They: approachability
Composing a systematic strategy without writing code is a real achievement and a real advantage for people who want that. Strategies here are code, audited by truncation.
Comparison · checked September 2026
Assembling astrategy is theeasy half
Composer is a strategy-building and automated-investing product, entry around $32 a month when checked. Building is where it is strong. Judging what you built — after fees, slippage, capture and a regime you did not test in — is where most systematic accounts are actually lost.
The gap between built and believable
A composed strategy is still a hypothesis
Drag-and-drop or code, the output is a rule. Whether the rule has an edge is a separate question, and it is answered by a test designed to disappoint you: walk-forward, real costs, and an audit that refuses anything reading the future.
Costs are where composed strategies go to die
Rebalancing is trading, and trading has a price. The four that matter are fees at your effective rate rather than the published one, slippage at your size, capture between the signal price and the fill, and rounding to the venue’s step. We measured capture at 13–32% off on the majors at our size, and it was the largest of the four.
And the record afterwards is the product
Every firing, every run, every decision behind every fill. A strategy without that record is judged by its best month forever, which is how systematic accounts survive years past the point where they stopped working.
Where each is stronger
They: the asset class
Their focus includes US markets. This is crypto, spot and perpetuals.
Us: the judging
Walk-forward, effective fees from fills, slippage, depth limits, and a paper mode that exercises the real order path.
Us: the gate
A risk service that signs approvals and an execution service that refuses one that does not match. Systematic strategies need a limit that is not part of the strategy.
Questions
Can I build without writing code?
Screens, yes — including from a sentence, with the drafted specification shown before it is saved. Strategies are code, because the truncation audit that catches look-ahead needs a function it can call.
Does it rebalance for me?
A promoted strategy can act, after a human promotion with a scope and a risk policy. It is deliberately not a toggle.
How current is this comparison?
Category and entry price checked September 2026. No specific feature claims are made about their product for the same reason every page in this cluster avoids them.
Bring a composed strategy and test it
Free paper accounts run the backtester with real costs and the look-ahead audit.