How Atlas Edge works
Four things happen, in this order, and none of them can be skipped.
- 01
Build
entry, exit, filter blocks
- 02
Preview
do the rules fire at all?
- 03
Rigor check
years of real data
- 04
Verdict
passed / rejected / undecided
Build
Compose a strategy from entry conditions, exit rules, and optional filters — a guided library of blocks, not a blank code editor. Every block has a plain-English description of what it does and why you might use it.
Preview
A quick preview (a few seconds) tells you whether your rules actually fire, and roughly how often, before you spend a full test on them.
Rigor check
Your strategy runs against years of real historical data through the atlas rigor harness — the same statistical harness used to validate the platform's own strategies:
- Out-of-sample testing — part of the history is held back and never used to build or tune the strategy, so there is always data it has not seen.
- Walk-forward validation — the strategy is rebuilt and retested across successive windows, checking the result survives forward in time rather than only in the window it was fitted to.
- Placebo controls — compared against random entries with the same risk, costs, and exits, to check your entry signal is actually doing the work.
- Multiple-testing penalty — the bar you need to clear rises the more variations have been tried, so trying enough things until one looks good doesn't count as finding an edge.
- Robustness analysis — concentration and dispersion checks make sure the result isn't being carried by one or two lucky trades.
- Rejected
- 18 / 20
- Passed
- 2 / 20
Two "winners" from pure luck. That is what a rigor check is for.
Verdict
One of four outcomes:
- PASSED — survived every check. Worth risking money on, not a guarantee of future profit.
- REJECTED — the evidence didn't hold up. This is the tool succeeding at its job, not failing.
- UNDECIDED — not enough evidence either way yet.
- PASSED ON PROXY DATA — passed, but on a data stand-in (e.g. an ETF proxying an index) rather than the real instrument. Capped below a full pass.
If it passes: arm it, or don't
For UK residents, a PASSED strategy will be armable for live automated trading through your own IG account — this is opening to a limited first group after launch, not available at signup yet. Building and backtesting above is live worldwide today, with no waitlist and no residency requirement. Nothing trades automatically until you take that step. You can disarm at any time.
An independent daily-loss circuit breaker sits underneath every armed strategy regardless of its own settings, and disarms it automatically if triggered.
Automated execution for UK accounts is in development and opening to a limited first group after launch. The backtest and strategy builder above are live worldwide right now.