Strategies from the AI Strategy Finder

The AI Strategy Finder searches years of market data for trading strategies and shows you how each one did in its backtest. When you buy a trading strategy there, you can deploy it to Trade Builder, and Trade Builder trades it for you with the same rules.

You do not type the rules again. Press Deploy on the strategy page in the Finder, follow the link, and Trade Builder’s New Strategy page opens with every condition, exit and timing already filled in. You only choose the name, the broker account and Forward Testing or Live.

The card is marked Runs as backtested (AI Strategy Finder). That means Trade Builder follows the backtest’s own rules for when to check the conditions, how to measure the stop and when to enter again — not the usual Trade Builder defaults.

It suits you if you found a strategy in the Finder you want to run every day without watching the screen, and you would rather not rebuild a dozen conditions by hand and risk a typing mistake.

It does not suit you if you want to change the rules a lot. You can edit the card after it is created, but then it is no longer the strategy that was backtested, and its past results no longer describe it.

It is not a promise of profit. A backtest shows what the rules did in the past. The market can behave differently from tomorrow onwards.

Four things, in this order:

• A trading strategy you have bought in the AI Strategy Finder. Investing strategies cannot be deployed, and straddles / strangles that enter at a fixed time deploy to TradeBots (see Straddles and strangles from the AI Strategy Finder). Straddles / strangles that enter or exit on a signal from the index deploy here: both legs go in together or not at all, one position at a time, and each leg’s stop, target and trail, the stop or target on the whole premium, and the stop when the index moves too far from the entry act on the live prices, as backtested. On a strategy you have not bought, the Deploy button is greyed out and says Buy this strategy to deploy it.
• Trade Builder on the same Bluechip Algos account — Platinum, or a Trade Builder plan. Without it you can still open the strategy and read every setting, but not save it.
• At least one broker account connected in Trade Apps, so there is somewhere to place the orders.
• Margin for what the strategy trades. An index strategy trades one lot of the index future (65 for NIFTY), which needs far more margin than one option — the Deploy screen says about Rs 1.5–2 lakh per lot.

1. Open the strategy in the AI Strategy Finder and press Deploy. The Deploy to TradeBuilder screen lists every part of the strategy under Carries over exactly, Works a little differently (with what is different) or Not deployable yet.

2. Press Open in TradeBuilder. Trade Builder opens in a new tab, and the Finder shows your private code, like SG-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX. The code works for 30 days, and it belongs to the first Trade Builder account that uses it — nobody else can load your strategy with it. Simpler still: copy the strategy's ID (10 digits, shown in the Deploy window, for example 9692 007 348) and paste it into Import from AI Strategy Finder on Trade Builder's New Strategy page — it works only in the same Bluechip Algos account that bought the strategy.

3. In the new tab: if your account includes Trade Builder, you are already logged in — the link logs you in once, within 60 seconds (accounts with two-step login, and admin accounts, log in themselves). If it does not, the page opens without logging you in, with the strategy filled in so you can read it; Create Strategy then says what is needed, with Log in and See plans links. That view works for 24 hours.

4. The New Strategy page opens already filled in, with a green note at the top: Loaded … from the AI Strategy Finder — set to run as backtested. Choose the Strategy Name, the Broker Accounts and Forward Testing or Live Trading. The strategy’s own exits show greyed out in each leg’s stop loss and target boxes — the strategy handles them (see Exits below), so leave those boxes empty unless you want an extra stop of your own.

5. Read through the cards, then press Create Strategy.

You can also paste the code by hand: open New Strategy in Trade Builder and paste it into the Import from AI Strategy Finder box. Up to 20 different strategies can be imported in an hour; importing the same one again does not count. Below the box, a link opens the AI Strategy Finder if you have not tried it yet — it uses the same Bluechip Algos login.

Start in Forward Testing for a few days. It runs the same rules without sending real orders, so you can compare what it does with the backtest before you risk money.

A normal Trade Builder card checks its conditions on the smallest timeframe it uses. A deployed card works the way the backtest did:

• Its own timeframe. Both the entry and the exit conditions are checked on every close of the strategy’s timeframe — for example every 15m candle — shown as Evaluate on.
• Finished candles only. A rule on a higher timeframe, such as the 1h close inside a 15m strategy, reads the last 1h candle that had finished when the 15m candle started. It never peeks at a candle that is still forming.
• Exit first, then entry. On every candle the exits are settled before a new entry is considered.
• No re-entry on the exit candle. If the strategy’s exit rule closes your trade on a candle, the same candle does not open a new one — the backtest filled that exit at the next open and only looked for entries from there.
• The last candle of the day acts next morning. For a positional (overnight) strategy, a signal on the day’s last candle (15:15–15:30) is acted on at the next session’s open, which is where the backtest filled it.
• Day and time come from the candle. Rules like time of day or trading days to expiry read the candle’s own time, not the clock when the check runs.

Most AI Strategy Finder strategies trade the index itself in the backtest. You cannot buy an index, so Trade Builder trades the current-month index future, 1 lot — it moves almost point for point with the index. For NIFTY, one lot is 65, so a 100-point move is about Rs 6,500.

A future stops trading on its monthly expiry day. So, on that day: a new entry takes the next month’s future, and a position you are already holding is rolled at 15:00 — closed in the expiring month and opened again in the next month. It is still the same trade: its stop, its trailing stop and its candle count carry over.

A roll costs a little: two extra orders, with their brokerage and the small difference between the two months’ prices. If the strategy is paused on expiry day, the expiring position is closed and not reopened.

The Runs as backtested box on the card holds the strategy’s exits. They work alongside the leg’s own stop loss and target, if you add any.

On the index (index strategies): stop, target, trailing stop and trail to cost, each in points, % of the entry price or × ATR (ATR fixed at entry). They are checked on the live index price. The entry price is the index at the minute the trade went in. Exit after N candles closes the trade at the close of its Nth candle.

On the option premium (strategies the Finder built to trade options): the same four, in % of your entry fill or × the option’s own ATR. Like the index exits, the stop and the target act on the live option price — the moment it crosses the level, the exit goes out at market. The trailing stop and trail to cost move once a minute, from that minute’s best price. The backtest fills these levels where the minute’s high or low touched them. On the contract’s expiry day the position is closed at 15:28.

An index strategy buys NIFTY with a 0.5 % index stop and a 1 % index target. The trade goes in when the index is at 24,180.

Stop: 24,180 × 0.5 % = 120.90 points, so the stop is 24,180 − 120.90 = 24,059.10.

Target: 24,180 × 1 % = 241.80 points, so the target is 24,180 + 241.80 = 24,421.80.

The order is 1 lot of the NIFTY future (65). If the index falls to 24,059.10, the trade closes, and the loss is about 65 × 120.90 = Rs 7,858.50 before costs.

Now an option strategy that bought an option at Rs 100 with a 10 % premium stop: the stop is Rs 90. The option trades at Rs 93, then Rs 91, then Rs 89.95 — that crosses Rs 90, so the exit goes out at market at once, even if the minute later closes back at Rs 92.

A strategy that trades both ways arrives as two cards, Long and Short, with Opposite signal reverses ticked. Only one side is ever open.

When the Long trade is open and only the Short signal fires, Trade Builder first closes the Long trade, waits until it is really closed, and then enters Short. If the Long exit does not fill, the Short trade is not entered and you get an alert.

If both sides signal on the same candle while you are out of the market, nothing is entered. If both signal while you are in a trade, the trade is kept.

AI Strategy Finder strategies use two kinds of rule that are new in the condition builder. You can read and edit them like any other rule.

Day / time — values of the candle itself: time of day (in minutes since midnight, so 09:30 is 570 and 14:30 is 870), weekday (1 = Monday … 5 = Friday), today’s open, today’s high so far, today’s low so far, and trading days to the nearest or the monthly expiry (0 on the expiry day).

Market data — the put-call OI ratio, the ATM IV and the options volume of the nearest expiry’s strikes around ATM (ATM and 10 strikes on each side), the futures OI, the futures basis (futures price − index), the ATM straddle price (ATM call + ATM put) and India VIX. They are sampled every minute. A candle for which this data is missing counts as not true — the rule does not guess. A rule can also compare one of these with its own highest, lowest or average over the last N candles (up to 300) — for example India VIX is within 5 % of its lowest of the last 300 candles.

Carries over exactly — Trade Builder does the same thing the backtest did.

Works a little differently — close, but not identical, and the screen says how. The common ones:

• Fill at the signal bar’s close: the backtest entered at the candle’s closing price; a live order can only go in a few seconds after the close.
• Entries per day: capped at 20 in Trade Builder; the backtest had no cap.
• Futures roll: the backtest traded the index, which never expires; live, the future is rolled on expiry day.
• Not deployable yet — the strategy uses something Trade Builder cannot run. Today that is the smart-money (SMC) rules. Open in TradeBuilder stays switched off for such a strategy.

It cannot make live results equal the backtest. Real orders pay brokerage and taxes and fill a little away from the price the backtest used. Expect some difference, more on fast days.

It cannot trade without its data. A strategy with Market data rules needs the minute-by-minute option data; if that feed stops, those rules are simply false and the strategy does not enter. A rule over a range of market values needs that much history: Trade Builder keeps the last 75 days.

It cannot deploy a strategy you have not bought, or an investing strategy.

It does not stop you from editing the card. If you change a rule, the card keeps running your version — it is then your strategy, not the backtested one.

The problems people actually hit, in the order worth checking:

• Deploy is greyed out or missing. The strategy is not bought yet (greyed out: Buy this strategy to deploy it), or it is an investing strategy.
• “This deploy code has expired.” Codes last 30 days. Open the strategy in the Finder and press Deploy again for a new one.
• “This deploy code was already used by another TradeBuilder account.” A code belongs to the first account that loads it. Log in to that account, or get a new code. “This strategy is not bought on your account.” The strategy ID works only in the account that bought the strategy — log in with that account, or buy it in the Finder.
• “This strategy is no longer bought.” The purchase was refunded or removed. Buy it again to deploy it.
• Create Strategy says “To save this strategy, log in with an account that has TradeBuilder.” The page opened without logging you in — you were not logged in, or your account does not include Trade Builder. Press Log in and use the account that has it, or See plans to add Trade Builder.
• “You imported 20 different strategies in the last hour.” Wait a little and try again; importing a strategy you already imported is never counted.
• No broker account to choose. Connect a broker in Trade Apps first, then reload the page — the code still works.
• It has not traded yet. Check that the strategy is not paused, that the candle’s time is inside the strategy’s window, and — for a positional strategy — that a last-candle signal is waiting for the next morning’s open.