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TradAI Quickstart Guides

Get started with TradAI in minutes. These guides walk you through the most common workflows.

Available Guides

Guide Time Description
Your First Backtest 5 min Run a strategy backtest end-to-end
Create a New Strategy 15 min Build a custom trading strategy
Collect Market Data 5 min Sync OHLCV data from exchanges
Resource Description
Strategy Templates Ready-to-use templates for different trading styles
CLI Reference Run tradai --help for full command reference

Prerequisites

Before starting any quickstart, ensure:

  1. UV installed: curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
  2. Just installed: brew install just (macOS) or cargo install just
  3. Workspace setup: Run just setup from the repository root
1. Your First Backtest     Run existing strategy
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2. Collect Market Data     Get more trading pairs
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3. Create New Strategy     Build your own

Quick Reference

Essential Commands

# Start all services
just up

# Stop all services
just down

# Run quality checks
just check

# Run tests
just test

Service Ports

Service Port Description
Backend 8000 API gateway
Data Collection 8002 Market data sync
Strategy Service 8003 Backtesting
MLflow 5001 Experiment tracking

Next Steps

After completing the quickstarts: