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Pre-Built Strategies Complete Guide
What this helps you do
This guide shows you how to use Pre-Built Strategies to quickly evaluate rule-based setups that have already been tested on market history. It matters because having instant access to proven strategy behavior helps you focus on opportunity, compare ideas with confidence, and make more informed trading choices without starting from zero each time.
Overview
Pre-Built Strategies give you a simple way to explore trading ideas that already have historical results behind them. Instead of starting from scratch, you can review strategies created by other traders, study how they performed over time, and choose the ones that fit your trading style.
Inside each strategy, you can examine the rules, look at the historic trades, visualize the entries and exits on the chart, and subscribe to strategy alerts so you know when the conditions trigger again. Everything is built from clear rules and real data, which helps you compare opportunities based on actual behavior rather than guesswork.
The goal is to help you make smarter decisions with less searching and give you a reliable starting point whenever you want to explore new setups.
Where Pre-Built Strategies Come From
Pre-Built Strategies originate from the Strategy Builder. When you or another trader create a strategy by selecting studies and setting entry and exit conditions, the platform automatically evaluates how that set of rules would have performed historically, and the strategy becomes part of the shared strategy library inside Wallstreet.io.
Over time, this process has created a large database of strategies with different styles and indicator combinations. Wallstreet.io uses a weighted scoring system to evaluate these strategies and rank their long-term performance. This scoring determines which strategies appear under Top Rated and which ones are listed under Community.
In short, every Pre-Built Strategy began as a rules-based idea from another trader, was automatically tested on past price data, and is now available for you to explore and subscribe to in your own workflow.
How Pre-Built Strategies Work
Every Pre-Built Strategy is a set of rules. These rules tell the platform when a trade should start and when it should end. They are built from the same building blocks you use in the Strategy Builder, such as indicators, interactions and their resulting groups.
Once the rules are defined, Wallstreet.io applies them to historical price data. Any time the entry conditions are met, the platform records a trade. When the exit conditions are met, that trade is closed. Over time, this creates a full history of trades that all follow the same rules.
You can review a strategy from several angles:
Each strategy also has a current status based on how its rules evaluate at the daily close. The platform classifies every strategy as Starting, Active, Ending, or Inactive, and uses this status to drive alerts and live behavior. You will see more detail about how alerts use these states in the Strategy Alerts and How They Work section.
If you want a deeper breakdown of how rules are structured and evaluated, you can review the Strategy Logic Guide. For a detailed explanation of each performance metric, see the View Stats Panel Complete Guide.
Pre-Built Strategy Lifecycle
Understanding the lifecycle of a Pre-Built Strategy helps you see how each part of the feature fits together. This table shows the steps a strategy moves through, from the moment you discover it to the point where it becomes part of your daily trading routine.
You can use this overview to understand how the related guides connect and where each one supports your workflow.
| Lifecycle Stage | What Happens | Related Guide |
| 1. Discovery | You encounter a Pre-Built Strategy for the first time by browsing Top Rated or Community results in the Strategies area. | Find Pre-Built Strategies |
| 2. Evaluation | You check whether the strategy fits your style by reviewing its overview panel, spider chart, trade history, and basic performance behaviors. | Evaluate a Strategy before Subscribing |
| 3. Deep Inspection | If you want to understand the logic behind the strategy, you load it in View Mode under the Strategy Builder to see its exact entry and exit rules. | Load, View, and Edit a Strategy |
| 4. Subscription | You subscribe to the strategy so it becomes part of your personal workflow and adds itself to your Subscribed list. | Subscribe to a Pre-Built Strategy |
| 5. Alerts | Once subscribed, you receive Starting, Active, and Ending alerts based on the strategy’s daily evaluation at the close. | How Strategy Alerts Work |
| 6. Daily Use | You integrate the strategy into your routine by reviewing its alerts, day count, and behavior alongside chart context and other radars. | Fit a Strategy into Your Daily Routine |
| Lifecycle Stage | What Happens | Related Guide |
| 1. Discovery | You encounter a Pre-Built Strategy for the first time by browsing Top Rated or Community results in the Strategies area. | Find Pre-Built Strategies |
| 2. Evaluation | You check whether the strategy fits your style by reviewing its overview panel, spider chart, trade history, and basic performance behaviors. | Evaluate a Strategy before Subscribing + How Strategy Profile Chart Works |
| 3. Deep Inspection | If you want to understand the logic behind the strategy, you load it in View Mode under the Strategy Builder to see its exact entry and exit rules. | Load, View, and Edit a Strategy |
| 4. Subscription | You subscribe to the strategy so it becomes part of your personal workflow and adds itself to your Subscribed list. | Subscribe to a Pre-Built Strategy |
| 5. Alerts | Once subscribed, you receive Starting, Active, and Ending alerts based on the strategy’s daily evaluation at the close. | How Strategy Alerts Work |
| 6. Daily Use | You integrate the strategy into your routine by reviewing its alerts, day count, and behavior alongside chart context and other radars. | Fit a Strategy into Your Daily Routine |
Where to Find Pre-Built Strategies
You can explore Pre-Built Strategies inside the Strategies area of the platform. This section gives you access to both the highest scoring strategies and the full list of community-created ideas.
Within this area you can switch between Top Rated, which highlights strategies with the strongest historical scores, and Community, which shows the wider library of strategies created by traders across the platform. From there, you can open any strategy to study its rules, review its performance data, view its trades on the chart, and decide whether you want to subscribe to it.
For step-by-step instructions on locating and filtering strategies, see Find Pre-Built Strategies.
Subscribing to Pre-Built Strategies
Subscribing to a strategy tells the platform that you want this strategy to be part of your personal workflow. When you subscribe, the strategy is added to your Subscriptions list, and Wallstreet.io begins tracking its daily behavior on your behalf.
Subscribing is also what enables strategy alerts. Only the strategies you subscribe to will generate notifications when their rules move into Starting or Ending states. This keeps your alerts focused on the setups you care about rather than everything that exists in the strategy library.
You can unsubscribe at any time if a strategy no longer fits your focus. Over time, your subscribed list becomes a small set of models you rely on regularly, instead of a large pool of ideas you are only browsing.
Strategy Alerts and How They Work
Strategy alerts are designed to notify you when the conditions of a strategy change. Since every strategy is built from clear entry and exit rules, the platform can evaluate those rules at the end of each trading day and determine whether a new trade is beginning, continuing, or ending.
Wallstreet.io calculates strategy conditions using the daily closing price. This keeps the evaluations consistent and closely aligned with the historical backtests you see in the performance results. Once the platform processes the daily close, each strategy will fall into one of the four possible states: Starting, Active, Ending, or Inactive.
Alerts are sent when a strategy moves into a meaningful state:
The entry conditions are newly met today. A Starting alert tells you that the strategy is beginning a new trade, matching the behavior shown in its historical results.
The strategy remains in an ongoing trade. You will continue to see the day count increase, but Active does not generate additional alerts unless the strategy transitions to Ending.
The exit conditions are met today. An Ending alert lets you know the active trade is closing based on the strategy’s rules.
Neither the entry nor the exit conditions are met today. Inactive means the strategy is not currently in a trade and did not generate a new signal at the close.
Because alerts are tied to the strategy’s daily evaluation, they are sent once the platform has processed the day’s conditions. This keeps alerts aligned with the logic behind the backtests, which also rely on end-of-day data.
Subscribing to a strategy is what enables alerts. When you subscribe, you are telling the platform that this strategy is part of your workflow and you want to be notified whenever its rules trigger a new trade or bring an existing one to a close. This helps you stay aligned with the strategy’s behavior without needing to manually check it every day.
It is still important to confirm what is happening on the chart before making any trading decisions. Markets can move quickly, and real-time price action may differ from the end-of-day conditions used in the backtesting model. For this reason, many traders also use chart shading, recent performance, and market context to support their decision-making. Alerts simply keep you aware of when the strategy’s rules are active.
Things to Keep in Mind
Pre-Built Strategies are based on historical backtests that use the daily closing price. This keeps the results consistent but also means intraday price movement, gaps, and news events can create differences between the backtest and your live trades.
Strategies do not predict future prices or guarantee results. They show how a specific set of rules has behaved in the past so you can decide whether that behavior fits your risk tolerance and trading style. We recommend you combine Pre-Built Strategies with chart review, market context, and other Opportunity Radars inside Wallstreet.io to build confidence in your decisions.