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The product · Private beta

From idea
to order.

Describe a strategy, let an agent build and test it, deploy it with limits, and watch every order — five surfaces that close one loop, with a person’s permission wherever it matters.

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00 · The loop

One loop, seven steps.
Three are yours.

  1. Describe it in plain English. Chat proposes each change as a card you apply; an agent builds a draft workflow and asks before it tracks a strategy or spends on a backtest.

    Your click: Apply · Approve
    In the product__create_workflow__track_strategy__run_backtest

  2. Orbital’s own deterministic engine replays daily or minute bars with explicit costs. The verdict arrives with its evidence — every trade, the drawdown, 1,000 resamples — and a Sharpe that says how many configurations were tried to find it.

    In the productEquity vs. benchmarkHow much of this is luck?

  3. In Trade you pick the paper account, set four limits — budget, max per trade, open positions, a daily loss pause — and choose how much it does alone: Deny, Ask, Auto or Always-approve. Ask is the default.

    Your click: Deploy
    In the productDeploy reviewBudget · Max per trade · Open positions · Daily loss pause

  4. Each tick in market hours, the strategy decides — by its rules, its compiled program or an agent’s judgment, every 5 minutes or once a day. On paper today, agent-decided strategies trade.

    In the productEvery 5 minutesEvery trading day

  5. Before an order leaves, the platform checks the permission mode, the four limits, the market clock and which strategy owns the position. Under Ask or Auto, a new trade waits in Activity for your Approve — and expires if nobody answers.

    Your click: Approve
    In the productWaiting for youApprove and place

  6. One order goes to your Alpaca paper account, placed by the platform — deciding agents never hold your broker credentials.

    In the productSentFilled

  7. Positions, orders and one Activity timeline — every decision, hold, order and fill, with who acted and who approved it. Nothing is shown as closed until Alpaca confirms the fill.

    In the productFilled · Strategy · Approved by Nathan
  • A person’s click, by default
  • The platform or an agent

01 · Orbital Chat

Ask in plain English.
Apply what you like.

Orbital Chat reads your workflows, runs and results and answers in plain English. When it wants to change something, it proposes the change as a card — nothing is written until you apply it.

  1. Proposal cards

    Every write comes back as a card you Apply; every backtest is a card you Run.

  2. The work, shown

    Raw tool calls like backtest_get and edit_workflow, exactly as they ran.

  3. Your model

    Pick a frontier model per conversation; usage shows as credits on every answer.

02 · Agents

Hire agents with jobs.
Not prompts.

An agent is a named, configured model with instructions, triggers and permissions. It works in the background and stops for you wherever you have asked it to.

  1. Jobs, missions, monitors

    Named agents that run on a schedule, work toward a goal, or wake when a signal fires.

  2. Ask by default

    Tracking a strategy or spending on a backtest stops at an Approve / Refuse card in your Needs-you inbox.

  3. Receipts

    Every run ends with what it made, what it spent and a Show work trail.

03 · Workflows

Strategies you can read.
Node by node.

A strategy is a workflow typed as a strategy: a universe, indicators, an entry, an exit and a size — each one a node you can open and read, and every run of it on the record.

  1. Rules, program or agent

    Decide with rule cards, compiled code or an agent’s judgment.

  2. Proposals as ghosts

    Agent edits appear dashed on the canvas until you apply them.

  3. Every run audited

    Per-node status, durations and logs, run after run.

04 · Backtesting

Evidence before exposure.
On the whole US tape.

Orbital’s own deterministic engine replays the tape with explicit costs, then reports what the result is worth — including how much of it could be luck.

  1. The whole tape

    Daily bars for every US stock since 2016, minute bars since September 2023.

  2. Byte-reproducible

    The same spec on the same data produces the same bytes.

  3. Luck, measured

    Deflated Sharpe with its configuration count, Monte Carlo resamples and an honesty ledger.

Every run reports

Found, or fitted? Every backtest tells you.

Daily bars start
20161
Minute bars start
Sep 20232
Monte Carlo resamples per run
1,000
Reproducible
1 : 13
  1. Daily bars start: All US stocks, from 2016-01-04.
  2. Minute bars start: From 2023-09-05, regular trading hours only.
  3. Reproducible: Same spec, data snapshot and engine version produce byte-identical results.

05 · Trade

Every strategy on one ledger.
Every order on the record.

Run your strategies on your Alpaca paper account from one place. Activity records every decision, hold, order and fill — and who approved it.

  1. One ledger

    Every strategy on the account with its evidence, its budget beside every other budget and how it is doing. Going over the account warns; it never refuses.

  2. Approvals in Activity

    Held entries and exits wait in one list. Approve opens a review, Manual… opens a prefilled order, and Refuse takes two clicks.

  3. New order

    Place a trade yourself — Buy or Sell — and the ticket says when a sell would open a short.

06 · Control

Autonomy
you can dial.

Permissions are enforced by the platform the moment an order is admitted — never by a prompt. Deciding agents hold no broker credentials.

Trading permissionPer deployment · Ask is the default

Asks you to approve every trade it makes, including exits.

Entry signal11:35 ET
Waits for your approvalDropped if nobody answers within 24 hours.
Exit signal12:10 ET
Waits for your approvalPlaced anyway if nobody answers within 24 hours.

Ask. Asks you to approve every trade it makes, including exits. Entry signal: Waits for your approval. Exit signal: Waits for your approval.

SPY/QQQ 5m momentumAGENT · decided by Intraday Trader · every 5 minutes
12:10 ETExit signal

Deploy review · one strategy

One review before anything runs.

It settles what a strategy may do with your paper account — and only a person deploys it.

The proposal

Strategy, account and limits arrive together — filled in by you or proposed by an agent — and nothing runs until you deploy it.

Kill switch · one account

Stop everything. Two clicks.

Pause every strategy, cancel open orders and close positions at market — in a safe order, each step waiting for the one before it. Other accounts keep running.

Nothing is shown as closed until Alpaca confirms the fill.

07 · Under the hood

The rest of the desk. Built in, not bolted on.

  • Deterministic engine

    Rust, bar replay, byte-reproducible results.

  • The whole tape

    Daily bars since 2016, minute bars since September 2023.

  • Frontier models

    Pick the model per chat and per agent.

  • Market-hours automations

    Schedules and events gated to US market sessions, in ET.

  • Notifications

    Approvals waiting for you and finished runs, as they happen.

  • Dashboards

    62 widget types for everything else you watch.

  • Watchlists

    One list feeds every workflow that reads it.

  • One timeline

    Every decision, hold, order and fill, with who approved it.

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