A full quant lab for crypto. The infrastructure that replaces your trading stack.
Strategy without code. Validation on real costs. Execution on your machine. Audit of every fill.
No need to guess parameters — start from proven presets, tweak them, or build everything from scratch. A starting point, not a ceiling.
You set commission yourself based on your exchange tier; funding recalculates every 8 hours; slippage depends on liquidity; the impact of order size on execution price is accounted for. The backtester core parameters are open for tuning.
Telegram, Email, browser push, in-app and socket for your own automation.
From base parameters to dynamic risk — every piece of the strategy is explicit and visible. Nothing is hidden inside a "magic" algorithm.
Start from proven templates or save your own as a base. When you work from a template, the original stays untouched — experiment without fear of losing it.
Stop gluing tools together. The full cycle — in one interface.
Each tool lives on its own. Context falls between them — something doesn’t get logged, something gets forgotten, key connections slip.
From idea to a working strategy — in 4 steps
Build the strategy with your mouse
Add indicators, describe entry and exit conditions, set stop-loss and take-profits — through the visual interface, step by step. Progress saves at every step, you can pause and come back later.
Open the interactive flow →Test on history — honestly
The backtest accounts for commissions, slippage and funding payouts, which on perps can eat the whole profit. You see each trade, the equity curve, 20 metrics and the Monte Carlo stress test — where the result is real edge, and where it is just a lucky streak.
Open the interactive flow →Optimize without lying to yourself
The genetic algorithm goes through thousands of parameter combinations — but it does not chase maximum profit, it chases a smooth equity curve. The split into In-Sample and Out-of-Sample keeps the strategy from "memorizing" history and collapsing in live trading.
Open the interactive flow →Launch the way that suits you
Assistant mode: notifications via Telegram, email or push, the decision is yours. Auto mode: an open-source app runs on your own computer (a Windows, macOS or Linux build) or a server (Docker, from $4/month). Trading keys stay only with you — we do not see them in any mode.
Open the interactive flow →Tools for systematic trading
Strategy builder
11 steps. Any complexity. No code.
The list of indicators and conditions is constantly expanding.
Backtester
A backtest that shows you what you will actually get
Most backtesters paint an ideal picture: no commissions, no slippage, no funding. The strategy looks beautiful on history and bleeds in live trading.
Veskald's backtest accounts for every real-trading cost: you set commission yourself based on your exchange tier, funding recalculates every 8 hours, slippage depends on liquidity, and on large orders the impact of size on execution price is included. The backtester core parameters are open — you see exactly how each trade is calculated and can tune the math to your trading profile. On trades up to $300 the gap with reality fits within a fraction of a percent — verifiable in the Execution Log.
What you get after a backtest
- 20 performance metrics: Profit Factor, Sharpe, Sortino, Calmar, Max Drawdown, CAGR
- Equity curve with zoom by period
- Comparison against Buy & Hold
- Monte Carlo stress test and Trade Shuffle
- Market-regime map — where the strategy earns, where it bleeds
- Auto-Insights — automatic recommendations based on clusters
- Every trade available for review, candle by candle
Automated strategy tuning
Replaces weeks of manual grid search. Looks for stability, not the peak.
By hand you will try 10–20 parameter combinations and get tired. A genetic algorithm goes through thousands. But it is not about speed — it is about what exactly it is looking for.
An approach that defends against overfitting
A smooth equity curve
the algorithm optimizes not for maximum profit (one lucky trade means nothing) but for a smooth equity curve
Population diversity
if all variants start to look the same — the system intervenes so you do not get stuck in a local maximum
Out-of-Sample validation
after optimization the strategy is tested on data that was not in the search. If it drops — it is overfitting, back to the original parameters
Excluded periods
you can exclude anomalous periods (flash crashes, non-representative segments) from the search
Trading journal and Execution Log
Every trade — three layers: expectation, reality, the gap
Trading journal
A full trade history with filters by date, direction, status and result. Each trade can be opened and replayed candle by candle — like a video player for the chart. You see how the situation unfolded, what news was happening at every candle, and what decisions the strategy made.
Execution Log
A comparison of the backtest with reality: what the test expected and what actually happened. Green check — matched. Red triangle — mismatch, worth a closer look. Systematic mismatches are a reason to revisit parameters. One-off ones are normal market noise, covered by your reserve.
One strategy is a bet. A portfolio is a system.
Combine several strategies into one portfolio — and see how they work together. Veskald shows the aggregate equity curve, the combined Sharpe ratio, correlations between strategies, and how they compensate for each other's drawdowns. Three average strategies with low correlation often produce a smoother curve and shallower drawdown than one "perfect" one.
Portfolio-level risk management
Global rules for all strategies: daily loss limit, max trades per day, leverage cap. Plus per-strategy settings — the global rules act as a safety net, the specific settings refine behavior.
The "What if" calculator shows how many days, given current settings, until you hit a chosen drawdown — so you understand in advance whether your approach is too aggressive.
Your strategies and funds — yours only
Three principles we do not break:
Strategies are encrypted
Two-key encryption: your key + our key, useless on their own. A decrypted strategy lives only in RAM and is wiped after use. The Veskald team cannot read your trading logic.
API keys are read-only
The platform connects to the exchange via keys without trading or withdrawal rights. We see your positions — for analytics, the journal and matching against the backtest — and that is it.
Trading keys — on your server
Automated execution runs through an open-source app you launch yourself — on your own computer (Windows, macOS or Linux) or a server. Trading keys are never passed to Veskald. Download a ready-made build for your OS, or build it yourself with a single script — the instructions are in the docs.
On top of that: 2FA, IP whitelisting, time-limited access tokens. And transparency: the bot is fully open-source, the code is yours to read.
Exchange connections
A direct API connection for market data and notifications. Trade orders are executed by a self-hosted app you run yourself — a Windows, macOS or Linux build on your computer, or Docker on a server.
Start free. Pay when you see what works.
Your subscription grants access to software tools. Veskald does not provide investment services and does not guarantee trading results.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Veskald for?
Active traders who want to trade systematically, save their time and automate the routine work.
How often do updates ship?
Releases — 1–2 times a month. The roadmap is shaped together with active users, requests from tickets go into the work. The newest major addition — already live — is Veskald Orion, three AI strategy agents: Belatrix (reality-check of existing strategies), Rigel (quick prototypes with pro safeguards), Betelgeuse (deep research in a dialogue with you — it asks rather than assumes, builds and validates the strategy, and digs until it finds durable edge — or tells you plainly the strategy is dead, instead of burning tokens).
Do I need to know how to code?
No. Everything works through the visual builder — you pick indicators and conditions from a menu. If you want to go deeper — there are AND/OR groupings and multi-timeframe rules. No code at any stage.
Can Veskald lose or steal my money?
Technically — no, and by design. We only accept read-only API keys; any key that carries trading or withdrawal rights is rejected on submission and never stored. Even if you wanted to authorize us, you could not: on most exchanges a trading key only works from a whitelisted IP, and our servers sit behind Cloudflare with no public address to whitelist. And for automated execution the trading keys never reach us at all — they run inside the open-source bot on your own server.
Why is the genetic-algorithm optimizer better than my manual grid search?
Not "better" — complementary. By hand you will try 10–20 combinations. The algorithm goes through thousands. But the main thing is that it optimizes not for maximum profit (one lucky trade means nothing) but for the smoothness of the equity curve. That protects against the overfitting almost every self-made quant experiment falls into.
How accurate is your backtest?
On trades up to $300 the gap with real trading is under 0.5%. What is accounted for: commission (you set it yourself based on your exchange tier), funding every 8 hours, slippage from liquidity, and on large volumes the impact of order size on execution price. The backtest works with market orders, and — importantly — the backtester core is open: parameters can be tuned to your trading profile, you see exactly how each trade is calculated. You can compare expectation with reality in the Execution Log.
Who sees my strategies? Will you copy them?
Strategies are encrypted with a two-key scheme: your key + our key, both required to decrypt. A decrypted strategy lives only in RAM and is wiped after use. The Veskald team has no access to the contents of your strategies.
Which exchanges are supported?
Stable today: Binance, Bybit, Kraken. In development: OKX, Coinbase. If you need another exchange (Bitget, BingX, Hyperliquid, dYdX and others) — write to us, we usually ship it in 1–3 weeks.
What are strategy templates?
A saved strategy you can use as a starting point. Take a ready template from the library or save one of your own. When you build a new strategy on top of a template, you work with a copy — the original stays intact. Experiment without fear of breaking what works.
Where is my data stored?
On servers in the EU (Hetzner, Germany). GDPR applies in full — details are in the Privacy Policy. Strategies are encrypted with a two-key scheme; exchange trading keys are not passed to Veskald at all.
Can I integrate Veskald with my own systems, or am I locked in?
No lock-in. On the Trader plan and above, every strategy emits real-time events over a WebSocket: you register your IP, get an IP-bound token, and our backend streams events straight to your endpoint — build any execution system of your own on top of Veskald. Alternatively, automated execution runs through an open-source bot you host yourself. Trading keys never reach us either way. Integration options for teams are on the B2B page.
Build your first strategy — free, no card
Build a strategy with your mouse, test it on real data, and see how it would have performed.
No bank card required
Risk Disclosure
Trading crypto-asset derivatives, including perpetual futures, involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every market participant. Veskald provides software tools for building, testing and executing trading strategies — this is not investment advice, not asset management, and not a guarantee of trading results. Past backtest performance does not predict future returns.