Astra · Windows 64-bit · MT4 and MT5

Your trading idea, built into a tested EA.

Set the market, the rules and the risk. Astra writes the strategies, tests them on price they never trained on, grades every survivor and sends the one you choose to MetaTrader.

No codingYour rulesTested on unseen priceWindows 64-bitFree to start

Free, today

Your first live deploy is on us.

The free plan includes one live deploy to MT5, for one strategy. No card needed.

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Instrument

Timeframe

3%

Test windows · XAUUSD H1

Train · 2016–2022
Validate
Holdout 🔒
Candidates tested1,824
Passed validation212
Survived the holdout37
AQuiet Heron-12PF 1.36
A-Amber Kestrel-3PF 1.31
B+Calm Ibis-15PF 1.27
BLunar Wren-8PF 1.22
CBold Tern-17PF 1.08
Quiet Heron-12 · Grade AXAUUSD · H1 · daily loss cap 3%

Watch

Your first deploy, start to finish.

Install Astra, run a search and put one strategy on an MT5 chart, all on the free plan.

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Validation report

We publish how our strategies hold up.

Every strategy Astra generates is scored, then re-run on a holdout period it was never optimised on. Here's how each tier fared.

Holdout dataSimulatedNot a guarantee

Sample figures for layout only. Replace with your own validation results before publishing.

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0%
of S-tier strategies stayed profitable on holdout data

S-tier is the top 1% of scores: 1,912 of 186,400 strategies tested.

After you deploy

Astra keeps watching once you're live.

01Starter and up

Live tracking and drift alerts

Sentinel compares each live strategy with the range its testing predicted and tells you when one wanders outside it. Pause, resume or close from one screen.

02Starter and up

Tests a replacement first

Pick a strategy that's slipping and Astra retests your saved backups on recent price. If none of them hold up, nothing is swapped.

03Ultimate

Can make the swap for you

When a live strategy stops behaving like its test, Ultimate can put a tested backup in its place. It acts on results, not on a schedule.

04Pro and up

Your desk in your pocket

Get alerts and ask about your strategies from your phone. Answers come from your own computer, so leave it switched on.

Your EAs run inside MetaTrader, so keep it open on your computer or on a VPS.

Inside a test

One test, from first click to deploy.

Six chapters on one screen. Scroll through, or jump to a chapter.

01Ultimate

Choose strategy styles.

Tell Astra which schools of trading to build from, from breakout to market structure.

02

Set your limits.

Choose a prop-firm preset and the drawdown and daily-loss limits fill in for you. Passing a challenge is never promised.

03

Watch it build.

Candidates are generated and judged in front of you while the survivor count climbs.

04

Checked on unseen price.

Each strategy shows its training, validation and holdout windows on a single chart.

05

Compare the survivors.

Lay any survivor's equity curve over the others to see how they differ.

06

Read the grade, choose what goes live.

Click through your strategies and pick the one to send to MetaTrader.

ASTRAGold momentum · XAUUSD H1● Running
Astra strategy styles: block families such as Quantvex Orderflow, ICT, SMC, Wyckoff, VSA and Harmonics ticked on the left, with the SMC blocks listed on the right.
Astra risk and limits: account size 100,000, risk per trade 0.3%, max total drawdown 10%, max daily loss 3%, a prop-firm preset menu with FTMO, FundedNext and The5ers, and Enforce prop-firm limits ticked.
Building candidates
Generation0 / 20
Tested0
Passed0
Survivors0
Astra equity and test windows for a EURUSD H4 system: in-sample, out-of-sample and blind forward stretches of the equity curve, with trades, net P&L, return, win rate, profit factor, Sharpe and max drawdown for each window.
Astra run complete, winning systems: equity curves of 58 passing genomes, average profit factor 1.41, with the top systems colour-coded and the leader, Genome 7850·C102, marked Fully Validated.
Astra Deploy screen: 59 graded systems listed with checks, score, market, tier, net profit, drawdown, trades, profit factor, win rate and equity, with Genome 6165·C102 selected and ready to deploy to MT5.

Try it on your own market.

The free plan includes one live deploy to MT5, for one strategy.

Every feature

Everything Astra does, shown on screen.

Pick a feature and the monitor shows it.

Start with one free deploy.

Vega · the shared network

Every test makes the next one smarter.

Astra users can pool their anonymised backtest results into Vega. Pro and Ultimate plans can also search with the whole pool.

Anonymised results onlySwitch off any timeLive results shared only with consent
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Share test results with Vega

On. After each run, anonymised outcomes join the shared pool. Your trades, balance and account details stay on your machine.

Your risk

Your limits live inside the EA.

Position caps, drawdown limits and your news rule are compiled into the Expert Advisor itself. If a strategy can't run correctly on MT4, Astra won't deploy it there.

Pro and Ultimate

Prop-firm mode

Load a firm's daily-loss and drawdown rules into the EA, and testing checks for breaches first. Passing a challenge is never promised.

Astra prop-firm settings: account size 100000, risk per trade 0.5%, max total drawdown 10%, max daily loss 5%, the FTMO preset driving the two limits, and Enforce prop-firm limits ticked.
Sample_Strategy.mq5 · risk inputs
// Risk limits compiled into the EA
input double DailyLossLimitPct    = 3.0;   // stop trading for the day
input double TotalDrawdownPct     = 10.0;  // hard stop from peak equity
input double RiskPerTradePct      = 0.5;   // position size from balance
input int    MaxOpenPositions     = 3;
input bool   PauseForNews         = true;
input int    NewsBufferMinutes    = 30;

Illustrative input block. Your EA's limits come from the settings you choose in Astra.

Watch

See your odds of reaching a target.

Enter a challenge's rules and Astra replays history at each risk level to show how often you'd get there. Pro and up.

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Plans

Pay for deploys, not for features.

The search engine and validation are identical on every plan.

Free · £0The same search and validation, plus one live deploy to MT5.
Download free

All prices in GBP. Compare every plan

Auto search · Ultimate · Beta

Give it a goal and a time limit. Astra does the searching.

It searches, tests and grades until the goal is reached or the time runs out, then tells you what it found.

Nothing that touches a live account happens until you approve it.

See Ultimate
The Quantvex home screen with Autonomous mode: pick a goal and Quantvex queues its own tests until it is met, gives up, or the time budget runs out.

One engine

Free runs the same search and tests as Ultimate.

Paid plans add deploys and live tracking. Pro and Ultimate add your phone.

CheckFreeStarterProUltimate
Search depth✓ Same✓ Same✓ Same✓ Same
Test windows✓ Same✓ Same✓ Same✓ Same
Overfitting checks✓ Same✓ Same✓ Same✓ Same
Spread and costs modelled✓ Same✓ Same✓ Same✓ Same

Read this first

Honest answers before you pay

It isn't a signal service.

You choose the market, the rules and the limits. Astra builds and tests what you ask for. It doesn't send trade signals.

No promised results.

Test results are simulated. Live trading can perform worse than any test.

It can't rescue a weak idea.

Some searches end with nothing worth deploying, and that's the system working.

MetaTrader has to keep running.

Your EAs trade inside MetaTrader, so it needs to be open. A VPS keeps it running when your computer is off.

Building versus buying an EA.

A bought EA comes with someone else's rules and someone else's test. With Astra you see your rules and exactly how they were tested. The Strategy Library is there if you want a starting point.

MT4 or MT5.

Paid plans deploy to both. The free plan deploys to MT5. If a strategy can't run correctly on MT4, Astra won't deploy it there.

What you need

Runs on your own computer

  • Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
  • MetaTrader 4 or 5 with any broker
  • An internet connection for searches and Vega
  • A VPS is optional, for keeping EAs running 24/7

With every copy

01

Fourteen languages.Switch the whole app in Settings.

02

Updates itself.New versions install when you open it.

03

The Strategy Library.Browse shared strategies. Withdraw and retest them on Pro and Ultimate.

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The language Astra speaks, across the whole app.

Who builds it

Built by traders who test first.

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FAQ

Common questions

Do I need to know how to code?

No. You pick the market, the rules and the risk. Astra writes and compiles the Expert Advisor.

What's in the free plan?

The same search and validation as the paid plans, plus one live deploy of one strategy to MT5. No card needed.

How does the holdout check work?

Part of the price history is sealed during the search. Each survivor is then tested on that sealed window, which it has never seen, before it gets a grade. It's a simulation, not live trading.

Does it run on Mac?

Astra is currently a Windows 64-bit app. On a Mac you can run it inside a Windows virtual machine or on a Windows VPS.

Is my data shared?

Only if Vega sharing is on, and then only anonymised test outcomes. You can switch it off with one click. Live results are shared only with your consent.

How do I activate a licence key?

Open Astra, go to Settings, then Licence, and paste the key from your purchase email. See how.

Test your own market. Deploy one strategy free.

Download free for Windows

The free plan includes one live deploy to MT5. Paid plans from £29 a month.

  • Free plan, no card. Build, test and make one live deploy before you pay anything.
  • Runs on your own PC. Your MT4 or MT5 account stays with your broker.
  • Prices in GBP. Cancel renewal any time; lifetime is one payment.
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