Create Thousands of Algorithmic Trading Strategies at the Click of a Button
No coding necessary. Software built for algorithmic traders
Introducing
Build Alpha is a genetic algorithm that generates countless robust algorithmic trading strategies to meet the trader’s risk and performance metrics with absolutely NO programming required. Select thousands of entries, exits, risk management, timeframes, asset classes and more. All point and click.
My Goal
Bridge the gap between the programming world, the quantitative trading world, and the money manager/trader who seeks to evolve with the times. Simply said, I want to make algorithmic trading accessible for all.
Step 1
Select Thousands of Signals
Choose one, some or all from the pre-built signal library of more than 5,000+ signals covering price action, candlesticks, chart patterns, technical indicators, volume, volatility, seasonality, market breadth, sentiment, term structure, yields, spreads, economic data, COT data, news events, option flows, intermarket, multi-timeframe, fundamental data, weather and more.
Step 2
Automatically
Filter for Overfitting
Professional and proprietary robustness tests to stress test and validate trading strategies. Identify lying backtests and misleading results before risking capital. Automate entire workflows to only find strategies that pass your conditions.
Step 3
View Strategies
and Generate Code
Export fully automatable code for every strategy you build — with backtest results that match seamlessly across platforms. Compatible with TradeStation, Ninjatrader, Interactive Brokers, Python, MultiCharts, Metatrader4/5, TradingView, and more.
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My Goal
Bridge the gap between the programming world, the quantitative trading world, and the money manager/trader who seeks to evolve with the times.
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Portfolio Generation
Build Alpha automatically generates optimal multi-strategy portfolios based on your specified risk profile, desired fitness function, and saved strategies. BA quickly analyzes combinations and allocations across strategy types, asset classes, and timeframes to find what’s best.
Generate Trading Strategies in less than one-minute
Watch me generate thousands of trading strategies controlling for sizing, risk and entries in under one minute all with no coding!
Meet David Bergstrom
*New* Feature
Health Scores and Robustness
Build Alpha goes beyond backtests with institutional grade robustness testing and continuous strategy health monitoring. Strategies are evaluated against historical limits, regime behavior, and portfolio-level risk impact to identify fragile or misaligned systems early. This is not optimization – it’s portfolio governance: an operating system for deciding when to size down, replace, or retire strategies with discipline and data.
*New* Feature
Intelligence Report
Build Alpha scans your saved strategies and will make suggestions to improve performance. This intelligence engine has been trained on thousands of trading strategies and various market regimes across asset classes. Get automatic insights for stronger, more robust strategies. Strategy development with a copilot.
Meet David Bergstrom
David Bergstrom – I am the guy behind Build Alpha. I have spent a decade-plus in the professional trading world working as a market maker and quantitative strategy developer at a high frequency trading firm with a Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) seat, consulting for Hedge Funds, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), Family Offices and Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs). I am a self-taught programmer utilizing C++, C# and python with a statistics background specializing in data science, machine learning and trading strategy development. I have been featured on Chatwithtraders.com, Bettersystemtrader.com, Desiretotrade.com, Quantocracy, Traderlife.com, Seeitmarket.com, Benzinga, TradeStation, NinjaTrader and more. Most of my experience has led me to a series of repeatable processes to find, create, test and implement algorithmic trading ideas in a robust manner. Build Alpha is the culmination of this process from start to finish. Please reach out to me directly at any time.
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Used by quants, hedge funds and independent traders in 70+ countries. Designed by a high frequency and hedge fund quant.
Frequently Asked Questions
What price action and technical indicators are available in Build Alpha?
The Build Alpha algorithmic trading platform launched with *only* 1,000 technical indicators and trade functions. Now Build Alpha has more than 7,000+ market signals to choose from as I constantly add more with each new update and suggestions from algorithmic traders around the world.
Furthermore, Build Alpha contains
- technical indicators
- price action signals
- breakouts
- candlesticks
- quantified chart patterns
- volume weighted average price
- quantitative analysis
- trend following
- mean reversion
- machine learning
- volume signals
- volatility signals
- moving average
- Bollinger bands
- average price
- full TA library
- and more.
Additionally, Build Alpha also contains non-price-based signals such as:
- stock market breadth
- economic data
- holidays
- news events
- volatility index term structure
- treasury yields and spreads
- gamma exposure
- option flows
- market sentiment
- commitment of traders report
- and more.
These non-price-based signals give much needed context to price-action and volume-based strategies to help keep strategies in-tune with the current market regime/environment over multiple market conditions in a way that price action only strategies typically cannot.
You also have the ability to build your own indicators and signals with a drag and drop code-free builder. You can also add your own custom indicators with python, if you want.
More importantly, there is NO coding required to use Build Alpha to backtest or build an algorithmic trading system or test your own trading algorithms. The ultimate data science toolbox and no black box trading system – access to all the different technical indicators, strategy signals and financial markets.
Is there a guide or training on how to build an automated trading system or algorithmic trading system?
Yes, absolutely. Almost half of Build Alpha traders were not doing any algorithmic trading or algorithmic trades prior to Build Alpha. Just regular human traders or manual trading with no prior algo trading experience or trades.
The license includes a written Signal Glossary and User Manual with pictures and text explanations. Additionally, there is also a private video training library that contains 50+ personal videos covering best algorithmic trading practices and full walkthrough of how to use the algorithmic trading software.
My mentor is a high frequency trading, market maker and an absolute unicorn when it comes to quantitative analysis, high frequency, machine learning, and finding systematic trading edges. My learning curve has been sped up tremendously. The videos will do the same.
First, I discuss the basics of the market, algorithmic trading and system trading. Next, I get into more advanced videos where I show quantitative trading examples, market trades, how to set expectations N trades from now, explain the validation tests, explain what a pass/fail algorithm is, best backtesting practices, and some dos and donts.
Ultimately, I conclude with portfolio construction and live strategy monitoring techniques. I show how the holy grail is not technical analysis but combining trading algorithms. My goal is for you to optimize your use of the license.
Techniques apply to all financial instruments and skill levels from new traders to institutional traders to those doing long-term investing. No black box techniques! Tons of top algorithmic trading knowledge shared in the community.
Do professional traders use this algo software? Can Small Traders Use Build Alpha?
Yes, Build Alpha was designed for serious traders that want to quantify their edges but is flexible for all market participants. Build Alpha is institutional grade algorithmic trading software available to all.
Build Alpha has a great community that ranges from small traders with only a few thousand-dollar accounts looking to start trading to hedge funds, family offices and RIAs with 100M+ in AUM. Most important, the software is flexible and gives full control over trade account and position sizing to fit your situation. All risk metrics and tests scale to your trading account size settings and all markets. Build Alpha’s Portfolio mode even supports portfolio management and combined equity curves.
Additionally, you can use advanced features like Intraday Edge that allow you to take daily strategies and see if there are intraday time windows that trade and capture the majority of the edge to reduce hold times and capital requirements. The efficiency of a trading system or trading algorithm is equally important as the underlying edge in these markets.
Can you make money with automated trading? Can you make money with algorithmic trading?
The number one question in automated online trading. Can you make money with algorithmic trading tools? Absolutely. The best trader of all time, Jim Simons, is an automated trader. He is fond of backtesting and designing an algorithm for markets. I had an article about him published on SeeItMarket here: https://www.seeitmarket.com/5-lessons-from-one-of-the-greatest-traders-of-all-time-jim-simons/
In addition, here are a few Build Alpha user success trade stories here: buildalpha.com/success
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Can you automate trading? How can I build an automated trading system?
Yes, you can absolutely automate your trading and start algo auto trading with no coding background. After the simulation backtest generation, Build Alpha – the best systematic trading platform – will produce fully automated code for any strategy it (or you) builds for a variety of platforms and brokers including TradeStation, Ninjatrader8, Metatrader4, Metatrader5, TradingView’s Pine Script, Pro Real Time, MultiCharts, Stage5 and more.
That’s right, even if you’re not a Tradestation coder or Ninjatrader coder you can use Build Alpha to do automatic trading on a variety of trading platform. Build Alpha will produce fully executable code for you at the click of a button.
In addition, I have also partnered with TradeStation and Interactive Brokers to be able to monitor live algos and trade directly through the Build Alpha platform on both sim and live accounts. Live trading through Build Alpha is coming very soon! Important to note, I will be adding more broker connections soon! If you have suggestions please email them to me.
Build Alpha covers technical analysis, price action, volume, indicators, fundamentals, options flows, market breadth, alternative data, moving averages, vix, volatility index term structure, treasury yields and spreads, currencies, economic data, dark pool trading, seasonality, etc. If you can quantify it, then I already have. Time to start backtesting and build your trading algorithm with no coding!
Is technical support included? Is market data included?
Yes, technical support is included. Furthermore, there is access to the user group as well as direct email and direct messaging to me. I am extremely fast to respond to emails so please shoot me one anytime at david@buildalpha.com.
Nothing is more frustrating than contemplating placing trades or algorithmic trading but being unsure. Attack the markets with a community before you trade or develop a trading strategy.
Market data is included, and you have the ability to import your own data as well. Live data connections will be available shortly to monitor algorithmic trading in real-time directly from Build Alpha.
You can also import your own trades as a custom strategy to analyze on the built-in data or with the state-of-the-art robustness tests.
For other popular questions about the software, systematic trading or other please review buildalpha.com/faq
What markets and asset classes can I use with Build Alpha?
Build Alpha works on all asset classes and all financial markets. The stock market or stock trading, ETFs, mutual funds, futures, forex or currency pairs, alternative data and even cryptocurrency trading. Any timeframe, any bar type, any asset class. You can even build multi-asset algo trading strategies.
In case that is not enough, you can even import alternative and custom data via txt or csv file. I am building the most flexible algorithmic trading platform. An algorithmic trading platform to cover everything.
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How do you prevent curve fitting when optimizing a trading algorithm?
Validation is where the true edge lies and why Build Alpha has a large suite of advanced validation and robustness tests to stress test every strategy before a trade is made. The reason I set out to do this custom trading platform development was due to a lack of appropriate robustness tools offered to the public.
More importantly, robustness is the main emphasis of Build Alpha and my trading passion. I have spent the last decade with this as my research focus. In fact, most of the tests and methods can be read about on the features page but please start taking advantage of the blog posts and demo videos as well.
In any event, I am always around to answer any questions, discuss new ideas, trades, strategy creation for live trading, and tests for Build Alpha as well.
bONUS
Strategy Starter Pack
Get 10 strategy concepts to accelerate your algo trading. All tested on 15+ years of data, spans all asset classes and multiple timeframes. Load in Build Alpha with one-click. Tweak, test, and make them your own.



Real cost of NOT using Build Alpha
Hiring A Programmer
$3000 to $5000 Per Project
- Weeks or months of waiting
- Every tweak is more money
- Dependent on someone else.
Institutional Software
$20,000 or more per year
- Built for funds not traders
- Steep learning curves
- Locked ecosystems
Learning to Code
Time and Opportunity
- Months & years of struggle
- Never confident once live
- Ongoing updates & bugs
Trusting AI
Uncertainty
- AI Hallucinations
- Find mistakes live
- Same prompt, different results
BUILD ALPHA
Minutes not months. Institutional quality. No coding required. Own it for life.
What's Included with Build Alpha
- Market Data Integration
- Alternative Datasets
- Portfolio Level Testing
- Unlimited code exports
- Automated Workflows
- Full community access
- Private training videos
- Strategy Starter Pack
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