What is StratCraft?
StratCraft is an open-source, local-first quantitative research operating system. Its Open Research Foundation supports local strategy work, while Commercial Quant Lab adds scaled research intelligence.
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Everything you need to know about StratCraft, AI-automated strategy discovery, and our institutional-grade infrastructure. Read first. Then explore the Evolution page or compare platforms head-to-head.
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How does the AI strategy generation work?
AI strategy generation requires a Basic free-forever account. A private Python service owns prompts and generation orchestration, then returns inspectable C++ to the desktop for local validation and backtesting.
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Read answer →Do I need to know C++ to use StratCraft?
No. Users can work through Guide WebUI, typed MCP tools, SDKs, examples, and imports. C++23 runs local validation and backtesting, and generated C++ strategies remain inspectable.
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Read answer →Platform & performance.
How is it different from TradingView or Pine Script?
StratCraft is a strategy discovery factory, while TradingView is a charting-first platform with limited single-asset scripting. We move beyond "indicators" into statistical signal composition across thousands of variants, running on local compiled code rather than browser-based scripts.
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Detail →Is it a cloud-based platform?
StratCraft is local-first, not local-only. Example, imported, and hand-written strategy workflows run locally. AI strategy generation is an explicit hosted service for Basic free-forever accounts.
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Detail →What is the "Signal Factory" model?
Traditional trading focuses on one "perfect" strategy. The Signal Factory model treats strategy generation as a manufacturing process: running hundreds or thousands of signals in parallel, statistically weighting them, and automatically rotating them based on performance. It is the core paradigm used by firms like Renaissance Technologies.
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Detail →Architecture & ecosystem.
Is StratCraft open source?
StratCraft is preparing an independently useful Open Research Foundation. Commercial Quant Lab is delivered separately. Modules are classified by capability, not by whether they are written in C++23, TypeScript, or Python.
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Detail →Where does StratCraft fit in the evolution of trading platforms?
StratCraft represents Generation 3.5 in the history of algorithmic trading infrastructure. The AI-Automated layer that sits above institutional platforms. Gen 1 was single-script indicators (MT4 era), Gen 2 introduced Python frameworks, Gen 3 brought cloud-scale institutional orchestration. Gen 3.5 is where AI writes the code and humans define the logic, enabling strategy discovery at exponential throughput. We cover this taxonomy in detail on our Evolution page.
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Detail →Educational reference. The answers above describe how StratCraft works today and the principles behind its design. They do not constitute investment advice and past backtest results do not guarantee future performance. Always validate strategies with walk-forward and out-of-sample testing before deploying capital.
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