A connected workspace for market analysis, discretionary trading and automated strategies.Chart markets and manage trades. Create C# indicators and algorithms, test strategies with backtesting and optimisation, and keep portfolio risk in view.
MEET YOUR WORKSPACE
Keep market analysis, research and trading together. Arrange charts, screeners, orders, strategy results and risk tools around the way you work.
01AnalyseANALYSE & PREPARE
Read price action with multiple charts, different indicator types and drawing tools. Screen the broader market and save your chart templates.
Combine different indicator types, drawing tools and multiple timeframes. Bring historical trades into the chart and save the setup as a reusable template.
Compare a wider watchlist with sparklines and indicator columns at the timeframes you choose. Keep multiple outputs under a shared column group, then move from an interesting row into its chart.
Browse instruments by source, build reusable groups and bring the same market universe into charts, screeners and research. Keep the contract behind each symbol within reach.
Inspect contract sizing, pricing and local data coverage. Create custom instruments, manage reversible field overrides and define reusable trading hours with timezone and holiday context.
02TradeDISCRETIONARY & AUTOMATED
Place orders alongside your charts, or run your C# algorithms as automated strategies. Set position size, manage stop-loss and take-profit levels and keep every account in view.
Place an order in the context of your workspace and keep its status in view. Use the order ticket alongside charts and account tools.
Follow working orders, open positions and account activity alongside the market. Keep your market view, risk tools and saved workspaces within reach.
Choose a C# algorithm from your installed plugins, then set its symbols, timeframe, parameters and connections. Run one instance or a portfolio of independent instances, review every account before it starts, then follow each session's chart, positions and orders as it trades.
Stop reviews the strategy's exposure and lets you close at market first; stopping alone leaves broker positions open.
RUNNING AN AUTOMATED STRATEGY
Each start runs an account preflight and one review of every resolved account. A live account needs its own typed LIVE confirmation.
Read the guideFollow each session's state, account, symbol, positions, P&L and heartbeat. Feed health shows whether prices are live, quiet or recovering.
Read the guideSet daily-loss and gross-exposure limits, size protected entries to a fixed risk target and keep a kill switch within reach.
Read the guideAudit links strategy runs and trade events to the account ledger, alongside the orders, fills and deals your broker reported.
Read the guide03ResearchA MORE CONSIDERED PROCESS
Look beyond a single result. Move from a hypothesis to a backtest, explore the alternatives, and study how strategies fit together.
Run your strategy against historical data. Trace its equity and drawdown, inspect the individual trades and revisit the parameters behind the result.
Explore parameter ranges with grid, adaptive-grid or genetic search. Examine candidate results and sensitivity to understand how a strategy responds to change.
A strategy's place in a portfolio is a question of its own. Blend the daily-close returns of saved runs, explore allocations and inspect the risk behind the combined picture.
Run a backtest or optimisation on a configured worker, or spread batch research across a worker pool. Keep orchestration in Market Studio while the executors do the computing.
Each job runs on one executor. Remote machines use prepared, authenticated HTTPS connections with their own data and plugin storage.
Research informs decisions. Historical results do not guarantee future performance.
NEXT · 04 / C# PLUGINSYour code. Part of the platform.04C# pluginsC# AT THE CORE
Create custom indicators and trading algorithms with Market Studio's C# plugin SDK. Bring your logic into charts, screeners, research and automated strategies.
Build the calculations you want to see and the rules you want to test. Develop against the SDK, load your plugins and keep the workflow inside Market Studio.
Read the plugin guide
public PluginIndicatorSample? OnDisplayBar(
PluginIndicatorBar displayBar)
{
_ema.Update(displayBar.Close, displayBar.Timestamp);
return !_ema.HasValue
? null
: new PluginIndicatorSample
{
Timestamp = displayBar.Timestamp,
Value = _ema.Current
};
}A callback from a Market Studio indicator stream. The complete plugin supplies its definition, configured period and stream factory.
var wasBelowSlow = _previousFast < _previousSlow;
var isAboveSlow = fastValue > slowValue;
var wasAboveSlow = _previousFast > _previousSlow;
var isBelowSlow = fastValue < slowValue;
if (wasBelowSlow && isAboveSlow && !IsLong(_symbol))
{
if (IsShort(_symbol))
Liquidate(_symbol, "Close Short");
if (UseFixedLots)
SetLots(_symbol, VolumeLots, EntryProtection.ExplicitlyUnprotected());
else
SetHoldings(_symbol, AllocationPercent);
}
else if (wasAboveSlow && isBelowSlow && IsLong(_symbol))
{
Liquidate(_symbol, "Close Long");
}
_previousFast = fastValue;
_previousSlow = slowValue;An OnData excerpt from the SMA crossover algorithm. The complete plugin supplies indicator setup, readiness checks and crossover history. Fixed-size entries explicitly omit attached stop-loss and take-profit protection.
Indicators and algorithms in C#, built against the plugin SDK.
Build a manifest-backed plugin with the templates your workflow needs.
Refresh the plugin catalogue as you develop, ready for new work.
Charts, screeners, historical research and configured strategies.
FROM CODE TO A CONFIGURED STRATEGY
Choose instruments, historical data and parameters. Run a backtest, then inspect equity, drawdown and individual trades.
Search FastPeriod and SlowPeriod while keeping position sizing fixed. Compare candidate results before choosing what to investigate next.
Configure the algorithm and parameters with the intended accounts and feeds. Review and approve live-account execution through Market Studio's preflight workflow.
05AlertsALERTS THAT FIT YOUR WORKFLOW
Follow market setups, strategy events and economic releases without watching every screen. Build persistent monitors, combine screener conditions and route the events that matter to your desktop, Telegram or Discord.
Turn a custom study into a persistent watch: multi-horizon momentum, trend transitions, volatility or price structure. Save the exact parameters, instruments and timeframes, require closed-bar confirmation, then review the monitor and its history together.
Configure a study’s parameters and output, set the confirmation window and apply the rule across an instrument/timeframe batch. Choose notification channels for the saved monitors.
The server and feed must keep running; chart attachments need a primary Market Studio window available.
Monitor standard or custom indicator outputs in the background. Screener rules can combine quote and indicator conditions with AND/OR logic and crossover checks.
C# algorithms and indicators can emit their own alerts. Keep event detection in your strategy, with optional chart context for Telegram and Discord.
Set advance reminders for economic-calendar events. Receive them in Market Studio or send them to your configured Telegram and Discord destinations.
Follow fills, order and session events, research jobs and feed connections in the notification centre. Choose which supported events reach your desktop.
06RiskUNDERSTAND THE EXPOSURE
Look beyond a return curve. Explore the factors behind an equity portfolio, the relationships between its parts and the assumptions behind an exit.
Choose a factor model and analyse an equity allocation, current holdings or a saved strategy result. Trace exposures and contributions, then explore how the model responds to different scenarios.
Inspect factor, asset and residual relationships from an immutable model snapshot. Explore daily, annualised and horizon-scaled matrices, with the units and saved context retained.
Use traded-volume participation and stress assumptions to explore capacity, liquidation horizons and hypothetical spread and impact costs. See the missing or excluded inputs alongside the estimates.
Save named, dated risk runs. Compare portfolio exposures with a benchmark, review active exposures and revisit the inputs behind a result.
Risk and liquidity outputs are modelled estimates. Historical relationships, proxy coverage and volume assumptions affect the results.
07WorkspacesA HOME FOR EACH PART OF YOUR PROCESS
Save the setup for a market watch, a research session or a trading day. Switch between named workspaces; on desktop, keep several open together.
Keep your charts, research and trading tools together. Shape a workspace around the decisions you make, with panels and tabs that let every view earn its place.
Save named layouts for market watching, research and trading, and switch between them. Use tabbed panels and result views; on macOS and Windows, keep multiple workspaces open concurrently.
Keep a market view on one screen and research on another, with native windows that remain part of your workspace.
Save named workspaces, duplicate a starting point, and import or export layouts with their relevant chart and screener definitions.
On Windows and macOS, have several workspaces open concurrently. Keep market watching, research and execution ready in native tabs and windows.
Organise independent charts, research and trading tools in tabbed panel stacks. Explore result subtabs, with instrument and timeframe links where you want them.
Spread native windows across displays, move tabs or panels between them, and keep each part of your Windows or macOS workspace within reach.
08API & MCPREST API + MCP
Hundreds of REST endpoints connect scripts, applications and local MCP clients to Market Studio. Discover the available contracts, automate research and inspect the results through the same platform.
Explore hundreds of endpoints through the generated API catalogue, OpenAPI and searchable documentation, covering market data, research, trading and platform management.
FOUR EXAMPLES FROM HUNDREDS OF ENDPOINTS
/api/catalogueDiscover operations & schemas/api/backtestStart a research run/api/backtest/{id}/resultsInspect the result/api/optimizationExplore parameter rangesDiscover the request contracts. Submit work, follow its progress and retrieve the results.
Read the guideGenerated tools expose Market Studio’s extensive REST catalogue to local MCP clients, alongside curated platform workflows. The four steps below show one research workflow from a much broader toolset.
amm_list_algorithmsamm_start_backtestamm_get_backtest_statusamm_get_backtest_resultResearch, optimisation, portfolios, data and supported desktop actions remain connected to Market Studio.
Read the guideOne platform, more ways to work. Keep discretionary decisions, C# strategies and external tools connected to the same research and trading environment.
Live-account execution follows Market Studio's preflight and approval workflow.THE DETAILS ADD UP
From organising a market universe to distributing a research run, Market Studio connects the tools behind a trading workflow.
Session pivot points, technical indicators, Fibonacci drawings, templates and historical trade overlays.
Watchlists, sparklines, grouped indicator outputs, configurable timeframes and alerts.
Custom contracts, reversible overrides, trading hours, groups, historical downloads and local data coverage.
Economic events, exchange sessions, holidays and market hours beside your charts.
Order tickets, account activity and position monitoring alongside your market views.
Depth of market, depth charts, time and sales, and recording and replay workflows.
Configure market data and execution connections for the instruments and accounts you use.
Keep configured strategy instances, live portfolio activity and execution audit in view.
Historical strategy runs, detailed reports and manual forward-testing workflows.
Grid, adaptive-grid and genetic search, with candidate results and sensitivity analysis.
In-sample and out-of-sample windows, plus runs across strategies and instruments.
Strategy selection, allocation analysis, combined results and factor risk inspection.
Extend your research with strategy and indicator plugins, guides and reusable templates.
Follow indicator conditions with saved background alerts and notification history.
Exposures, modelled volatility and VaR, risk contributions, stress scenarios and validation.
Inspect factor, asset and residual relationships in immutable, dated model snapshots.
Volume participation, capacity, exit horizons and hypothetical spread and impact costs.
Save, duplicate, import and export layouts. Open several concurrently on macOS and Windows.
Arrange independent tools, link instruments and move panels across your desktop.
Automate through REST and local MCP, with configured workers for research jobs.
CONNECTED TO YOUR MARKETS
Data and execution capabilities depend on the venue, account permissions and feed entitlements.
A LITTLE MORE CONTEXT
A closer look at the platform
and the research behind a decision.
Market Studio is a trading and research platform that brings market charting, strategy backtesting, parameter optimisation, portfolio analysis and trading tools into a flexible workspace. You can arrange tools in panels, tabs and separate windows to suit the way you work.
Yes. Charts, indicators, drawing tools, screeners and order management support discretionary workflows. Strategy backtesting, optimisation, walk-forward testing and portfolio research support systematic research. Both can share the same workspace.
Browse instruments by broker and asset type, create reusable groups and inspect each contract's sizing, pricing and local history coverage. You can create or duplicate custom instruments, keep field overrides separate from broker defaults and define reusable trading hours with weekly sessions and holidays.
Use indicators such as session Pivot Points alongside drawing tools such as Fibonacci retracements and extensions. Save chart templates for reuse. Screeners support sparklines, indicator timeframes and separate output columns grouped under one header, so related values stay together.
Create trading algorithms and streaming indicators with the Market Studio plugin SDK. Use your indicators in charts and screeners, research algorithms with backtests and optimisation, and configure them for automated strategies. Reusable chart, screener and workspace templates help package a complete workflow.
Yes. Explore hundreds of REST endpoints through the generated API catalogue, OpenAPI and searchable documentation. Connect local MCP clients to launch research jobs, inspect results and invoke supported desktop workflows. Live-account execution uses Market Studio's preflight and approval workflow.
Choose a strategy, instruments, a historical period and its parameters, then run a backtest. Inspect the report, equity, drawdown and individual trades. Optimisation explores parameter combinations, while walk-forward testing separates training and evaluation windows.
Combine the daily-close returns of saved strategy runs, explore strategy selection and allocations, and examine the resulting portfolio metrics and factor risk. This helps you study combinations of research results. Running a live portfolio is a separate execution workflow.
Explore factor exposures, factor and residual contributions, modelled volatility and VaR, covariance and correlation, stress scenarios, rolling validation and data coverage. Save a dated risk run and compare its exposures with a benchmark. The results depend on the selected model, proxies and available history.
Market Studio uses traded-volume history and your participation and stress assumptions to estimate capacity, liquidation horizons and hypothetical exit costs. It shows excluded or missing inputs so you can assess the basis of the result. Actual executable liquidity, timing and costs can differ from these modelled estimates.
Market Studio runs on Windows and macOS, with native workspaces, tabs and multiple windows. Arrange your charts, research and trading tools across displays to suit the way you work.
Save a panel arrangement as a named workspace and switch between saved layouts. Keep multiple workspaces open concurrently, organise charts and research in tabs, and move tabs or panels between native windows on Windows and macOS.
No. Historical and simulated results do not guarantee future performance. Data quality, assumptions, trading costs, execution conditions and overfitting all affect how research translates to real markets. Trading involves risk, including loss of capital.
Market Studio supports background indicator monitors, combined screener rules, alerts emitted by C# algorithms and indicators, and economic-calendar reminders. The notification centre also tracks trading, research and system events. Delivery options depend on the source and include in-app, local desktop, sound, Telegram and Discord. The Market Studio server and data feed must keep running. Optional chart attachments require an available primary Market Studio window; Telegram and Discord need your configured bots and destinations.
Yes. Run research on a configured worker or distribute batch jobs across a worker pool. Each complete backtest or optimisation runs on one executor with its own data and plugins; one backtest is not split across machines. Market Studio tracks progress and downloads completed results into your research history. Remote machines require a prepared, authenticated HTTPS connection.