A trading lab that shows its work.
NotBroke Lab turns trading ideas into tested strategies, one careful step at a time, and publishes every result as it happens. The failures too. No hype, no secret sauce: just the numbers, after costs.
Connecting to the lab…From an idea to real money, nothing skipped
Every strategy idea travels the same road. The lab moves it on only when a stage is done, and real money is never the lab's decision alone. The numbers show how many ideas are in each stage right now.
Safety first
Every order passes a separately tested safety kernel with hard limits per account and per strategy. If anything looks wrong, the lab stops and asks.
Honest tests
Ten years of real market data, costs included, delisted stocks included. The newest 20% of the data stays locked until the very end, so a strategy can't be tuned to it.
A human says yes
Paper trading and real money start only after a person has read the results and agreed. Every move is written down and can be traced.
Building in public
The lab is young. This is the honest state of it.
The lab core
Three trading accounts (paper money), the market clock and calendar, a guard that watches every account around the clock, the safety kernel, alerts on the phone.
Strategies and backtests
Strategies as portable packages. One engine for backtests and live trading, so a test means what it says. Ten years of minute data. The first strategy tested: an opening range breakout.
The lab's dashboard
A private control room: accounts, strategies, results, limits, the system's health, and one switch to halt everything.
From idea to strategy
Ideas arrive by message, e-mail or card, and AI researchers and builders take them through analysis, specification, code, tests and tuning. Each step is checked and costed.
The lab learns
Each strategy keeps a memory of its own trades: what worked, what slipped, what the market did differently from the test.
A desk for you
The same lab for other traders: your own desk, your own broker account, your own rules, and an open library of strategies with their full test reports.
Build log
- 28 OctThis page, with the lab's live numbers and the waitlist.
- 28 OctStrategy ideas can be sent by message, with pictures, files and links; each gets its own card on the board.
- 28 OctThe lab's dashboard goes live.
- 26 OctThe first strategy runs live, simulated, on real market data.
- 25 OctTen-year test of the opening range breakout: it fails after costs. Published below, as promised.
- 24 OctThe lab core starts: three accounts, the guard, the safety kernel.
What the strategies do right now
Each strategy that trades, in % of the money it may use. Finished days only, updated after the US market closes.
Simulated = live market data, trades only on paper inside the lab, no orders at a broker. Paper = real orders at the broker with play money. Real money = real orders, real money. They are always shown apart.
Every test, passed or failed
The latest backtest of each strategy, after trading costs, with the marks it has to pass before it may trade. Most ideas fail. That is what tests are for.
Backtests are simulations on past data. They are not results of real trading and they do not predict future results.
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