Marketplace — buyer's guide

The marketplace is where third-party authors sell strategies that have cleared our paper-test gauntlet. Every listing carries the real paper-trade metrics, not the author's marketing screenshots.

How to browse

Open App → Marketplace. Filters on the left let you narrow by:

• Asset class (perpetuals, spot, options)
• Regime (trend, mean-reversion, volatility)
• Min Sharpe / max drawdown (we default to Sharpe ≥ 1.0, drawdown ≤ −25%)
• Price (one-time vs monthly)

Each card shows the 30/90/180-day equity curve from our internal paper run (not the author's numbers — ours) and a live badge if the strategy is still trading.

The paper-test gauntlet

Before any listing goes public, the author's strategy runs on our servers for at least 21 days against the live market feed. Listings that don't hit these gates are rejected:

• At least 80 paper trades in the window
• Sharpe ≥ 1.0 on the portfolio-weighted equity curve
• Max drawdown ≤ −25% on rolling 14-day window
• No more than 3 consecutive losing weeks

You still need to do your own due-diligence — a backtested gauntlet is not a guarantee. But it filters the most obvious overfitting.

How payment works

Clicking Buy creates an escrow invoice. Your payment sits in escrow until one of three conditions:

• Auto-release — 14 days after purchase if you haven't raised a dispute, we release to the author.
• Manual release — you hit Release funds early because the strategy is working as advertised.
• Dispute — you hit Open dispute within 14 days; see Escrow explained.

After release, the strategy clones into your account and starts in paper mode. You can promote it to live from the Bots page (whale tier only).

What you get

• The full parameter set, so you can tweak it
• Real-time alerts when the author pushes an update
• Access to the author's private changelog and (for some listings) a seller-only Telegram room

What you don't get is the proprietary signal logic — that runs on our side and streams fills to your bot.