Built for prop firm traders

Your strategy
doesn’t tilt.
You do.

Design a prop-firm strategy in plain English. Prove the rules before your eval, then carry them into funded trading on autopilot or with a live journal.

Build it in plain EnglishBacktest and forward-testCombine pass-odds simulatorAutopilot or live journaling

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TopStepLucid

Trademarks belong to their owners. Neither firm sponsors, endorses, or approves Runbook. Each sets its own automation rules, so check your account agreement before you connect.

Founder note

“I described my exact strategy to Runbook, backtested it, and let it run. I passed my $50k Topstep account in six days.”

Brandon Suarez · Co-founder & funded trader

Founder experience · individual result, not typical

AI strategist

Build a strategy by talking to it

Describe how you trade in plain English. Runbook drafts the rules, turns them into testable rules, then simulates them across historical market data, including slippage and commissions. You review every rule before anything can move toward deployment.

This isn’t a chatbot that writes code and wishes you luck. The Strategist works with live market data, charts, a real backtester, and your run logs. Backtest, forward-test, and risk checks stay between the draft and your broker connection.

  • Plain English in, a running strategy out
  • Backtested with slippage and commissions
  • Catches what your eye would miss
  • Review, forward-test, then choose when to deploy
Try the strategist
Runbook Strategist
online
Ask the strategist…

Use anything

Your strategy can use anything. Even AI.

Pull live news. Score sentiment. Let a model weigh in before a trade. You describe what it should do, in plain words.

IndicatorsLive newsSentimentAI modelsYour own data
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Strategy rule AI-assisted

When NQ prints an oversold RSI, ask Claudewhether today’s headlines back a long before entering.

NQRisk 0.5%Stop: range low

BACKTEST · FORWARD-TEST · PASS-ODDS

Prove it before you risk your eval

A strategy that backtests well and falls apart live is worse than no strategy. Runbook makes you earn confidence in three steps.

01

Backtest

History · fills · costs

Years of history in seconds. Return, Sharpe, drawdown, and every simulated fill, with configured slippage and commission assumptions modeled in.

02

Forward-test

Paper · live data

Paper-trade live market data until the backtest and reality agree. The step most platforms skip, and the one that catches the overfit.

03

Combine pass-odds

10,000 simulated paths

Bootstrap your backtest into 10,000 Monte Carlo paths against an end-of-day trailing loss limit and profit target. A number, not a vibe.

Workflow labels are representative; simulation results vary

$50K Combine · Monte Carlo10,000 paths
Challenge equity paths pass breach
profit target · +$3,000trailing DD · −$2,000
73%pass

Median days to pass

14

Breach rate

19%

Median terminal P&L

+$3,240

Ran out of days

8%

Strong signal. 73% of paths hit the target without breaching.

Illustrative demo, not past results

Run · after proof

Carry the same rules from eval to funded

Keep the strategy and risk controls you proved. Run them automatically, or trade manually while Runbook measures your execution against the plan.

Mode 01 · Autopilot

Step away from the screen

Your reviewed strategy runs 24/5 with hard risk limits enforced.

  • Runs the exact code you proved out
  • Daily loss, drawdown, and size limits enforced
  • Halts and pages you the moment anything drifts
Mode 02 · Journal

Trade it yourself, graded live

You trade manually while Runbook grades every fill against your own rules.

  • Real-time alerts for tilt and revenge trades
  • Your strategy runs in parallel as a forward test
  • End-of-session report: you vs. your strategy

You vs. your strategy

Your codified strategy runs alongside you all session. The gap between your fills and perfect execution is your edge leak, measured for the first time.

Session · Today09:30 – 16:00 ET
Strategy
You
Your P&L
+$120.00
Strategy P&L
+$350.00
Adherence
67%

Illustrative demo, not past results

Illustrative platform scale
Strategies Deployed50+
Total Trades8,000+
Total P&L$125k+
Capital Deployed$1.3M+
Free · no card · 60 seconds

Already trading? Analyze your fills.

Upload a closed-trade CSV to find recurring setups, execution leaks, and the rules that may be worth testing next. This is a secondary path—you can also start with a new idea.

Drop your trade history CSV here

Export a closed-trade history from TopstepX, Tradovate, NinjaTrader, or TradingView. Max 8 MB.

Anonymous files are deleted once they are older than 7 days unless you claim them by signing up.

Read-only. We never trade for you, and your data stays private.

Safety

Control stays with you

Runbook can submit orders through your connected account. It cannot withdraw or transfer your funds.

We never touch your funds

Your capital stays in your own funded account. Credentials are AES-256 encrypted; we can place trades, never move money.

Halt-first safety

If our view of your account ever drifts from your broker's, the engine stops every strategy and pages you on the spot.

Sandboxed runtime

Strategy code runs in isolation with hard timeouts, rate limits, and no access to the filesystem, our database, or anyone else's state.

Want the full version with code references? Read the engineering log →

Pricing

Start free. Scale when it works.

Start building for free

No credit card required. Includes 5 lifetime Strategist sessions and 10 lifetime backtests. The seven-day paper clock starts after your first successful paper run.

Start Free
Tier 01

Starter

Run and journal a focused strategy set.

$29/MO

or $24/mo billed annually

  • 5 concurrent strategies
  • 15 AI Strategist sessions / mo
  • Live broker execution
  • Journal mode

Capital: $75K TopstepX

Get Starter
Recommended
Tier 02

Pro

More capacity and automated oversight.

$59/MO

or $49/mo billed annually

  • 20 concurrent strategies
  • 40 AI Strategist sessions / mo
  • Unlimited Journal sessions
  • AI health monitoring and weekly briefings
  • On-demand post-mortems and code audits

Capital: $150K TopstepX

Get Pro
Tier 03

Expert

Maximum capacity and dedicated support.

$99/MO

or $82/mo billed annually

  • 50 concurrent strategies
  • 100 AI Strategist sessions / mo
  • Unlimited Journal sessions
  • AI health monitoring and weekly briefings
  • Automatic critical post-mortems
  • Dedicated support

Capital: $500K TopstepX

Go Expert

FREQUENTLY ASKED

Questions

Stop guessing. Start measuring.

Build it out of anything, prove it before you risk a dollar, then let it run.

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