, walk-forward and holdout tests, plus checks such as deflated Sharpe and backtest-overfitting probability. Validity gates and risk review govern promotion; some quality thresholds allow reviewed exceptions. These checks cannot guarantee future performance.
Backtests use configured venue fees and models for fills and applicable financing and margin costs. Review the data coverage and assumptions with the report: historical simulations cannot reproduce every live execution condition.
The research pipeline supports crypto futures, spot, options, equities and prediction markets. Instruments, history and paper-trading support vary by venue. Check the Data and market pages for coverage before choosing a strategy.
A prepaid unit of platform usage that meters the AI compute your research consumes. Free plans include a monthly allowance; paid plans include more and never-expiring packs are available.
Yes. You can create a free account without a payment card. The free plan includes a monthly credit allowance, concurrent research capacity and a paper-trading slot. The pricing page lists the current allowances and the options for upgrading.
You can browse public market pages, published strategies and marketplace listings. Read the available reports and evidence before starting your own research. Workspace actions and access to strategy code depend on sign-in, ownership and the applicable access rules.
No. A run may need several revisions or be abandoned after checks or review. Credits meter the AI work performed, so a run can consume credits even if it never reaches paper trading. The useful output may be evidence that an idea should not be pursued.
The monthly allowance resets each cycle rather than accumulating. Purchased credit packs do not expire and are spent after the monthly allowance. Credits are separate from concurrent-run limits and paper slots; adding a pack does not change those plan limits.
Source-code access depends on ownership and the strategy’s sharing or marketplace rules. An available public report does not necessarily include unrestricted code access. Review the access offered for the particular strategy before subscribing to or using it.
There is no fixed completion time. Data requirements, simulation work, agent availability, revisions and reviews all affect the duration. Follow the run’s stage and history in your workspace; starting a run does not guarantee a strategy will be approved.
The AI analyst and AI risk reviewer examine these checks alongside the strategy report. Validity failures block promotion; quality findings feed into their assessment, including any documented exceptions.
Checks for performance inflated by repeated trials. Deflated Sharpe accounts for trial count and return characteristics.
Checks for parameters tuned to the past. Fit in-sample, scored out-of-sample across rolling windows — decay shows up immediately.
Checks for overfitting to the whole dataset. A final untouched slice is tested exactly once — no second chances, no peeking.
Checks for fragile parameter choices. Sensitivity sweeps show how nearby settings change performance for review.
Checks for returns too small to cover modeled trading costs. Cost checks are evaluated with the other promotion evidence.
Checks for in-sample flattery. If out-of-sample performance falls too far below in-sample, the result is treated as noise.
Create your first strategy run on the free plan. Follow the AI agents through code, tests, revisions and review, then monitor strategies admitted to paper trading.
Stratmill is an AI trading strategy platform, not financial advice or a broker. Backtest and paper results are hypothetical and not indicative of future performance. Figures shown are illustrative. Trading involves substantial risk of loss.