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TradAI Quickstarts

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

New to TradAI?

Follow the Onboarding Guide for a structured 2-hour path from setup to productivity.

Available Guides

Guide Time Description
Your First Backtest 2 min Run a strategy backtest end-to-end
Create a New Strategy 5 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. Dev environment set up: Follow Setup (includes uv, just, and just setup)
graph TD
    A["1. Your First Backtest<br/>Run existing strategy"] --> B["2. Collect Market Data<br/>Get more trading pairs"]
    B --> C["3. Create New Strategy<br/>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 (host) / 5000 (container) Experiment tracking

Next Steps

After completing the quickstarts: