Separate the edge from the governor.
Strategy logic should decide whether a setup is interesting. Account protection should independently decide whether the trade is allowed. Tradinator is being built around that separation.
WHY TRADINATOR EXISTS
Because a winning bot can still blow up.
Tradinator started from a simple problem: a strategy can look brilliant while the surrounding execution, sizing, recovery logic or account protection quietly carries catastrophic risk.
Evidence before expansion.
MT4 first. One private owner. Months of testing. Add complexity only after the earlier layer is measurable and stable.
No mystery arrows
Signals should expose their component reasons and score, not just flash red or green.
No invisible risk
Lot jumps, correlation, stale data, duplicate events and drawdown need independent controls.
No fake certainty
Winning samples are evidence to investigate, not proof that future performance is guaranteed.
PRODUCT PRINCIPLES
Five rules for the next six months.
1
Preserve raw evidence
Never improve the story by deleting losing or rejected setups.
2
Measure before changing
Know the baseline before tuning a threshold or management rule.
3
Keep safety independent
A strategy cannot bypass account-level protection because it feels confident.
4
Make every decision explainable
The UI should show enough context to understand what the engine saw.
5
Earn automation
More autonomy comes after reliability evidence, not before it.
Tradinator is a long build on purpose.
The product and the trading system are being developed together so neither side gets polished around assumptions that later testing disproves.