If the product cannot explain itself, it is not finished.
These answers will evolve with the build, but the core principles should stay stable.
What is Tradinator?
A private-first trading research, automation and independent risk-control platform. It is currently being built and validated rather than sold as a finished product.
Is the Live Lab supposed to prove future profits?
No. It is a development scoreboard used to compare strategy behavior, R-multiples, drawdown, filters, risk profiles and time-to-target. It is evidence for tuning, not a promise of future results.
Why not make paper/demo/live the headline?
The main research screens focus on the decision and result. Execution environment remains part of the underlying audit trail so the evidence stays honest without distracting from strategy analysis.
Does Tradinator replace MT4 or MT5?
No. MetaTrader is an execution/data connector. Tradinator sits above it as the decision, risk, analytics and orchestration layer.
Can TradingView feed Tradinator?
Yes. The architecture supports TradingView alerts/webhooks as candidate strategy inputs, while Tradinator applies its own account and risk checks before execution.
Will it support multiple brokers and accounts?
That is part of the roadmap. The central model already separates terminal/account identity from strategy and challenge logic so multiple connectors can be added later.
What happens if a strategy tries to increase lot size too aggressively?
The independent risk governor can reject abnormal size jumps, excessive exposure, daily loss violations, stale signals and other account-level conditions regardless of strategy confidence.
When will Tradinator be sold?
No fixed launch date is being promised. The current plan is several months of testing, optimization, product design and reliability work before deciding what is ready for outside users.
Will there be a mobile app?
The web app is being built as an installable PWA so it can live on desktop and phone without waiting for an app-store release.
Will there be AI features?
Yes, but AI is intended to analyze and explain evidence - trade history, failure modes, strategy versions and recurring patterns - rather than bypass deterministic risk controls.
Still building the answer?
The docs, changelog and roadmap are intentionally public inside the development site so unclear areas are easy to identify and improve.