Asset, instrument & venue model
Stretus separates what you trade from where you trade it. An asset (e.g. ETH) is traded as an instrument (e.g. the ETH/USDT spot pair) on a venue (e.g. Binance Spot). This three-layer model lets the same execution engine handle equities, crypto, and future asset classes without special-casing each market.
Why the three layers matter more than they look
The same asset class can exist on many venues, and that is the whole reason venue is a separate layer rather than an attribute of the asset class. equity_cash is the asset class of an NSE listing and a Nasdaq one and a London one. Knowing the asset class tells you what kind of thing you are trading; it tells you nothing about which market, which currency, which session or which broker. And treating it as though it did is how a US order ends up described in Indian terms.
Supported today
Which markets exist, which broker reaches each one, what each settles and quotes in, and which are actually available: Markets & brokers.
| Asset class | Instruments |
|---|---|
| Equity cash | ~107 Indian stocks; a 100-instrument US universe pending activation |
| Crypto spot | ~104 pairs (BTC, ETH, SOL. .) |
The full list of supported symbols is visible in the strategy builder - the AI's asset-class selector shows every instrument Stretus can trade at the time you're creating a strategy.
Account-level access
Not every account has both asset classes enabled. Your account configuration controls what you can trade:
- An account with only equity enabled cannot create crypto strategies
- An account with only crypto enabled cannot create equity strategies
- Which venues you can reach follows from the asset classes you have and the brokers your tenant has enabled. A venue is reachable when some connected broker covers it, so enabling a broker is what opens a market. Not a per-market switch
- The AI validates your input against your enabled asset classes before accepting a strategy prompt - you'll see an inline error if you try to create a strategy for an asset class you don't have access to
Equity specifics
Which broker an equity strategy routes through depends on its venue, not on its asset class. See Markets & brokers. Indian equity routes via Upstox; US equity routes via Alpaca.
Going live on Indian equity additionally requires broker approval: Upstox reviews the strategy parameters before it can place real orders. That gate is a property of that jurisdiction's arrangement, not of equities in general.
Paper equity trades are simulated entirely within the platform. No broker connection is needed for paper, on any market.
Product types differ by market too. CNC, MIS and NRML are Indian broker products (delivery, intraday and carry-forward) and they mean nothing at Nasdaq, LSE, Euronext, BME, ASX, DFM or ADX. Orders on those venues carry a plain cash product instead.
Crypto specifics
Crypto strategies route via Binance or Bybit (spot market). You connect your exchange API keys under your profile. Going live routes orders directly to the exchange - there is no additional approval gate.
Crypto trades continuously (24/7). If you specify a trading window for a crypto strategy, the strategy only opens new positions during that window but monitors and closes existing positions at any time.