StrategyQuant

Checked October 2026

StrategyQuant builds strategies for you and then runs them through real-tick tests and nine kinds of Monte Carlo. Options are not included, and the license is a one-time payment from $1,290. Backtoast is first if you want to test a strategy you already have and get paid from real trading when it passes.

1Backtoast

You pay $99 for two full tests of your own strategy, and a pass is an offer of 30% of the profit Backtoast makes trading it with its own money.

2StrategyQuant

StrategyQuant is a Prague company with about 23,000 customers, and the software runs on Windows, Mac and Linux with a 14-day trial. The Builder uses genetic programming, which breeds random rule sets and keeps the ones that test best, and AlgoWizard lets you write a single strategy by hand without code. Either way it exports full source code for MetaTrader 4 and 5, TradeStation, MultiCharts, NinjaTrader or JForex.

Build Alpha is the other strategy generator here, with more than a dozen robustness tests and a $1,497 lifetime license.

Testing

A backtest runs at one of four precisions: four price points per bar from its open, high, low and close, minute data inside the bar, real ticks with a spread you set, or real ticks with the real bid and ask. You also set slippage in pips or ticks, commission and swaps. Forex tick data from Dukascopy is free, and stocks and futures come from the data subscription, with 30-plus years of daily bars and 10-plus years of minute bars. Starter leaves out the optimizer and the advanced robustness tests, so walk-forward, which re-fits the rules on one stretch of history and tests them on the next, the walk-forward matrix and Monte Carlo all start on Professional.

Pricing

Each edition is one payment or 12 monthly payments of $129, $149 or $290. Starter and Professional include a year of support and updates, then $300 to extend, and Ultimate includes them for life along with the premium data. Data on its own runs up to $269 a year for stocks and futures with minute bars, and purchases are generally non-refundable.

Facts are from StrategyQuant's own pages, checked 23 and 31 October 2026.