Backtest and Launch a Futures Strategy in One Screen
Create Futures Strategy is a single screen in the GT App where you pick a starting point, set the trading rules, run a backtest on historical candles, and launch the result as a demo or a live bot. It went live on 31 August 2026. Nothing moves between tools any more.
Before this release, building and testing happened in one place and running happened in another. You designed a strategy on our backtesting site, then carried it across into the app to start it. Two surfaces, one intention. The new screen collapses that into three steps you complete without leaving the page, and the launch button sits directly under the test results you just looked at.
This is a product update, so the rest of this article is what changed, where to find it, and what each control does.
What exactly went live on 31 August?
The Create Futures Strategy screen is now part of the app for every account. It contains four things that previously lived apart: a set of AI-generated strategies you can start from, the full settings panel for a futures strategy, a backtest engine that runs against historical candles and draws the result on a price chart, and the activation step that turns the tested configuration into a working bot. The same screen serves both a demo launch and a live one, and it works on both venues we support, Binance and Hyperliquid. Accounts without an active plan reach the same screen in demo form, so building and testing a strategy no longer waits on a purchase. The standalone backtesting site is unchanged and still available on its own domain. What is new is that the same route now exists inside the app as well, from idea to running bot without a handoff.
How do the three steps work?
Step one: choose a starting point. The screen opens with a row of AI-generated strategies, each one a configuration produced by a different model and already backtested on a specific market. Selecting one loads its full parameter set into the panel below. You can also skip the row entirely and build from scratch.
Step two: set the rules and test them. This is the settings panel, grouped the way a strategy is actually assembled:
- Market Setup picks the venue, the trading pair, the timeframe and the direction, long or short.
- Trading Parameters covers position sizing and the take-profit target.
- DCA / Safety Orders turns averaging on, with the price deviation and the martingale ratio that govern each additional order.
- Stop Loss, Trailing Take Profit and Trend Changer are the exit rules, each switched on separately.
- Fees & Slippage lets you override the default trading costs, so a backtest can be run against pessimistic assumptions rather than ideal ones.
Every change re-runs the backtest against the window you selected.
Step three: activate. You pick the exchange, enter the capital the strategy should trade with, and the screen tells you how much of that capital the configuration will actually commit. Then you launch, in demo or for real.
What do the backtest results tell you?
The result block reports five numbers on the window you chose: profit and loss as a percentage, the same figure in USDT, the number of trades the configuration would have taken, the win rate, and the average result per trade. Below them, a candle chart of the market for that period.
Read those five together rather than one at a time. A high percentage over three trades says almost nothing about a strategy. The same percentage over two hundred trades with a stable average per trade is a different claim entirely, and the trade count is what separates them. Fees are the second thing to look at, which is why the fee override exists: a configuration that survives realistic costs is worth more than one tuned in a frictionless test.
One caution that belongs in every conversation about backtesting. A backtest describes how a set of rules would have behaved on candles that have already printed. It is a way to reject configurations that clearly do not work and to compare two ideas on the same history. It is not a forecast, and no result on this screen should be read as one.
What does Optimize do?
Optimize is a search, not a rewrite. It takes your capital, your order ladder and your window as fixed, then searches direction, take-profit and stop-loss on that timeframe for the best combination it can find. When it finds one, it writes those three values back into your settings and tells you what they scored. Your other parameters stay exactly as you left them.
When no profitable configuration exists for that pair and window, the screen says so plainly instead of quietly reporting success over unchanged settings. That answer is useful in itself: it points at the window, the timeframe or the market rather than at the take-profit level.
Demo or live: which launch should you pick?
Both buttons produce a strategy that runs on live market data. The difference is whose money moves.
| Launch Demo | Launch Real | |
|---|---|---|
| Capital at risk | None, paper trading | Your funds on the exchange |
| Exchange connection | Not required | Required, Binance or Hyperliquid |
| Active plan | Not required | Required |
| Market data | Live | Live |
| Where it appears | My Strategies, marked as demo | My Strategies |
| What it is good for | Watching the rules behave before committing | Running the tested configuration |
A live launch needs two things in place: an active plan and a connected exchange. If either is missing, the screen names the one that is missing and takes you to it, and your strategy is saved as a demo bot in the meantime rather than discarded.
What happens without an active plan?
You get the same screen in its demo form, titled Create Demo Strategy, and it now works from every entry point rather than only from the backtesting one. You can pick a starting point, open the full settings, run backtests as many times as you want and save the result as a demo bot. The whole build-and-test loop is open before any purchase. What stays behind the plan is the live launch.
Where do I find it?
The screen is reachable from four places in the app:
- The Create Futures Strategy button in My Strategies.
- The Create Demo Strategy button next to it, which opens the same screen in demo form.
- The onboarding checklist, at the step that asks you to create a strategy.
- The return path after connecting Binance or Hyperliquid, which brings you back to the strategy you were building.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to connect an exchange to try this?
No. Building a strategy, running backtests and launching in demo all work without any exchange connected. A connection is required only for a live launch.
Does the backtest spend any money?
No. A backtest replays historical candles against your rules. Nothing is sent to an exchange and no order is placed.
Can I still use the standalone backtesting site?
Yes. GT AI Backtest is unchanged and still available. The new screen is an addition, not a replacement, and strategies built on the site can still be carried into the app.
Which exchanges does this cover?
Binance and Hyperliquid. You choose the venue in Market Setup before testing, and the same choice carries into the activation step.
What does the screen mean by how much of my capital it needs?
A strategy with safety orders reserves capital for the additional orders it may place, not only for the first one. That figure is the total the configuration will commit at full extension, so you can size the position against what you are willing to have in the market.
Do backtest results predict what a strategy will earn?
No. They describe how a rule set would have behaved on past candles. Markets change, and past behaviour is not a forecast of future results. Use backtests to compare configurations and to discard the ones that fail, not to project returns.
Is a strategy from this screen a recommendation to trade?
No. GT Protocol provides software, not financial, investment, tax or legal advice, and does not act as your advisor. The AI-generated configurations are starting points you are free to change or ignore, every launch is your own decision, and trading futures with real capital can lose some or all of the funds you commit.
Where does my strategy go after I launch it?
Into My Strategies, where demo and live strategies sit together and demo ones are labelled. You can start, stop and edit it there.
Try it on one strategy
Open Create Futures Strategy in the app, take one of the AI-generated starting points, change a single parameter and watch the five result numbers move. That loop, which used to require two tools and a handoff, is now one screen.