# Trado Strategy Lab > Trado Strategy Lab is an AI-first algo trading platform for crypto perpetual futures: describe a strategy in plain words, backtest it on years of 1-minute data for 900 Binance perpetuals after every cost, see where it works, paper-trade it, and bring your own AI over MCP. The site is waitlist-only until 1 November 2026, 00:00 IST. Every page below is also available as Markdown at the same path with a .md extension (the home is /index.md). The canonical HTML page is named in each file's front matter; cite that. Trading leveraged crypto derivatives can lose more than the margin; nothing here is investment advice. ## Overview - [Trado Strategy Lab: the AI-first algo trading platform](https://algo.trado.trade/index.md): Describe a strategy in plain words, backtest it on years of 1-minute data for 900 crypto perpetuals after every cost, see where it works, paper-trade it. - [Join the waitlist](https://algo.trado.trade/waitlist.md): Join the Trado Strategy Lab waitlist for 500 launch credits, early access by invitation and referral rewards. Launch: 1 November 2026, 00:00 IST. - [Pricing: pay for the work you run](https://algo.trado.trade/pricing.md): Building strategies is free. Backtests, optimizations, Copilot replies and deployments use credits, priced by the work, and you see the price before you run. ## Product - [Crypto backtesting after every cost](https://algo.trado.trade/backtesting.md): Backtest crypto perpetuals on years of 1-minute data for 900 coins, after fees, funding, slippage and liquidation, with a verdict that admits weak evidence. - [AI strategy builder, no code needed](https://algo.trado.trade/ai-strategy-builder.md): Describe a trading idea in plain words and the Copilot drafts the rules. Refine them in a form or on a canvas, or write Python. No code required. - [Paper trading for crypto strategies](https://algo.trado.trade/paper-trading.md): Take a backtested strategy to paper trading in one click. The same rules run on live Binance prices; going live is a separate step you approve. - [Leverage and liquidation guard](https://algo.trado.trade/liquidation-and-leverage.md): At 20×, a move of about 4.5% against you loses the whole margin. The Lab models liquidation, refuses stops past it, and audits the leverage each coin allowed. - [Algo trading for beginners](https://algo.trado.trade/for-beginners.md): Start algo trading without code or a data pipeline: describe an idea, backtest it honestly, ask the Copilot why, and paper-trade before you risk a rupee. - [Bring your own AI via MCP](https://algo.trado.trade/bring-your-own-ai.md): Connect Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT to Trado Strategy Lab over MCP. Your agent builds strategies, runs backtests and reads reports for free; runs use credits. ## Learn - [Learn algo trading, plainly](https://algo.trado.trade/learn.md): Plain-language guides to the eight things that trip up crypto algo traders: lying backtests, code, data, overfitting, going live, leverage, cost and who to ask. - [Why crypto backtests lie](https://algo.trado.trade/learn/why-backtests-lie.md): Look-ahead, missing costs, survivorship and ignored liquidation flatter backtests. A checklist to test any backtest, and how the Lab answers each point. - [Algo trading without code](https://algo.trado.trade/learn/algo-trading-without-code.md): Pine Script, Python and APIs keep good ideas untested. What real no-code algo trading looks like: plain words in, readable rules out, Python if you want it. - [Crypto data for backtesting](https://algo.trado.trade/learn/crypto-data-for-backtesting.md): Clean 1-minute crypto data is a project before it is a strategy. What good backtesting data needs, where DIY pipelines break, and what the Lab holds. - [Overfitting in backtests](https://algo.trado.trade/learn/overfitting-in-backtests.md): Tune a strategy long enough and the past looks perfect. Why overfitting feels like success, and the checks that expose it: holdouts, walk-forward, stability. - [From backtest to live trading](https://algo.trado.trade/learn/from-backtest-to-live.md): Why strategies break between a backtest and a live bot, and a sane path through paper trading. The Lab runs the same rules in both, so nothing is rewritten. - [Leverage and liquidation explained](https://algo.trado.trade/learn/leverage-and-liquidation-explained.md): At 20×, a move of about 4.5% against you wipes out the margin. How liquidation price works on crypto perpetuals, isolated versus cross, and what to check. - [What algo trading tools cost](https://algo.trado.trade/learn/what-algo-trading-tools-cost.md): Subscriptions for tools you use twice a month add up. What to look for in algo trading pricing, and how credits priced by the work compare. - [Learn algo trading with AI](https://algo.trado.trade/learn/learn-algo-trading-with-ai.md): Forums and videos cannot explain your own strategy; an AI that reads your actual runs can. What to ask, a learning loop, and where AI needs checking. ## Optional - [Full text of every page](https://algo.trado.trade/llms-full.txt): all of the pages above in one Markdown file. - [Sitemap](https://algo.trado.trade/sitemap.xml): every public HTML page with its last-modified date.