Tradedesk runs mechanical crypto strategies — Dollar-Cost Averaging and Portfolio Rebalancing — via the Alpaca API. Every strategy starts in paper mode. A 12-guardrail safety chain checks every signal before an order is placed. Promotion to live trading requires a comprehension check, a PIN, and a mandatory 30-second countdown you cannot skip. The kill switch is always one click away.
Tradedesk is designed to slow you down before real money moves. Every step from strategy creation to live promotion requires deliberate action.
The dashboard gives you a live view of your trading system. A persistent kill switch bar at the top lets you halt all activity in one click from any screen. Six stat tiles show open strategies, active positions, today's realized P&L, unrealized P&L, daemon heartbeat age, and current stage. Below that, your strategy cards show each strategy's coin, schedule, current stage badge, and last signal. A recent activity log surfaces fill events, guardrail rejections, and stage transitions.
The strategies page lists every strategy with its current stage, running status, coin, schedule, and lifetime P&L. Pause and resume controls are available per strategy. Clicking a strategy opens its detail view — a full trade history, P&L chart, FIFO lot breakdown, guardrail event log, and the Promote to Stage 2 button (greyed out until all eligibility criteria are met). New strategies start in Stage 1 paper mode — no configuration can bypass this.
Promoting a strategy from Stage 1 (paper) to Stage 2 (live) requires completing an 8-step ceremony. You must pass a comprehension check with randomly selected questions about how your strategy type works. You must enter your trading PIN (bcrypt-hashed, 3-failure lockout). You must type the strategy name followed by LIVE to confirm. Finally, a 30-second countdown enforced server-side via HMAC token prevents impulsive promotion — the button cannot be clicked until the full 30 seconds elapses.
Every signal passes through a 12-step guardrail chain before an order reaches the broker. Any guardrail can veto the order — it does not proceed until the full chain passes. The guardrails page shows each check's current status, threshold, and last trigger event. You can adjust thresholds within safe ranges. The circuit breaker engages automatically after 15 rejections in 60 minutes and must be manually reset.
The inbox collects every system notification — fill confirmations, guardrail rejections, kill switch events, stage transitions, and daemon restart alerts. Notifications are routed by severity: kill/loss/restart events trigger SMS and email; WebSocket and drift events go to email only; routine guardrail and fill events stay in-app. Quiet hours are respected. An unread badge in the sidebar keeps count.
Every strategy begins in Stage 1 paper mode. No configuration, no override, and no shortcut can place a real order before the stage gate is passed. The gate is there to create time — time to observe, time to question, and time to change your mind before real capital is at risk.
Every signal generated by a strategy passes through a sequential guardrail chain. All 12 checks must pass. Any single failure vetoes the order — nothing is placed, the event is logged, and the circuit breaker's rejection counter increments. The chain runs identically in paper and live mode.
Tradedesk currently supports two strategy types. Both are fully mechanical — no AI, no prediction, no discretionary overrides. The daemon executes them on schedule and the guardrail chain handles the rest.
Tradedesk gives you structured strategies, safety guardrails, and a forced discipline that prevents impulsive decisions from reaching the market.
Start with a DCA strategy on paper. Watch it run for 30 days. Then decide if you trust it enough to promote.
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