Profiles & Following

Public profiles connect an Astral identity to published strategies and indicators. They are optional and separate from your private account profile, saved library, broker connections, and billing information.

Create or edit a public profile

Open Profile from the app menu. A public profile includes a unique handle, display name, and optional bio. After creation, its public route is /u/your-handle; edit it from /u/me/edit or the profile controls.

Your profile can show follower and following counts, published-strategy and published-indicator counts, and aggregate activity derived from public items. Private saved work does not appear merely because you created a profile.

Publications

Publishing from Explore associates the item with your public identity. Profile publication tabs list your public strategies and indicators and link back to their Explore detail pages.

Removing a bookmark or private saved copy is not the same as unpublishing. Review the action label and confirmation whenever you change a public item.

Follow people and use the following feed

Signed-in users can follow or unfollow public profiles. The Following area in Explore shows published strategy activity from profiles you follow. Following does not copy, save, deploy, or endorse a strategy.

Privacy boundaries

Build a useful public identity

A clear profile helps readers evaluate context without implying credentials or performance guarantees. Use a stable display name, a short bio describing the markets or methods you explore, and publications that you are prepared to explain. Avoid claims that a strategy is safe, guaranteed, or appropriate for every account.

Published counts describe activity, not quality. Follower counts do not establish expertise, and aggregate performance displayed from public items can depend on different dates, assumptions, or execution modes.

What followers receive

Following changes discovery: it adds eligible public activity to the Following feed. It does not subscribe the follower to live signals, send their account orders, grant access to private revisions, or update a copied strategy when the author changes the original.

To use someone’s work, a follower must still inspect it, copy or save it where supported, test it, and choose an execution mode through their own account.

Publication lifecycle

Before publishing, check the title, description, symbols, timeframe, code or expression, historical period, metrics, and preview. After publishing, open the public route as a reader would. If you later revise a private copy, confirm whether the publication points to a new snapshot or still reflects the earlier version.

Unpublishing, deleting a private record, removing a bookmark, and stopping a deployment are separate actions. Do not assume one operation cleans up the others.

Community safety

• Do not publish account numbers, broker messages, API credentials, private research, or personal contact details.
• Treat comments as public and avoid sharing information you would not put on the profile itself.
• Report product or security issues through Help rather than embedding sensitive reproduction details in a comment.
• Re-run research and backtests yourself before relying on another user’s assumptions.