Publishing your strategy
Publishing makes one of your strategies discoverable so other users can deploy it on their own accounts. This page covers who can publish, the checks, every field on the form, and what becomes public.
Publishing is immediate. Stretus evaluates the eligibility rules on the spot; pass and the listing is live, fail and you are told exactly which rule failed. No human assesses the strategy's merit.
Who can publish
| You are | You can publish |
|---|---|
| Any user | Crypto strategies |
| A verified SEBI-registered Research Analyst, or an administrator | Any strategy, including Indian equity |
You must always own the strategy. See Research Analyst programme
The Research Analyst gate is one of the configurable rules, and a master bypass switch can disable every configurable rule, including that one. Ownership is the only check that can never be turned off.
Earlier documentation said "Ownership and the RA gate are the checks you can always rely on." That was true of the intent and false of the code. If you are publishing an equity strategy, satisfy yourself independently that you hold the registration that permits it. See The bypass switch.
Eligibility checks
| Check | Default requirement | Disableable? |
|---|---|---|
| Ownership | You own the strategy | Never |
| Status gate | Deployed live | Yes |
| Minimum days live | 7 days | Yes |
| Minimum live return | ROI ≥ 5% native / 10% remote | Yes |
| Research Analyst gate | RA or admin for non-crypto | Yes |
A failing publish returns every unmet requirement with your current value and the requirement, "minimum days live: 3, required 7".
Some environments permit publishing from a paper deployment and source listing metrics from simulated performance. See Paper-sourced metrics.
The publish form
Earlier docs described publishing as "confirm and go", a four-click flow whose confirmation "explains that your entry/exit logic stays private."
It is a two-step form collecting seven inputs, one of which is the Open Strategy toggle that discloses your logic. The old description omitted every input, including the most consequential one.
Step 1
| Field | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Open Strategy, yes or no | Yes | A licence decision. See below |
| Description | Yes | What the strategy does |
| Subscription price | No | Displayed; not charged |
| Minimum capital | No | Enforced when a subscriber goes live |
Step 2
| Field | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Disclaimer | Optional, and it should not be | See below |
| Support email | Optional | Rendered publicly on the listing |
| Support phone | Optional | Rendered publicly on the listing |
Open Strategy: read this before you tick anything
The form asks: "Do you want to publish this as an Open Strategy?" and warns: "Choose carefully. This cannot be easily undone after subscribers join."
Its own warning body:
An Open Strategy shares your full strategy details with subscribers after they subscribe, including entry and exit conditions, indicator formulas, and parameter values. Only choose Yes if you are comfortable making your trading logic visible.
Earlier docs stated that "your exact entry/exit indicator formulas stay private" and that the publish confirmation "explains that your entry/exit logic stays private."
That is only true of a closed listing. Choosing Open Strategy discloses your logic. That is what the option is for. A publisher relying on the old text may have disclosed logic they intended to keep.
Choosing Open Strategy requires a recorded consent row carrying the legal document version you were shown, a hash of the exact prompt text you licensed, your IP and your user agent, precisely because it is the case that discloses your strategy to the community.
| Closed listing (default) | Open Strategy |
|---|---|
| Track record, risk profile, controls and instrument are public | All of that, plus your entry and exit conditions, indicator formulas and parameter values |
| Subscribers get a copy that reproduces the behaviour | Subscribers can read and change your exact formula |
| No consent record | Recorded consent: document version, prompt hash, IP, user agent |
| Reversible in effect | Copies already made cannot be recalled |
Full detail: Open vs closed listings.
The disclaimer field
Labelled optional. Backend validation checks length only, and an empty value is accepted.
A public listing where another person allocates real capital should carry a risk statement from the person who wrote the strategy. The form's own placeholder is a reasonable starting point:
Trading involves risk. Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Do better than the placeholder. State the market conditions the strategy assumes, the worst behaviour you have observed, and the fact that past performance does not indicate future results.
As a finding: rendering a platform-level standing disclaimer on every listing regardless of what the publisher wrote (so the publisher's field supplements rather than substitutes) is on the compliance roadmap. Until then, an empty field means a listing with no risk statement from its author.
Support contact fields
Optional, and rendered publicly on the listing. Users will contact you.
You may explain how the strategy works. You must not tell anyone whether to deploy it, with how much capital, or whether it suits them. See Publisher rules
Pricing
A subscription price above zero is displayed as a recurring price on the listing.
There is no charging code in the platform. The value is stored, rendered, and never collected. Listings are currently free to deploy.
Do not represent a priced listing as a paid service, and do not collect payment outside the platform, taking consideration for another person's securities strategy changes your own regulatory position. See Regulatory position.
Minimum capital
The minimum you require a subscriber to allocate. Enforced when they go live, not when they subscribe. The effective minimum is the larger of yours and the platform's US$50 floor.
After publishing
The strategy's name locks while it is listed, and it appears publicly immediately.
| Action | Where | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Unpublish | More actions, then Unpublish | Removes the listing. Existing copies keep running |
| View subscribers | Detail, then Subscribers | Who deployed it, allocation, P&L %, duration |
| Read reviews | Detail, then Reviews | Ratings and comments |
A subscriber's copy is a snapshot from the moment they deployed. Change the strategy and their copy does not change. So a silent change creates two different strategies with one name.
Unpublishing stops new deployments only. If a strategy should not be traded any more, say so. You cannot switch off someone else's copy, and neither can the platform.
Verified and featured
Some listings carry a Verified marker and appear in featured slots. This is platform curation, not self-serve.
Verified confirms identity and listing integrity. It is not an assessment of the strategy's merit or suitability. Featuring is editorial placement.
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- Open vs closed listings
- Strategy visibility
- Publisher responsibility
- Publisher rules, the full obligations