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Independent traders and solo founders

Your strategy, in code you own, on your own account

Fixed-scope builds for experienced independent traders and solo founders. A strategy you have already defined, turned into code on MT5, cTrader, TradingView or Python, tested on clean data and watched by a dashboard that shows what it did. You bring the rules. We build them, test them and hand over the code.

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Who it is for

Built for independent traders and solo founders

Experienced independent traders

Traders with a defined, rules-based approach who want it automated, tested on clean data and monitored, rather than run by hand.

Small trading companies

One to four people trading their own capital through a company, who need tools their platform does not offer.

Solo founders

Founders building a first trading or fintech product who need a working version, the market data behind it and the right charting library from day one.

What you get

Features for both sides of the screen

01

What we build

  • Strategy to codeYour written rules as an MT5 expert advisor, a cTrader cBot, a TradingView Pine Script strategy or a Python service.
  • Backtests on clean dataTick or bar data checked for gaps, session times and spreads, with costs included, so a test shows how the rules actually behaved.
  • Dashboards and journalsPositions, fills, drawdown and rule breaches in one place, built from your broker's data.
  • Automation with brakesBroker API connections with position limits, a daily loss stop and a kill switch you control.

02

What we never do

  • Design or choose your strategyThe rules are yours. We question whether they can be tested, not whether they are good trades.
  • Promise returnsA backtest describes the past under stated assumptions. We never present one as an expected return.
  • Hold trading accessThe system runs on your account and your infrastructure. We test on demo accounts or with read-only access.
  • Sell signalsWe do not build products that send trade calls to other people.

How it works

From written rules to running code

Every project follows the same short path, so you know the scope and the cost before any code is written.
  1. 1

    Written spec

    Your rules, instruments, sessions and limits, written down and agreed before we quote.

  2. 2

    Fixed quote

    One price for the agreed scope. Changes are quoted separately, never added quietly.

  3. 3

    Weekly releases

    Working code on a demo account every week, with the test results beside it.

  4. 4

    Handover

    The source code, a short runbook and a final test report. The code is yours.

Before you commission a build

The questions we ask every independent trader

Most of the value is in these answers. If a project fails them, we say so before you pay for anything.
Are the rules written down?
If two developers would code the same rule two different ways, it needs pinning down first.
Is the data good enough?
A backtest on bars with missing sessions and no spread tells you very little.
What stops it?
A daily loss limit, a position cap and a kill switch, set by you and enforced outside the strategy code.
Who runs it?
You do, on your account and your own server or cloud. We hand over everything needed to do that.

Why AlchmAI

Why trading firms choose a specialist

Bank-grade engineering

The team behind a 100m-tick surveillance chart.

Fixed scope, fixed quote

You know the cost before we start.

Clean data first

Gaps, sessions and spreads checked.

Limits built in

Loss stop and kill switch as standard.

Your code

Source and runbook handed over.

Straight answers

We say when a rule cannot be tested.

Case study, global investment bank, trading floor

A charting engine for trade surveillance: hundreds of millions of ticks a day, views down to the nanosecond

If a bank's surveillance desk can chart every tick of a session in a browser, a broker's clients can have charts that do not stutter, lose drawings or disagree with the statement. The same engineering applies, at a fraction of the data volume.

Read the case

100m+

ticks a day rendered per instrument view

ns

finest zoom level on the time axis

70%+

less routine compliance monitoring work

How we engage

Fixed scope, fixed quote, your code

Projects for independent traders are smaller than a broker build, so they skip the Platform Review. We agree a written spec, quote one price, release weekly and hand over the code. Solo founders with a larger product build start with the Platform Review instead.

  1. 1. Week 1

    Spec and quote

    Your rules, instruments and limits agreed in writing, with one fixed price for that scope.

  2. 2. Every week after

    Build and test

    A release on a demo account each week, with its test results.

  3. 3. Handover

    Code and runbook

    Source code, a runbook and a final test report. You run it, on your account.

Fixed-scope projects above a minimum size. We prefer to contract with your trading company where you have one. Nothing we build tells you what to trade, and we never present a backtest as an expected return.

Questions

Independent traders and solo founders: common questions

Can you make my strategy profitable?

No, and nobody honest can promise that. We turn rules you have defined into tested code and show how they behaved on historical data under stated assumptions. Whether to trade them is your decision.

Do you need access to my trading account?

No. We build and test on demo accounts or with read-only access. The live system runs on your account, under your control.

Will you run the system for me?

No. Operating trades on someone else's account can be a regulated activity, and we are a technology company. We hand over the code and a runbook so you run it yourself.

Which platforms do you work with?

MT5, cTrader and TradingView, plus broker REST, WebSocket and FIX APIs from Python or TypeScript. Tell us your broker and we will confirm what its API allows.

Do you work with individuals or only companies?

Both. Where you trade through a company, we contract with the company. If you contract as an individual, consumer terms apply and the proposal sets them out.

Is there a minimum project size?

Yes. We take fixed-scope projects above a minimum size, quoted once the spec is agreed. For a single indicator we are not the cheapest option, and we will say so.

Related

Often built alongside

FIX and broker API integration

Order entry, market data and drop copy over FIX, plus REST and WebSocket broker APIs.

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Market data infrastructure

Feed handling, tick storage, aggregation, replay and distribution, monitored end to end.

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AI agents for trading teams

Narrow agents with fixed tools, limits, approval queues and a kill switch.

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Send us your rules, written down.

A 30-minute call is enough to tell whether they can be coded and tested as they stand, and what a fixed quote would cover.

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