Platform overview
The platform in one page: the pillars, how they connect, and where the boundaries between them sit.
Four pillars
| Pillar | What it does | What it hands to the next pillar |
|---|---|---|
| Discover | Six research screens scan for defined technical conditions and publish the arithmetic: Radar, Universe Scanner, Trading Map, Cluster Density, Analog Events, Asset Explorer | An instrument and a condition. No order, and no position size |
| Build | The AI strategy compiler: router and extractor, then resolver, compiler and validator. It refuses rather than guessing | A formal strategy object |
| Validate | Backtest over real history with the full cost model. Metrics, a six-grade assessment, and every known limitation stated | Your decision |
| Execute | Capital allocation, then nine risk gates, then the paper simulator or your live broker. Two isolated paths, with monitoring, notifications and operator surfaces | A running strategy |
Alongside all four sits Community, where you publish a strategy or clone one someone else published.
Two cross-cutting concerns sit alongside all four: risk, which applies at build, validate and execute time; and compliance, which governs what every surface may say.
The systems behind them
Three codebases, each with a clear job.
The AI service
Turns language into strategies. What it contains:
| Component | Job |
|---|---|
| Router | Picks one tool per turn from 18, gated by conversation phase |
| Extractor | Reads the whole message for stated values, independent of routing |
| Resolver | Produces an Intent with provenance on every slot |
| Compiler | Turns an Intent into a formal strategy object, or into typed gaps |
| Validator | Fail-closed gate: seven check families against the live engine |
| Quant engine | Indicators, patterns, the simulator, the cost model, the assessment |
Details: AI engine.
The backend
Around thirty services. The ones a user's experience depends on:
| Service | Job |
|---|---|
| strategy | Strategy lifecycle, marketplace policy, target moves |
| order-execution | The risk pipeline, order placement, derivatives, reconciliation |
| broker-gateway / broker-bff | Broker adapters, risk controls, client risk monitor |
| marketdata-ingestion | Price data ingestion and storage |
| opportunity-radar | The discovery suite, scanners, detectors, analogs, heatmap |
| ref-data | Instruments, venues, calendars, broker adapter catalogue, entitlements |
| user | Identity, profiles, Research Analyst onboarding |
| remote-gateway | Signal ingress for external strategies, including Telegram |
| corporate-actions | Splits, dividends, mergers, symbol changes |
| custom-indicator | Alternative-data indicator catalogue and review |
| web3 | Optional strategy-ownership records |
The web application
Around fifty routes across forty feature modules, in seven locales. The surfaces you will use most: the AI chat, the strategy list, the backtest tabs, the deployment wizard, the live terminal, the dashboard, and the six discovery screens.
What flows where
A strategy's life
| Step | Artefact |
|---|---|
| 1 | A chat message |
| 2 | A strategy draft, yours and private |
| 3 | A backtest result, stored and addressable by its reference id |
| 4 | A deployment, in paper or live, with a capital allocation |
| 5 | Orders, which pass the risk gates, reach your broker, and return fills |
| 6 | Positions and P&L, derived from those fills |
| 7 | Optionally, a published listing others can clone |
Where capital sits
Never in Stretus. Your broker or exchange holds it throughout. The platform tracks an allocation per strategy, a ceiling it enforces, and reads your balance at the venue. See Capital model.
What crosses the paper/live boundary
Nothing. The two paths share a strategy definition and share nothing else: separate capital, separate positions, separate history, separate performance records. A position opened in one mode is never migrated to the other.
Markets and instruments
| Available today | Detail |
|---|---|
| Indian equity cash | NSE, BSE. Live requires per-strategy broker approval |
| Crypto spot | Multiple exchanges. Live is immediate once keys are valid |
| Futures & options | Build, backtest and paper only. Live entry is refused, see Derivatives |
| US equity | Seeded, pending activation |
| UK, NL, ES, AU, UAE equity | Venues and calendars exist; no instruments yet |
| Retail OTC forex | Out of scope. Adapter exists, picker disabled |
The instrument taxonomy is broader than what is reachable. It defines equity, index, crypto and FX families across cash, futures, options and perpetuals. Reachability depends on venue activation and your plan's entitlements.
Full picture: Markets and Instruments.
Brokers
The connect screen builds its list dynamically from reference data, so what you see reflects what is activated for your tenant rather than a fixed list. The platform carries order-placement adapters for more than twenty brokers and exchanges across Indian equity, US equity and crypto.
Full list with per-venue detail: Markets & brokers.
Entitlements
Capabilities are scoped by tenant and by plan: which asset classes you can trade, which venues you can reach, whether the community section is available, and which AI models serve your chats. A feature you cannot see may be a feature you are not entitled to rather than one that does not exist. See Plans & entitlements.
Where to go next
| You want to | Go to |
|---|---|
| Understand the lifecycle in detail | How Stretus works |
| Build something now | Your first strategy |
| Understand the AI | AI engine |
| Understand risk before deploying | How risk is enforced |
| Assess the compliance position | Regulatory position |
| Look up a term | Glossary |