About AlphaFind
We looked for this platform
for over fifteen years.
It doesn't exist.
Some platforms have great charting. Others have serious validation tooling. A few can generate strategies automatically. We couldn't find one that put it all together in a single application — with GPU-accelerated backtesting at the core. So we built it. For independent traders, smaller funds, and the growing community of quantitative traders who are tired of stitching tools together.
The market
Every platform does one thing well. No one does it all.
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Institutional Terminals
$12,000 — $24,000+ / yr
Enterprise data and analytics terminals. Premium market data with limited strategy tooling.
- ? Automated walk-forward analysisUnverified. Some terminals offer Python scripting environments.
- ? Automated Monte Carlo simulationUnverified. Some terminals offer Python scripting environments.
- ✗ Structured scientific research toolingNo automated research workflow. Manual processes only.
- ✗ AI / no-code strategy creationAvailable scripting environments require Python. No AI or no-code options.
- ? Local high-speed backtestingBasic single-instrument TA backtesting available. Scripting environments not performance-optimized.
- ✓ Professional chartingProfessional-grade charting included.
- ✗ GPU-rendered charts & graphsServer-side or basic client rendering. Not GPU-accelerated.
- ✓ Live executionDirect market access via integrated execution systems.
- ? Runs locally / privateTerminal installs locally but requires persistent network connection.
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Trading & Strategy Platforms
Free — $2,900
Dozens of retail and prosumer platforms. Strong individual capabilities, significant gaps between them.
- ? Automated walk-forward analysisA handful of platforms offer walk-forward tools. Automation level varies.
- ? Automated Monte Carlo simulationA handful of platforms offer Monte Carlo tools. Automation level varies.
- ✗ Structured scientific research toolingNo platform automates holdout hiding, research journaling, or results analysis.
- ? AI / no-code strategy creationSome offer no-code builders or brute-force generation. No confirmed LLM assistance.
- ? Local high-speed backtestingSome run fast local CPU engines. Others are cloud-only. Speed and locality vary widely.
- ✓ Professional chartingOne platform leads the industry. Most include charting of varying quality.
- ✗ GPU-rendered charts & graphsBrowser-based or CPU-rendered. GPU chart rendering is not standard in this category.
- ✓ Live executionMany platforms support direct broker integration and live execution.
- ✓ Runs locally / privateSeveral platforms run fully locally. Most are cloud or hybrid.
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AlphaFind
One native desktop application. Multiple data vendors, survivorship-bias-free history, or bring your own. Everything below, integrated from the ground up.
- ✓ Automated walk-forward analysisBuilt-in. 5-stage gauntlet: walk-forward, K-Fold CV, combinatorial purged cross-validation (CPCV), Monte Carlo, plus Bayesian, NSGA-II, CMA-ES, and 9 other optimization methods.
- ✓ Automated Monte Carlo simulationBuilt-in. Bootstrap resampling and permutation testing with configurable confidence intervals.
- ✓ Structured scientific research toolingAutomated holdout hiding, research journaling, statistical overfitting detection, and AI-summarized results analysis.
- ✓ AI / no-code strategy creationGilbert: describe in English, get working code. Visual builder in live sync.
- ✓ Local high-speed backtestingC/CUDA/Metal on your hardware. Up to 50,000 single-instrument backtests per second peak. Scales with strategy complexity.
- ✓ Professional charting70+ drawing tools, 150+ indicators, 21 chart types, 16 panels per workspace.
- ✓ GPU-rendered charts & graphsCUDA and Metal. Hardware-accelerated rendering across all panels, reports, and graphs.
- ✓ Live executionDirect Interactive Brokers integration. Same workspace as research.
- ✓ Runs locally / privateAll computation runs locally. No cloud dependency, no data collection, no metered compute. Network used only for market data feeds.
✓ Full support? Unverified✗ Not available
The team
Practitioners, not observers.
No one on this team is building tools for a market they haven't traded in. Every feature decision is made by people who have lived inside these systems.
15+yrs trading
Founder · Strategy & Product
Quantitative Trader
& Platform Architect
& Platform Architect
Over fifteen years of active quantitative trading across forex, equities, systematic trading, and long-term value strategies. Led teams building institutional-grade quant engines and data science infrastructure. Spent a career on both sides of the problem: trading strategies and building the systems that run them.
ForexUS EquitiesSystematic StrategiesValue InvestingQuant Engine Design
30+yrs exp.
Principal & HPC Engineering
High-Performance
Systems Engineers
Systems Engineers
Principal and HPC engineers with careers spanning three decades of building performance-critical financial systems. The kind of engineers who treat milliseconds as a design constraint, not an afterthought. Responsible for the core compute and rendering infrastructure.
HPCGPU ComputeSystems ArchitectureFinancial Infrastructure
15+yrs quant
Quantitative Research & Data Science
Quant Scientists
& Data Engineers
& Data Engineers
Research scientists and data engineers with deep specialization in quantitative finance. Signal research, strategy validation, financial data pipelines, and time-series processing at scale. The intellectual core and the data quality layer — everything upstream of your screen.
Statistical ModelingFactor ResearchData PipelinesTime-Series
15+yrs exp.
Product & Design Engineering
Product Designers
& UI Engineers
& UI Engineers
The team responsible for making a platform this dense actually usable. Workspace layout, panel systems, charting interaction, GPU-rendered UI, and the hundreds of small decisions that separate a powerful engine from a product people want to use every day.
Design SystemsWorkspace UXGPU RenderingInteraction Design
We're building this now.
AlphaFind is in active development. Join the founders list to follow progress and get early access when we're ready.