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Answers to common questions about AlgoWorkout, the kill pipeline, API access, and billing.
Frequently Asked Questions
AlgoWorkout is an educational algorithmic trading platform powered by The Strategy Grinder — a fully automated, 7-stage AI pipeline that generates, tests, and deploys quantitative trading strategies. The core philosophy: destroy the strategy with tests. If it survives, allocate small capital.
The pipeline has 7 stages: (1) Hypothesis Generation (OpenAI o3), (2) Implementation (OpenAI o3 writes Python backtest), (3) Sanity Check kill gate (Sharpe ≥ 0.5, ≥ 25 trades), (4) Adversarial Interrogation (DeepSeek Reasoner attacks assumptions), (5) Stress Test kill gate (5 hostile scenarios, max drawdown -50%), (6) Walk-Forward kill gate (out-of-sample validation, max 50% Sharpe decay), (7) Deploy with human review. Expected survival rate: 2–4%.
A killed strategy failed one of the automated or human-reviewed quality gates. It's moved to the Graveyard with a complete kill report: which gate killed it, what threshold it failed, the specific metrics at time of death, and the full audit trail up to that point.
No. Killed strategies are permanently archived. Re-running a failed hypothesis would be curve fitting — the same trap the pipeline is designed to prevent. You can inspect the kill report to understand why it failed and generate new hypotheses instead.
4 providers: OpenAI (o3) for hypothesis generation and implementation, DeepSeek Reasoner for adversarial interrogation, Google Gemini for stress test analysis, and Anthropic Claude for supplementary critique. Different models for different stages reduces systematic AI bias.
No. AlgoWorkout is an educational platform. All strategies are for paper trading and educational purposes only. Past backtest performance does not guarantee future results. You are solely responsible for your own trading decisions.
API access is available on Builder ($49/month, read-only) and Institutional (custom pricing, read + write) plans. See Access Levels for details.
Market data from Yahoo Finance (yfinance). OHLCV data for liquid ETFs: SPY, QQQ, TLT, GLD, IWM, EFA, and others in the pre-approved universe. Institutional plans can configure custom tickers.
On Builder (5 strategies/month) and Institutional (unlimited) plans, you can submit your own hypotheses to be tested through the full 7-stage pipeline.
Email support@algoworkout.com or go to Account Settings. Cancellation takes effect at the end of your current billing period. No refunds for partial months.