Question 1

Do I need to know how to code?

Accepted Answer

No. Describe the strategy in plain English and the AI writes the full file, compiles it, and fixes its own errors until it runs. Every #[param] in the file becomes a control in the UI — range minutes, stop distance, risk-reward — so you tune and re-run without ever opening the code. When you do want to read or edit it, it’s a real file that’s yours.

Question 2

What data do backtests actually run on?

Accepted Answer

Licensed CME market data: 16 years of tick history across 29 CME markets, plus L2 order-book depth. Fills are simulated at tick level — and with book-walk fills when you want to know whether your size actually gets filled at the touch — not approximated from minute bars.

Question 3

Can I connect my MetaTrader 5 account?

Accepted Answer

Yes, if it is at a supported broker or prop firm: Moneta Markets (our featured partner), FP Trading, Ultima Markets or IQ Capital (CFD challenge accounts). Connect it from Accounts, demo or live, on any plan: 1 account on Free, 1 on Charts, 2 on Starter, 3 on Pro, 5 on Elite and 10 on Ultra. You don’t need a VPS or a Windows machine. No account yet? The connect screen links to each sign-up page. Demo accounts are free at the brokers; IQ Capital accounts come from its CFD challenges. Roboquant may receive a commission when you open an account through these links.

Question 4

What data do MT5 charts and backtests use?

Accepted Answer

Your broker’s own data for the account you connected: its streaming quotes and its bar and tick history. Bar backtests go up to 20 years back where your broker has the history. Tick backtests and optimizations cover up to 2 years. Missing history loads as part of the run. Tick runs replay the broker’s ticks and show a tick-quality score; a minute with missing ticks is generated from its 1-minute bar. MT5 data is shown only to you, and CME futures keep using licensed CME data.

Question 5

Demo or live, and which plan do I need?

Accepted Answer

Both account types work for charts, backtests, optimizations and bots. A bot on a demo account trades the broker’s practice money; a bot on a live account trades real money in that account, so test on demo first. Connecting and charting work on any plan. Tick backtests start on Starter. Bots run on Pro, Elite and Ultra and use the plan’s bot slots, the same as for CME, and optimization limits follow your plan (see Pricing). Charts and backtests need only the read-only investor password; bots need the trading password.

Question 6

Does Roboquant hold my money, and who sees my data?

Accepted Answer

No. Your money stays in your account at the broker, and you deposit and withdraw with the broker. Roboquant is not a broker: it shows you your account’s data and sends orders only for bots you deploy. Passwords are stored encrypted, and the account’s data is visible only to you and deleted when you disconnect.

Question 7

Which brokers can I connect?

Accepted Answer

Tradovate, Topstep and MetaTrader 5. Backtests, optimizations and charts on CME markets always use Roboquant's licensed CME market data, whichever broker you trade through; your broker only receives the orders.

Question 8

How does the optimizer avoid overfitting?

Accepted Answer

Five modes — exhaustive grid, bayesian search, genetic (CMA-ES), walk-forward and rolling walk-forward — fan out across up to 64 cloud workers. Out-of-sample windows, overfit detection and parameter-stability views make sure the winning trial is an edge, not a coincidence.

Question 9

What if my strategy doesn’t hold up?

Accepted Answer

Then you found out in a few minutes instead of over a blown prop challenge or months of live trading — which is most of the point. Plenty of strategies look good in-sample and fall apart out-of-sample; the platform is built to show you that early, and to show you why: which parameter was fragile, which session was carrying the P&L, where the fills were unrealistic. Often that diagnosis is what turns an idea that didn’t work into one that does. We can’t promise your strategy will be profitable, and nobody honestly can — what we can do is make being wrong cheap and fast.

Question 10

What happens when I deploy a bot?

Accepted Answer

It gets its own security-sandboxed container with kernel-level isolation, running 24/7 whether your laptop is open or not. Every decision, order and fill is logged per bot, and you can edit a running bot’s parameters without wiping its history.

Question 11

Which AI models can I use?

Accepted Answer

Roboquant AI is included and runs on plan credits — tuned for strategy code, tool calls and long research loops. You can also switch to Claude, GPT or Gemini per conversation, set thinking effort from none to extra-high per message, or bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic or OpenRouter keys and pay your provider directly. Keys stay encrypted.

Question 12

Can I automate my TradingView strategies?

Accepted Answer

Yes, on Tradovate, with Roboquant Connect — a separate product at connect.roboquant.dev. Point your TradingView alerts at your Connect webhook and it places the orders on your connected Tradovate accounts, with a kill switch, daily trade and loss limits, and an allowed-symbols list in the middle. That includes prop-firm accounts issued on Tradovate, but check your firm’s own rules on automation and third-party hosting before you connect one, because they differ and some prohibit it.

Question 13

What does RoboCharts include?

Accepted Answer

A charting terminal on CME market data: up to 16 linked charts (2 on Free), time & sales, footprint, volume profile, the order book (Book, Delta, DOM) to full depth and a liquidity heatmap, your own indicators (the AI writes them in .rq), bar-by-bar replay, and a strategy tester on the chart itself, with trades, P&L and your bot’s drawings inline. Free shows charts 20 minutes delayed; every paid plan, from Charts at $29.90 a month, is real-time for eligible non-professional users. Live heatmaps at once: Charts 2, Starter and Pro 4, Elite and Ultra 16 with full scroll-back.

Question 14

What is Degen Mode?

Accepted Answer

Manual trading inside RoboCharts. Switch it on to send market, limit and stop orders in one click on your connected demo broker accounts, with draggable order lines, take profit and stop loss, break-even and saved groups that trade several accounts at once. Demo accounts include prop-firm evaluation and funded accounts, where a loss can cost real money or the account. Check your firm’s rules first. Accounts opened directly with your broker for live trading are not supported yet. Every paid plan includes it: Charts and Starter connect 5 demo accounts; Pro and Elite 10 accounts; Ultra 20 accounts. Degen Mode trades demo accounts only for now.

Question 15

What is the Charts plan?

Accepted Answer

Our plan for traders who trade by hand, at $29.90 a month: real-time CME charts with time & sales, footprint and the order book to full depth, 2 live heatmaps at once, up to 16 linked charts, indicators with no plan limit, Degen Mode for one-click manual orders on demo accounts and 5,000 AI credits a month. Demo accounts include prop-firm evaluation and funded accounts, where a loss can cost real money or the account. Backtests and optimizations stay at the Free level, and it does not include bots or Roboquant Connect. Monthly billing only for now.

Question 16

Can RoboCharts replace TradingView for me?

Accepted Answer

If you trade CME markets and want the order book, footprint and full depth on real-time data, it can. TradingView covers far more markets and has alerts, Pine Script, community scripts and social features that RoboCharts does not, so many traders use both.

Peak	Trough	Recovered	Depth	Decline	Recovery	Underwater
08 Feb 202209:29	24 May 202210:27	12 Oct 202210:45	−19.68%	104d 23h	141d	246d
06 Nov 202009:35	05 Feb 202110:05	26 Apr 202110:10	−14.16%	91d	79d 23h	170d 23h
01 Nov 202410:33	12 Dec 202409:28	19 Feb 202511:07	−11.49%	40d 23h	69d 1h	110d 1h
29 May 202312:17	11 Jul 202310:52	14 Sept 202311:26	−9.23%	42d 22h	65d	107d 23h
28 Sept 202111:41	02 Nov 202111:51	26 Nov 202111:26	−7.87%	35d	24d	59d

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year total
2020	-	-	-	-	+0.0	+0.0	+4.1	+6.2	+0.0	+8.2	-3.4	+0.0	+40.3
2021	-6.3	+0.0	+1.1	+9.5	+10.1	+0.0	+11.4	+2.1	+0.0	-4.8	+5.7	+0.0	+99.1
2022	+4.0	+0.0	-3.1	+1.2	-2.2	+0.0	-1.1	+6.7	+0.0	+12.6	+0.8	+0.0	+33.2
2023	+1.7	+0.0	+9.7	-0.5	+6.4	+0.0	+7.1	-3.2	+0.0	-4.2	+9.5	+0.0	+64.4
2024	+8.4	+7.6	+0.0	+10.4	-1.5	+0.0	+0.8	+8.0	+0.0	+3.1	-4.4	+0.0	+85.8
2025	+3.9	+6.5	+0.0	+2.1	+14.1	+0.0	+7.3	-2.5	+0.0	+4.8	+3.4	+0.0	+134.1
2026	+2.2	+5.6	+0.0	+7.3	+0.0	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+22.3

Period	Net P&L	Trades	Win rate	Avg / trade
2026 75 trades · 46.7% wins Avg / trade +$801.15	+$60,086.00	75	46.7%	+$801.15
2025 213 trades · 50.7% wins Avg / trade +$690.51	+$147,078.00	213	50.7%	+$690.51
2024 213 trades · 50.7% wins Avg / trade +$273.91	+$58,343.00	213	50.7%	+$273.91
2023 212 trades · 42.5% wins Avg / trade +$88.24	+$18,706.00	212	42.5%	+$88.24
2022 212 trades · 44.8% wins Avg / trade +$65.04	+$13,789.00	212	44.8%	+$65.04
2021 214 trades · 50.9% wins Avg / trade +$63.21	+$13,527.00	214	50.9%	+$63.21
2020 125 trades · 47.2% wins Avg / trade +$32.13	+$4,016.00	125	47.2%	+$32.13

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