From a trading idea to a backtested strategy in minutes.
Describe a strategy in plain language. W3Quant writes the code, backtests it on real market data, and shows you the numbers — Sharpe, drawdown and P&L — so you can decide what to trade.
Three steps from prompt to a strategy you can read.
The same workflow every time — no notebooks, no data wrangling, no boilerplate.
Describe the idea
Type a strategy in plain English — entry, exit and risk rules, or just the gist. The agent fills in the rest and asks if anything is ambiguous.
Generate & backtest
W3Quant writes runnable strategy code, then backtests it on real historical data and returns P&L, Sharpe, Calmar and max drawdown.
Review and refine
Read the equity curve and metrics, ask for an optimization pass, and iterate until the strategy clears your bar.
A weak strategy, pushed over the bar.
Backtesting tells you where a strategy stands. Optimization moves it. The agent reads the equity curve, finds what's dragging on returns, and re-tunes the rules — faster signals, tighter risk, a volatility filter — then re-runs to prove the gain.
- 01Diagnoses the weaknessWhipsaws, lookahead bias, oversized risk — the agent names what's holding the strategy back.
- 02Re-tunes & re-runsIt rewrites parameters and rules, then backtests again so every change is measured, not guessed.
- 03Clears your portfolio barA typical pass adds ~0.3 Sharpe target — often enough to take a strategy from "skip" to "trade".
Specialized for one job, and measured on it.
A general chatbot can draft code. It can't backtest it.
How a quant-specialized assistant compares to leading general-purpose models on the tasks that actually ship a strategy. All figures illustrative — for comparison, not a verified benchmark.
| Capability | W3Quant | GPT‑4o | Claude | Gemini |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Natural language → runnable strategy code | ||||
| Built-in backtesting on real market data | ||||
| AI optimization / Sharpe uplift | ||||
| One-click deploy to live trading | ||||
| Quant guardrails (lookahead-bias checks) | ||||
| Avg Sharpe of generated strategies | 1.92 | 0.61 | 0.74 | 0.58 |
Build your first strategy today.
Describe an idea, get the code and the backtest, and decide what's worth trading — in one session.