Build a strategy. Let an AI bot run it on real market data with zero of your money. Keep what works, kill what doesn't, and learn what the brutal beginner's tax was supposed to teach you — without losing the rent.
Most new traders lose money before their first winning month — and most never find out why. That isn't a learning curve, it's tuition. Botfolio refuses to bill you for that lesson.
Six tools, one workspace. The same engine that runs your bot on a real Alpaca paper account is the engine that learns from every loss, flags strategy drift, and publishes every trade in the open ledger.
Sketch a strategy in plain language or drag-drop blocks. Crossovers, sentiment triggers, options spreads, news pivots — wired up in minutes, not weekends.
Auto-learns rules from every loss your bot takes. If the bot lost in low-VIX trending regimes, Bot Brain refuses the next trade that fits that pattern — without you writing a single line.
Replay your strategy on Polygon minute-bar history. Compare to SPY, to your last revision, to a coin flip. Slippage-adjusted returns show what real users actually got — not just the backtest claim.
Live 0–100 drift score per bot. If your strategy's behavior diverges from its backtest for 7 days, it auto-flags. The Mortality Report tells you exactly which regime broke it.
Browse strategies shipped by other Botfolio users — sorted by current market regime fit. Copy-trade with one click. Every listing carries its public loss ledger and confidence bands.
Per-bot Bayesian heatmap across VIX × market regime. Shows where your edge is real (with Wilson-score confidence bands) and where you're just sampling noise.
From "I have a thesis" to "I have a number" in under fifteen minutes. The numbers won't always be flattering. That's the entire point.
Type it in plain English or drag in indicators. Botfolio compiles it into a runnable bot.
Your bot trades real-time market on a synthetic Alpaca paper account. Real bid/ask fills, zero rent at risk. No rosy mid-price shortcuts.
Sharpe, drawdown, slippage, trade-by-trade why-it-fired logs. Yesterday's brag becomes today's evidence.
Winners earn a one-click switch from paper to your real Alpaca account. Losers archive. No falling in love with sunk effort.
Every Botfolio bot runs one of four strategy presets on a real Alpaca paper account. Build from a preset or wire your own in the Strategy Builder. No leaderboard hype — every claim is backed by the public trade ledger.
Drives an Alpaca paper account using your aggressiveness, risk tolerance, focus assets, and watchlist. Bot Brain learns from every loss and refuses to repeat the same losing setup in the same regime. Every decision is logged with reasoning.
Short-dated put credit spreads when IV rank justifies the carry. Backtest engine uses Polygon options chains with greeks; live legs route through your Alpaca paper account.
Buys calls when price clears resistance with volume confirmation. Honors VIX regime filters and sector rotation. The Combined preset stacks this with Credit Spreads inside one bot.
Botfolio isn't another backtester with a leaderboard. Eleven features below exist because survivorship bias, mock fills, and "trust me bro" stat sheets are the whole reason new traders blow up.
Slippage-adjusted returns. Every strategy listing shows the average return real users got — next to the backtest claim. Spread between the two is your edge tax.
Wilson-score confidence bands on every stat. "43% win rate ± 17%, n=28" — instead of pretending 28 trades is a verdict.
Reproducibility certificate per backtest — SHA-256 of the data + code that produced the number. Re-run it any time. No claims you can't audit.
Four tiers. No credit card to start. No "schedule a demo." Cancel from inside the app — no email gauntlet.
Build, backtest, and paper-trade — no credit card required.
Up to 3 paper bots with the full AI strategy builder and unlimited backtests.
Unlock live trading on your Alpaca account, marketplace publishing, and priority support.
For serious traders who want priority queue, more bots, and white-glove support.
Your worst trade should cost you a story, not a savings account. Spin up your first bot in four minutes. Watch it lose paper money for a quarter. Become the trader the brokerages didn't want you to be.
