Automated Strategy Development
Your rules, automated. Tested before they touch your account.
GGT Risk Management turns the way you already trade into an automated strategy — written down, coded, stress-tested and connected to the execution platform you choose, with risk limits built into every one. Your rules. Your account. Our engineering.
What every strategy ships with
- 01A written specification — every entry, exit and filter in plain English, signed off before a line of code is written.
- 02A test report — out-of-sample results with commissions and slippage included, and pass/fail criteria agreed up front.
- 03Built-in risk limits — position sizing, daily loss limits and a drawdown circuit breaker enforced by the code itself.
- 04A kill switch — one documented way to flatten and stop, plus alerts when live behaviour drifts from the test.
The problem
Most automated strategies fail before the first live trade.
Not because the idea was bad — because the backtest was lying, or the automation was never tested the way it would actually run.
A script that peeks at the closing price before the bar has closed. A test with no commissions and perfect fills. Parameters tuned until one year of history looks spectacular. An alert that fires twice, a webhook that silently drops, a position that never flattens at the session close.
Every one of those is an engineering failure, and every one of them can be caught before real money is involved. That is the work we do.
What we do
Four ways we work
Bring an idea you trade by hand, or a strategy that already exists and is not behaving. Most people start with a build or an audit.
Strategy build
Your rules, turned into a written specification and then into code that does exactly what the specification says.
- Rule specification
- Strategy coding
- Position sizing logic
- Session and time filters
Testing & validation
A test process designed to find the problems, not to produce a pretty equity curve.
- In- and out-of-sample testing
- Costs and slippage modelling
- Stress and sensitivity tests
- Written test report
Automation & deployment
Connected to the automated execution platform you choose, then paper-traded before it ever sees real money.
- Alert and order wiring
- Paper-trading period
- Go-live checklist
- Kill switch and failure alerts
Strategy audit
A fixed-scope review of an automated strategy you already run — or are about to — with a written list of what to fix.
- Look-ahead and repaint checks
- Overfitting review
- Live-versus-test comparison
- Prioritised fix list
How a build runs
No black box, no open-ended retainer.
Every build follows the same five steps, and you know the scope and the price before step two.
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Discovery call
Thirty minutes. How you trade today, what you want automated, which platform and broker you use. If automation is the wrong answer for what you do, we say so on this call.
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Written specification
Every rule — entries, exits, sizing, filters, limits — written in plain English with no room for interpretation. Nothing gets coded until you sign it off.
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Build and test
The strategy is coded to the specification and tested against data it was not built on, with realistic costs. You get the test report, including the parts that did not go well.
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Paper trading
The strategy runs on your platform with no real money for an agreed period, so we can confirm that live behaviour matches the test before anything is at stake.
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Go live and monitor
You switch it on in your own account. Scheduled check-ins compare live results against the test, so drift shows up as data instead of as a bad month.
Principles
What we believe
Survival is the strategy
Automation removes hesitation, not risk. A strategy without hard limits just loses money faster and more consistently than you could by hand. Every build ships with its limits in the code.
Tested beats clever
A simple strategy that survives honest testing is worth more than a brilliant one that only works on the data it was tuned on. We would rather show you a failed test than a flattering one.
If you cannot explain it, do not run it
Every rule in your strategy should be one you understand and agree with. You own the specification, you decide whether it goes live, and you can switch it off at any time.
Start here
Book a strategy call
Thirty minutes, no cost, no pitch deck. Tell us how you trade and what you want to automate — or send the strategy that is not behaving — and we will tell you what it would take. If the honest answer is "do not automate this", that is a fine outcome too.