You see patterns on the tape.
LAB tells you if they are real.

Describe a trading idea in plain words. LAB compiles it into a testable rule, backtests it on 1085 sessions against an honest baseline, quant-optimizes its variants — and the ones that survive earn a place on your desk, drawing and alerting on the live chart.

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How it works

• 1 · DEVELOP — free. Type the idea the way you would say it out loud: "fade a +3σ stretch off VWAP when a 5-point candle prints on top-decile volume". LAB turns it into a rule with exact thresholds and shows you what it understood. Not compilable yet? It asks one concrete question instead of guessing.
• 2 · BACKTEST — 1 credit. The rule runs over every session in the archive. The verdict is judged against the idea's own core condition as a baseline — never "vs doing nothing" — and split out-of-sample: this year, and the last 40 sessions.
• 3 · QUANT OPTIMIZE — 1 credit. Every threshold of every filter is swept. You see every variant with its out-of-sample numbers, never a cherry-picked winner — and anything that clears the bar is flagged as owing a stricter test.
• 4 · THE DESK. A tested idea draws on the chart — entry marks, simulated trades, zones, threshold rails, your colour — through history, playback and the live session alike. Sound or push alerts fire the moment the live tape crosses in.

Fresh ideas, free

Inside LAB, the IDEA FEED is a running list of rule-shaped ideas our scanner pulls from the wild — raw, plentiful, none of them tested. One click on DEVELOP drops an idea into the chat exactly as if you had typed it yourself, and the conveyor takes it from there. The feed is deliberately untested: publishing verdicts would turn ideas into signals, and signals are the one thing this site refuses to sell. The test — the honest part — is yours to run.

The honesty rule

LAB inherits the terminal's discipline: numbers over adjectives, and the inconvenient result printed as readily as the flattering one. Every fresh desk comes seeded with a real idea walked down the whole conveyor — and its verdict is "does not clear the honest bar", because that is what most ideas honestly do. A tool that always says yes would be selling you your own confirmation bias.

What it costs

Purchased credits never expire and are spent only after your monthly allowance. A failed job refunds its credit automatically. Buying several packs at once is fine — adjust the quantity at checkout.

Questions people actually asked

Where do the numbers come from?

The same public session archive the terminal serves — one pipeline across all years, 1085 sessions on a minute grid. Anyone can download the same days and check.

Are my ideas private?

Yes. Ideas belong to your account, are visible to nobody else, and are never used to train anything.

Why credits instead of unlimited?

Every job runs real compute over the full feature store. Credits price the machine time honestly instead of hiding it in a higher flat fee for everyone.

Can I run LAB from a script?

Yes — issue a labk_ API token on your account page and drive the same conveyor over HTTP. See the LAB API reference.

Does a tested idea work on the live chart?

Yes — the desk draws and alerts on the live session with the same thresholds the backtest used. History, playback and live share one formula.

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Not investment advice. Options trading carries substantial risk of loss. Backtested performance does not guarantee future results.