Every card you save comes to rest here — and the shelf is the one place you can set a strategy's original backtest beside how it has held up since, any day you care to check.
Whenever a card earns a Save Strategy, it comes to rest on your My strategies shelf — each strategy a compact card carrying its name and its core stats. On the Free plan the shelf holds 5. This is the surface you'll actually touch day to day, and everything below is something the shelf lets you do without ever spending a credit.
Look at any card and you'll find a full-width toggle running across it — Backtest on one side, Since Launch on the other. Tap it and the card's stat grid swaps instantly, with no reload: gold for the backtest figures, teal for the since-launch ones. The big CAGR cell flips to a cumulative Return, the other cells trade their values, and the period line underneath swaps its date range. Same strategy, two views — how it did on the history it was built on, and how it's held up on the candles that arrived after.
Every card wears the toggle. A strategy only has something to show on the other side once it has live stats, at least one closed trade, and a finite return — until then, flipping to Since Launch simply shows em-dashes where a record will grow. Since Launch is a daily forward-simulation replayed on real candles — not live trading, and no real orders.
Above the shelf sits a small toolbar. The search box filters your cards as you type — by name, symbol, direction, or timeframe — so SOL, short, or 15m narrows a crowded shelf in a keystroke. It's all local: no server round-trips, no waiting on a spinner.
Beside it, a master toggle flips every card between Backtest and Since Launch at once — handy for reading the whole shelf in one mode. It stays in sync with the per-card toggles, so switching a single card updates the master, and throwing the master carries them all.
Click any card and its full report opens exactly as it was — for free, as many times as you like. One thing changes: because it's yours now, the report reframes from BACKTEST to MY STRATEGY, retitles itself to the name you gave it, and hides the credit counter — there's nothing to spend here. The Since Launch stats attach fresh each time you open it, so the record you read is current to the day. And when you're ready to take it live, a Connect to a signal button at the bottom of the reopened report jumps straight to the signal-creation screen with this strategy already selected.
Need to free a slot? On a reopened card you own, the save button reads Delete Strategy instead — with a confirm step, because deletion is permanent. And if you hit your plan's shelf limit while saving something new, a Collection Full dialog lets you remove one card and save the new one on the spot, without losing the report you just ran.
For a cell-by-cell tour of everything on that report — the return, the grid, the badges, the chart — see How to Read the Backtest Report.
Two greyed labels can appear on a card, and both mean the strategy has stopped moving — for different reasons.
Retired — no longer updated means the strategy was taken out of the working set — and that isn't an arbitrary call. A strategy is retired when its live record breaks the promise of its own backtest: a drawdown deeper than the backtest ever showed, sustained losses over a full sample of trades, or no trading at all. Its final record is frozen in place, not deleted and not hidden — the card stays on your shelf exactly as it last stood, still there to reopen and read — and if you'd saved it, a note lands in your mailbox the day it happens.
Stopped — underperformed since launch means the engine stopped recomputing the strategy after it underperformed for a sustained stretch. Again the final record is kept, never erased — and if you'd saved it, a note lands in your mailbox, so you hear it from us rather than noticing a number that quietly quit moving.
Every figure on the shelf — backtest or Since Launch alike — is hypothetical performance on past data, replayed in simulation, not live trading. It's not a prediction, and nothing here is financial advice. A record that held up for months can still turn tomorrow. Always do your own research.