A trading-software studio that shows its work.

What we are — and are not

How we got here

SKLZ started as research: 27 million ticks of market data run through the strategies traders are sold every day. Most looked brilliant on a small sample and reverted to a coin-flip out of sample. That result shaped everything we build — the journal flags coin-flip setups, the marketplace discounts short records, and the engine itself is tuned from its own live journal, not from a backtest screenshot.

The engine runs live on a funded prop-firm evaluation under the firm's own drawdown rules. That is deliberate: a strategy that cannot survive a 4% daily / 7% total drawdown limit is not a strategy, and running under those rules in public keeps us honest about position sizing, stops and partial exits.

• Single-door sizing. One place in the code decides lot size, with a hard ceiling. We learned this the expensive way after an early incident sized a position at 3.12 lots; it cannot happen again by construction.
• PropGuard. Daily and total loss limits are enforced, not just stored. When a limit is hit, new entries freeze — on the master and on every follower.
• Universal entry rule. No entry at an extreme high or low: a 5-minute body close beyond the level, a retest, then a confirmation candle. Every model in the engine goes through the same gate.
• One claims policy. A single policy module decides what performance wording is allowed on the site, in Telegram and in the app. A demo is always called a demo.
• Versioned, tested releases. Every engine build ships with a changelog and a test suite; the zips are public on this site.

What we will not do

• ✕Hold, pool or move your funds. Ever.
• ✕Accept an API key that can withdraw — checked with the exchange, not assumed.
• ✕Pay anyone for recruiting. The partner program is single-level, 50% of what a referred customer pays, with the numbers published.
• ✕Show you a "live activity" feed or a testimonial dollar figure we cannot back with journaled trades.
• ✓Tell you when a record is too short to mean anything — including our own.

Where to find us