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Learn Astral.

Clear guides for the terminal, strategies, backtests, broker connections, and account settings.

What Astral Is

Astral is an AI-assisted trading workstation for researching markets, expressing rule-based ideas, inspecting them on charts, testing them on historical data, and monitoring or deploying the results. It is software—not a brokerage, custodian, exchange, or source of personalized investment advice.

The product at a glance

Terminal

Use chat, charts, generated strategy code, backtests, alerts, watchlists, portfolio panels, and order tools in one session-based workspace.

Dashboard

Arrange monitoring widgets for charts, account statistics, positions, notifications, watchlists, strategies, broker connections, and news.

Explore

Discover public strategies and indicators, follow creators, maintain a saved public library, publish work, and open items in Terminal.

Broker and paper execution

Simulate eligible strategies with Astral Paper or connect supported broker accounts for portfolio data, manual orders, and eligible automated deployments.

The core workflow

  1. Research

    Ask a market question, inspect price and supported datasets, or begin with an idea from Explore.

  2. Build

    Describe the assets, timeframe, entry, exit, sizing, and risk logic. Astral turns the request into inspectable strategy rules.

  3. Inspect

    Read the code, use charts and indicators, and ask follow-up questions until the behavior matches your intent.

  4. Backtest

    Run the rules over historical data and review metrics, equity, orders, analysis, and bar replay.

  5. Save or publish

    Keep work privately in your library or explicitly publish it to Explore and your public profile.

  6. Operate

    Use alerts, Astral Paper, manual broker orders, or an eligible connected deployment. Each mode has different risk and access requirements.

Important boundaries

  • Generated code and explanations require your review.
  • Backtests and paper activity are simulations and do not guarantee live results.
  • Live orders remain subject to broker rules, permissions, market conditions, and fills.
  • The broker is authoritative for balances, positions, executions, fees, and restrictions.
  • Saving, publishing, paper deployment, broker deployment, and manual trading are separate actions.

Who Astral is for

Astral is designed for users who want to express market ideas as explicit rules and inspect the evidence behind them. It can help a discretionary trader structure research, a systematic trader iterate on strategy specifications, or a curious user learn how assumptions change a historical result.

It is not a substitute for understanding the strategy, the data, the broker account, or the risk of loss. Users remain responsible for deciding whether to save, share, simulate, or operate anything the product generates.

How the main surfaces work together

Terminal is where work is created and revised. Explore is where selected public work is discovered and discussed. Dashboard is where ongoing strategy, account, and notification state is monitored. Settings controls identity, subscription, delivery profiles, and connections.

The same strategy can appear in several places without those views becoming the same record. A public snapshot, a private copy, a historical backtest, and an active paper deployment can all share a name while describing different versions and data sources.

Read Core Concepts before comparing those states.

What Astral can help answer

  • What exact rule am I proposing?
  • Which data and timeframe does it use?
  • How did it behave over a selected historical period?
  • Which trades and market regimes drove the result?
  • How does a revision compare when the inputs remain constant?
  • What signals or account events need monitoring now?
  • Is the displayed state historical, simulated, application-level, or broker-reported?

Astral cannot answer whether a strategy will be profitable in the future, whether an order is suitable for a particular person, or whether a broker will fill an order at a simulated price.

A first-week learning path

  1. Complete the Quickstart with a simple daily strategy.
  2. Read the generated logic and the Strategy Reference.
  3. Use Backtesting & Replay to inspect more than total return.
  4. Observe the strategy in Astral Paper.
  5. Explore charts, datasets, alerts, and Dashboard monitoring.
  6. Read Broker Connectivity and Manual Trading before connecting capital.
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