Explore the cTrader Algo Strategy Builder, your key to a formidable trading tool. This dynamic cBot empowers traders to craft, test, and apply customised algorithmic trading strategies rooted in technical analysis and indicator-driven intelligence. With its intuitive interface and integrated risk management, this tool enables traders to devise and meticulously backtest strategies using historical market data effortlessly. There are currently 15 indicators added to this project.

Supported Indicators

Before you download this tool, look at the indicators that are currently included in the build, we will add more on each update.

• Supported Indicators

Read the User Guide

We recommend that you start by reading the user guide to help you understand the full potential of this tool and to help you start building your first automated trading system from scratch with no coding experience.

• Getting Started
• Trade Indicators
• Trade Rules
• Risk Management
• Trade Actions
• Review Strategy
• Generate Code
• Run Strategy
• Load & Save Strategies
• Backtest Strategies
• Optimise Strategies

Watch Video Demos

Watch a video demonstration of a multi-timeframe Relative Strength Index Strategy, complete with source code, with no coding experience.

• How to build a strategy
• How to export C# code
• How to optimise the cBot
• How to backtest the cBot

Choosing Indicators

We are currently in the process of adding new indicators each with other periods and timeframes, this allows you to use multi-timeframe indicators on your chart. This product has a limited number of options, so start by downloading a 14-day trial.

Trade Rules

The trade rules allow you to define the actions that will provide a bullish or bearish signal for opening trades or sending trade signals. Two types of rules can be applied to any combination of indicators.

1. Bullish/Bearish Signal: where an indicator is showing a bullish signal to trade based on its parameters.
2. Crossed Above/Below: where indicator #1 crosses above or below indicator #2, use mostly for moving averages.

You can have independent trade rules for bullish or bearish signals.

Risk Management

We provide some basic risk management with the strategy builder for the free beta version, these include stop loss and take profit protection, a max spread feature and for profit targets a trailing stop loss and break even feature.

Trade Actions

You can set various events using the trade actions window when there is a bullish or bearing signal, from automatically opening trades to sending email or Telegram trade alerts. Trades can close on opposite signals and pop-up windows will inform you of trade opportunities.

Review & Run Your Strategy

When you have completed building your automated trading system based on your strategy, review all trade rules before backtesting or starting the cBot to trade or send trade signals.

Generate Source Code

A unique feature of this tool is the ability to generate Microsoft C# source code and export it into cTrader Desktop to build cBots. This allows you to backtest, optimise and run your automated trading system.

• How to create code?

How to Backtest Your Strategy

The ability to backtest an automated trading system is important as this will show you how your strategy would have performed with historical data, although backtesting does not indicate how the system will perform with new data, it helps increase the probability of how it will perform.

• How to backtest

How to Optimise Your Strategy

Opt for the premium version to generate and export the complete source code for your developed strategy. This feature empowers you to construct a cBot using cTrader Automate (Algo) and leverage the optimisation tool to identify the most effective settings within a specified timeframe. Known as Optimisation or Recalibration, this process significantly enhances the likelihood of securing successful trades.

• How to optimise

How To Install & Remove

First, make sure you have the cTrader trading platform installed. Unzip the file, then double-click it to install it automatically on the platform.

• How to install
• How to open
• How to remove
• How to edit settings

Any Questions?

If you have any questions, please first search our product help forum for the answer, and if you cannot find it, post a new question.

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Need Coding Help?

If you need help creating your own customised automated trading system, contact our development team for a quote.