Trading platform · Financial engineering
Everything a trading desk runs on. Including the engineers.
QuantIDE is the platform for researching, testing and automating your strategies, with AI that writes the code for you. When you want more, financial engineers build it with you, inside the same app.
People who answer to you. Every hour accounted for. Nothing you build ever leaves your hands.
- One platform
- Research, testing, automation and broker connections
- Real engineers
- An answer to every request within one business day
- All yours
- Every line of code, every server, every idea
- Private
- Runs on your computer, under your keys
Sound familiar?
The trade takes seconds. The work around it takes the week.
Positions to reconcile, weights to rebalance, risk to check, reports to write, results to review. Whether it is one account or forty, most of that work is still done by hand, by careful people with better things to do, and every hour of it is an hour of delay, of error and of decisions made on yesterday’s numbers.
- Positions pulled together from every account, one export at a time.
- A rebalance that waits for somebody’s free afternoon.
- Risk you only see clearly once the report is finished.
- Rules followed perfectly, until the pressure is on.
- Mon 07:10Positions gathered from four accountsby spreadsheet
- Mon 09:31Entry signalmissed · in a meeting
- Tue 16:30Rebalance to target weightspostponed
- Wed 12:00Exposure checkcopied by hand
- Thu 18:45Weekly performance report3 hours, again
- Fri 21:00Review of the week’s tradesskipped
The other side of your trade
The market is run by engineers. Now you have yours.
Most of what you trade against was built, tested and watched over by teams of engineers. That is not a reason to step back. It is the clearest reason yet to trade the way they do.
$18bn
a year on technology, planned by a single bank for 2025.6
What the other side does differently
- 01
Know the real number
A professional desk knows its returns to the decimal. In one study, individual investors could not reliably say what their own had been.7
- 02
Test before you risk
Across fifteen years of every day trade in Taiwan, fewer than 1% of day traders earned reliable returns after fees.2 An idea proven on paper first is how the other side stays in the other 99.
- 03
Rules that hold
The US households that traded most often trailed the market by 6.5 points a year.4 Software does not chase, hesitate or trade to get even.
It was never a gap in talent. It was a gap in engineering, and it just closed.
What if every idea you had
came back working?
That is QuantIDE. Write down what you want in plain English. A financial engineer picks it up, builds it inside your QuantIDE app and sends it back tested, explained and yours, with an answer within one business day.
What you get
A platform built for serious trading. Engineers built in.
The QuantIDE platform
Research, testing, automation and connections to your broker, in one app on your own computer. Describe what you want and its AI writes, tests and runs the code.
Financial engineers on every request
Strategies, fixes, automations, broker connections, explanations. You describe it; they build it, test it and walk you through it. No more weekends lost to one bug.
An account of every hour
Each request comes back with what was done, when and how long it took, against the estimate you agreed before it started.
All of it, yours
The code, the results and any server we set up belong to you. Trade what you understand, and keep it if you ever leave.
Opening range breakout
Practice account · runs every trading day
Status
Running
Next run
09:30
Alerts
On
Your request
Pause everything if the day’s loss passes 2%, and text me when it does.
Built for an audience of one
The software no vendor would build just for you.
Trading platforms are made for everyone, so they fit no one exactly. Ask for the dashboard you keep sketching, the calculator you rebuild in a spreadsheet every week, or one screen for every account you hold. It is built inside QuantIDE, opens in its own window if you like, and it is yours.
Where my risk actually sits, this morning
Largest position
9.4%
Beta to index
1.12
Open risk
2.1%
Limit used
68%
Options roll planner
My trade journal, scored by setup
Every account, one screen
Illustrations of the kind of tool clients ask for. Figures are invented.
Start anywhere
Bring the thing you have been putting off.
Big or small, rough or precise, you do not need a plan before you ask. These are the kinds of requests traders bring. Larger builds are quoted before any work begins.
New request
Turn the rules I trade by hand into something that runs without me.
New request
I keep breaking my own rules. Make them impossible to break.
New request
Tell me honestly whether this idea holds up, before I put money behind it.
New request
Have my morning report waiting for me before the open.
New request
Tell me what my last year of trades actually says about my trading.
New request
Connect this to my broker, and let me watch it on a practice account first.
How it works
From “I wish” to “it is running.”
- 1
Say it your way
Describe what you want the way you would explain it to a friend. Attach whatever you have.
- 2
Agree what it takes
Your engineer asks the right questions and tells you, before starting, how long it should take.
- 3
Watch it come together
The work arrives in your QuantIDE app, explained, with a full account of what was done.
- 4
Keep going
Come back with the next idea. Every request starts from everything that came before.
Total transparency
You will never wonder what you paid for.
Anyone who has hired a developer knows the feeling: a vague update, an invoice, and no idea what actually happened. Here, nothing happens out of sight.
- A promise before the work
- You agree what a request should take before anyone starts. No open-ended meters.
- The whole story after it
- Every request comes back with an account of what was done, when, and how long it took.
- You pay for what was used
- Hours come out of your allowance only as the work happens, never in advance.
Request · Example
DeliveredGet my strategy running on its own every trading day, and tell me if anything goes wrong.
Trading Systems Engineer · scoped before work began
- Mon 09:150.5 hWent through your strategy with you and agreed what “running on its own” should mean.
- Mon 10:001.0 hFixed why it stopped after a restart: it was losing track of open positions.
- Mon 13:201.0 hScheduled it for every trading day on a server in your name, on a practice account first.
- Mon 15:000.5 hAdded phone alerts for every fill, and for anything that stops it.
- Tue 09:400.5 hWalked you through pausing it and reading its daily summary.
An illustration of the format, not a client’s request.
What comes back
It was never about the code. It is the hours you get back.
Every request ends in something that changes your trading day. A few of them.
01 · Automation
Your morning report, ready before the open.
The checks you do by hand every morning, done for you and delivered where you will read them.
- —Built and scheduled
- —Sent to your phone or inbox
- —Changed whenever you ask
07:45 · Pre-market report
Illustrations of the formats, not client work.
Who it is for
For the trader who has outgrown going it alone.
You take this seriously. You have put in the screen time, the reading, the late nights. What you need now is not another course or another indicator. It is leverage: the kind every professional desk already has.
You have rules you believe in
And you want to know, honestly, whether they hold up before real money stands behind them.
You trade well, until the pressure is on
Your rules are sound. Following them at the open, on a losing day, with money moving, is the hard part.
You are done doing the morning by hand
The scanning, the checking, the spreadsheets. Hours you would rather spend thinking about the market.
You are tied to the screen
Your strategy only works when you are watching. You would like it to work when you are not.
Managing capital for a family or a fund? How desks and family offices work with us
QuantIDE is engineering and explanation. It is not a signal service, does not manage accounts, and does not promise that any strategy will be profitable.
Private by design
Your edge never leaves the building.
Platforms that host your strategy can see your strategy. QuantIDE is held the way serious capital holds its research: privately.
Your hardware
Projects, research and strategies run on your machine, or on a server in your name that our engineers manage. Nothing runs on ours.
Your keys
Your broker and data passwords and keys stay on your own computer and are never sent to us. The only outside connection is the AI service you choose, and only for the work you give it.
Your code
Everything an engineer or the AI builds is code you own, saved in your own project. No black box, no lock-in, no licence on your own edge.
Who you work with
Real engineers. In your corner.
Behind QuantIDE is Blackshore Agency, a practice of engineers who build trading research, automation and execution for a living. They work inside your QuantIDE, to your standards, and they explain as they go. When they are done, it is yours.
- An answer by tomorrow
- Every request gets a reply, or a clear plan, within one business day.
- One thing at a time, done right
- Each request is finished before the next begins, so nothing is left half built.
- Scope before larger work
- If a request outgrows your plan, you get a quote first. Nothing is billed you did not agree to.
- People, with tools
- Engineers use the same AI tools you have, and an engineer reviews every deliverable before it reaches you.
Servers, set up and run for you
We do not host anything. When a strategy needs to run around the clock, engineers set up a server in your name, migrate your work to it and manage it for you. You pay the provider directly and own every part of it.
Access you grant, and can take back
Engineers work only where you let them, and every change they make is recorded. How access works
Room to grow
Your first strategy. Your hundredth. The same team.
Most traders change tools every time they get more serious, and leave what they built behind. Here nothing resets. Start with a few hours a week and grow into a desk running a fund’s book, with the same engineers, the same workspace and every line of history intact.
Plans
Build it yourself. Or never build alone again.
QuantIDE
$99/month
The QuantIDE app on its own, for traders who build: describe what you want, and its AI writes, tests and runs it on your own computer.
- The full QuantIDE app
- AI that writes and tests code for you
- Connects to brokers and data providers
- Runs on your own computer
- Cancel anytime
QuantIDE + Engineering
$199/month
Everything in QuantIDE, plus Blackshore Agency engineers in your workspace: a reply within one business day, one active request at a time, and larger work quoted before it starts. Choose the roles and the weekly hours.
1 · Who you need
Quant Researcher: research, backtests, risk and portfolio analysis.
2 · Hours a week
Analyst · 2 hours
Your desk: Quant Researcher, 2 hours a week. That's 5% of a full-time hire.
- Capped weekly
- Your hours refill every week, so the invoice never surprises you. Unused hours don’t roll over.
- 5-hour sessions
- Engineers work in sessions of up to 5 hours, so large requests move steadily through your week.
- Estimated first
- Every request is scoped in hours before work starts, and drawn down only as engineers log time.
Questions
What clients ask first.
Do I need to know Python?
No. Bring the question, the rules or the idea as they are; your engineer turns them into requirements and a plan. If you want to learn the code as it is written, they will explain it as far as you want to go. If you would rather not, you get a clear account of what was built and how to use it.
Will you build an entire trading system for me?
Larger builds, such as a complete system with broker connectivity and monitoring, are scoped and quoted separately before any work starts. Within the engineering plan, requests are worked one at a time, and you are told before a request grows beyond it.
What do the plans cost?
There are two. QuantIDE on its own is $99 a month. QuantIDE with engineering is priced by the roles and weekly hours you choose, shown in Plans above. Both can be cancelled anytime.
How do I see what the hours were spent on?
Every request comes back with an itemized log: what was done, when, and how long it took, against the estimate agreed before work started. Hours are drawn from your weekly allowance only as engineers log them.
What happens when I outgrow my plan?
You move up, and nothing else changes. More hours and more roles join the same workspace, with the same engineers and all the history so far. When the work becomes a fund or a family office, it continues as a partner engagement with the people who built the rest.
Can I learn while you help?
Yes. Every deliverable comes with a written explanation, and you can ask your engineer to walk you through any part of it in your workspace, using your own project rather than a generic lesson.
Do you host our strategies?
No. Everything runs on your machine. When a strategy needs to run around the clock, our engineers set up a server in your name, migrate the work to it and manage it. You pay the provider directly and own it outright.
Who owns the work?
You do. Everything built for you is code you own, saved in your own project, any server we set up is in your name, and the IP is yours.
What happens if I cancel?
Your code, results and servers stay where they are, because they were always yours. Engineering access ends with the plan, and anything we were managing is handed back to you.
Do you provide trading signals or guarantee results?
No. We build, test and explain what you ask for. A working implementation or a good backtest does not establish that a strategy will be profitable, and every trading decision and every account stays with you. Nothing we deliver is investment advice.