Who Stretus is for
Stretus is narrow on purpose. It is built for people who trade rules, and the further you are from that, the less of it will be useful.
It fits you well if
You have a repeatable rule and no way to run it
The most common case. You know what you want to trade and when, you have been doing it manually, and the reason it is not systematic is that systematising it meant learning to code.
What you get: the rule, running, with limits you set and a backtest telling you what it did historically.
Where to start: Your first strategy in 10 minutes.
You trade systematically and are tired of the plumbing
You can write the strategy. What you would rather not maintain is broker adapters, order state machines, reconnection handling, position reconciliation and a risk layer.
What you get: twenty-plus broker and exchange adapters, a nine-gate risk pipeline, idempotent order handling, paper and live isolation, and a signal ingress if you want to keep generating signals yourself.
Where to start: Remote / blackbox strategies if you want to keep your own signal logic, or Strategy anatomy if you want to express it in the platform.
You are learning systematic trading properly
The valuable thing here is not the AI. It is a backtester that charges you STT, stamp duty, exchange transaction charges, the SEBI turnover fee, GST and modelled slippage, and a builder that explains why each piece of the strategy is present.
What you get: results that are not flattering, and a system that refuses to let you express a rule ambiguously.
Where to start: Reading results honestly, then Fees & charges.
You are a SEBI-registered Research Analyst
Publishing equity strategies for others to run requires the Research Analyst role, verified against documents rather than claimed on a form.
What you get: a documented onboarding pipeline and a publishing route.
Where to start: Research Analyst programme.
You want to look before you commit anything
Building, backtesting and paper trading require no broker connection. You can evaluate the entire platform without connecting an account or risking a rupee.
It fits you poorly if
Being honest about this saves you time.
You want to be told what to buy
Stretus will not do it. Asking gets you a documented refusal, not a tip. There is a dedicated code path for exactly that request. The research screens report measured conditions and publish their arithmetic; they do not rank instruments by attractiveness. See What the AI will not do.
You want someone to manage your money
There is no managed offering. No pooled account, no discretionary mandate, no advisory relationship. Every strategy runs on rules you authored or adopted, with capital you allocated. See What Stretus is not.
You want to mirror another trader's positions
There is no mechanism for it. Deploying a community-published strategy clones the rule set into your account; the two strategies are then unrelated. See Community & strategy sharing.
Your edge is discretionary
If your decisions depend on judgement in the moment (reading a news flow, feeling out a tape) a rules engine cannot express it. Stretus can only run what can be stated as a rule.
You need live derivatives today
Futures and options can be built, backtested and paper-traded. Live derivative entry is refused by the platform because the live exit path is not implemented. See Derivatives.
You need retail forex
Out of scope. See Regulatory position.
What you need to bring
| Requirement | Detail |
|---|---|
| A Google account | Sign-in is Google OAuth. No separate password |
| An invite code | During the current invited-access phase |
| A rule you can state | The one genuine prerequisite |
| A broker or exchange account | Only for live trading. Paper needs nothing |
| Willingness to read the risk page | Seven of nine risk gates are off until you set them. This is not optional reading |
You do not need: coding ability, a server, market data subscriptions, or any capital to evaluate the platform.
What the platform expects of you
Stated so it is not a surprise later:
- You read the assembled strategy before you accept it. A strategy you skimmed is a strategy you authored anyway.
- You set your risk limits. Most of them do nothing until you do.
- You size the allocation to a drawdown you can sit through, not to the return you want.
- You monitor what you deploy. A deployed strategy is not unattended infrastructure.
Full list: Your responsibilities.