Frequently asked questions

WalkStrat is a TradingApp that runs inside TradeStation Desktop. It takes a strategy you already have and puts it through the validation a quant fund would demand before allocating capital: parameter search, candidate filtering, Monte Carlo resampling and real walk-forward testing on data the optimizer never saw.

A desktop app. It installs on your Windows PC and runs inside a TradeStation Workspace. This website is only where you buy it, download it and read the documentation.

Yes. WalkStrat uses TradeStation's optimizer, market data and EasyLanguage compiler. You need a working TradeStation installation with data for the markets you want to test.

No, but one thing is needed: a strategy already written in EasyLanguage. From there WalkStrat generates the code to compile, sets up each test and collects the results, and produces the final deployment code. Compiling it and running the finished strategy in TradeStation remain manual steps.

No. WalkStrat produces the final strategy code. Attaching it to a chart and enabling automation in TradeStation is deliberately left as a manual step you take yourself.

No. Your strategies, parameter ranges, optimization results, trades files and generated code are written to your local Working Folder and never uploaded. The software makes no network connections at all — not even to check your license. Your license is a short text token you paste in once; WalkStrat verifies it on your own computer, and sends nothing.

Only to collect your license token from your account page, and to download the software. The application itself never goes online — activation and every later check happen entirely on your own computer.

To delete this account, email support@walkstrat.pro from the account's address. Deleting it also ends the ability to retrieve or renew the license token. Requests are answered within one month.

Professional is the full pipeline, including the WFO configuration matrix, real walk-forward validation, the robustness view and the richer candidates analysis. Basic covers the streamlined path from settings through optimization and candidates to Deployment Code, without walk-forward validation.

Yes — a 14-day trial with the full Pro feature set, one per person. No payment details are needed to start it.

Yes. Both editions are sold either One-Time — pay once, yours permanently, with 12 months of updates included — or Yearly. There is no monthly plan. After the included 12 months, an optional update renewal costs $99/year for Basic and $260/year for Pro; the software you bought keeps working either way.

A license is tied to your TradeStation Customer Number, not to a computer. You may install it on as many of your own machines as you like, and it covers every TradeStation account under that number.

A Yearly license carries an expiry date. You are warned well in advance, and if it lapses the software stops working until a valid license is entered again. Work already saved to disk is unaffected. A One-Time license never expires.

Yes — 14 days, money back, on your first purchase. See the Refund Policy for the details.

Paddle, our payment provider, alongside the WalkStrat name. Paddle handles payment, invoicing and any sales tax or VAT that applies where you are.

Yes. They are standalone TradingApps, each a single .eld import with its own user guide, and they cost nothing. They do not require an WalkStrat license.

Yes. Each one is self-contained. Some of them pair naturally with WalkStrat — the trades exporter produces files the Monte Carlo tool can read — but none of them depend on it.

Enough that the numbers are not dominated by a handful of trades. How many that is depends on the trading style, the strategy and the instrument — a scalping strategy produces far more trades in a month than a swing strategy does in a year. As a general principle, the fewer the trades, the more any single one moves the result, and the more cautious the reading should be.

It is a random resample of your trade sequence, so small run-to-run variation is expected. Read the distribution and its percentiles, not any single number.

WalkStrat does not monitor live strategies or send alerts — it is a testing tool you run when you choose to. Traders commonly re-run the pipeline after a material change in a strategy's behaviour, or after a period they consider long enough to matter. How long that is depends on the strategy and the market, and is a judgement for the trader.