Question 1

Is TradeLayout an algo trading platform?

Accepted Answer

Yes. TradeLayout is a no-code algo trading platform built for Indian financial markets. Create trading strategies visually using a drag-and-drop strategy builder, backtest them against historical NSE market data, paper trade using live market data, and execute your strategies live through supported broker integrations.

Whether you trade intraday or use positional strategies, TradeLayout helps you design, test, refine, and automate your trading logic—all without writing code.

Connect your preferred supported broker and turn your trading ideas into automated strategies.

Question 2

How do I backtest an algo trading strategy before going live?

Accepted Answer

Build the strategy visually, pick a date range and run a backtest on historical market data. You get every trade, day-by-day P&L and the reason each entry and exit fired. Then paper trade it on live prices with no real money before enabling live orders.

Question 3

Do I need to know how to code?

Accepted Answer

No. Describe the idea in your own words and the AI builder writes the strategy for you — it asks about anything unclear, like stop loss, target, re-entry and square-off time, then places the nodes on the canvas. You can edit anything it builds, or build it yourself by connecting nodes (signals, conditions, entries, exits) on a canvas. Either way there is no code to write, and the AI builder costs no extra credits or money beyond your plan.

Question 4

Which brokers does TradeLayout support?

Accepted Answer

Zerodha, Angel One, Upstox, Fyers, Dhan and Alice Blue today, with 5paisa coming soon. For Zerodha, Angel One, Upstox, Fyers and Alice Blue you log in on the broker’s own page, so TradeLayout never sees your broker password. For Dhan you paste an access token from Dhan’s website.

Question 5

Can I test a strategy before risking real money?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Every strategy runs through the same three stages: backtest against historical data, paper trade on live markets with no real capital, then enable live execution only once you’re confident.

Question 6

Is my broker login stored safely?

Accepted Answer

We store your broker API key and the access token needed to place and track orders — never your broker password or PIN. Access tokens expire every day. You can delete a connection from Broker Connections at any time, or revoke the app from your broker’s own website.

Question 7

What happens if my broker connection drops mid-trade?

Accepted Answer

If the live price feed goes silent, TradeLayout reconnects automatically and alerts you. Until prices flow again, price-based stops cannot be checked — your open positions stay at the broker. When it resumes, the strategy carries on and checks the broker’s order book for any fill it missed, and tells you if it finds one.

Question 8

What markets and instruments can I trade?

Accepted Answer

Backtests cover NIFTY and BANKNIFTY options; NIFTY, BANKNIFTY, FINNIFTY and MIDCPNIFTY futures and index; and the futures and shares of 10 large-cap NSE stocks, with data from January 2024. Multi-leg options spreads are built as a single visual strategy. Paper and live trading can also use SENSEX and BANKEX options, which cannot be backtested yet.

Question 9

Is TradeLayout suitable for high-frequency or scalping strategies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Candles go from 1 minute up, but conditions can be evaluated on every tick — in paper and live trading, and in tick-level (per-second) backtests — with event-driven execution rather than polling. Re-entry rules and multi-leg adjustments are re-evaluated continuously, and orders route directly through your own broker API — so intraday scalping and high-frequency setups run on the same visual canvas as positional strategies. Order speed is still bounded by your broker's API and its rate limits — TradeLayout does not offer exchange co-location.

Question 10

Can I stop a running strategy instantly?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Every running strategy has a Stop button, and Stop All stops them all at once. You choose: square off all open positions with market orders and stop, or just stop and close the positions yourself in your broker app. It works from the TradeLayout app on your phone or computer.

Question 11

Can I build a strategy just by describing it?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Write the idea in your own words. The AI assistant asks about anything that is unclear — stop loss, target, re-entry, square-off time — and then builds the strategy on the canvas. You can see every part of it, change it yourself, and backtest it straight away.

Question 12

Do I still need to hire an algo programmer?

Accepted Answer

No. Freelance programmers often charge ₹30,000–₹50,000 to code one strategy, and more for every change. On TradeLayout you build and change strategies yourself, and they run live through your broker without a server of your own.

Question 13

Can one strategy use several indicators, timeframes and instruments?

Accepted Answer

Yes. A single strategy can combine many indicators in one signal (with AND / OR groups), read several timeframes — for example a 15-minute trend with a 1-minute entry — and watch several instruments, such as an index and its options, at the same time. You can also save your own variables and use them later in any signal.

Question 14

How is TradeLayout different from template-based algo platforms?

Accepted Answer

Template tools give you fixed boxes to fill — an entry time, a stop loss, a target. TradeLayout works more like a programming language: you connect building blocks in any order, so you can add re-entries, adjustments while in a trade, loops back to an earlier signal, alerts and your own variables. The same strategy then runs in backtest, paper trading and live trading.

Question 15

What does TradeLayout cost?

Accepted Answer

A free plan is available to build and backtest strategies. Pro adds more backtests, more paper and live strategy slots, and live execution, and new users can start Pro with an introductory price for the first month — see the pricing section above for current prices.

Aspect	Traditional Coding	TradeLayout
Learning curve	Weeks/months	None — the AI builds it for you
Building complex logic	Error-prone	Visual & intuitive
Debugging	Print statements	Visual flow tracing
Modifications	Rewrite & redeploy	Drag, connect, run
Testing	Manual scripting	Built-in simulation
Execution	Servers required	Zero infrastructure

No-code algo trading platform for NSE, BSE & MCXProgram Any Trading Strategy Visually — No Code Needed

Describe Your Strategy in Plain Words — the AI Builds It

Your personal algo developer

No developer fee per strategy

Runs live without your own server

Test it before you trust it

What is TradeLayout?

Visual Logic Nodes

Execution Connections

One Program, Multiple Modes

A Programming Language for Trading — Without the Code

Many indicators in one signal

Many timeframes together

Many instruments together

Your own variables

Re-entries and loops

Adjustments while in a trade

Intraday or positional

Tick-by-tick when you need it

From Hypothesis to Proof — Without Losing Money

Idea

Visual Logic

Historical Test

Paper Trade

Live Execution

Build Your Strategy Step by Step

Trading Hypothesis

How Trading Ideas Become Executable Programs

Build Any Logic You Can Imagine

Re-entry Logic

Multi-leg Options

Alerts on Entries and Exits

Also Built for High-Frequency Trading

For intraday traders

For high-frequency & scalpers

Sub-minute & tick-level timeframes

Event-driven execution

Per-tick re-entry & multi-leg logic

Broker-direct, zero infrastructure

Built for When Things Go Wrong

Why Visual Programming Beats Code

Frequently Asked Questions