MachineTrader™ was designed to serve serious traders who want to automate trading ideas but lack the full-stack programming skills to build their own platforms. It's also incredibly efficient for experienced programmers developing and testing new algorithms.
Core Platform
MachineTrader™ was built using Node-RED, a flow-based development tool for visual programming. The browser-based editor codes automatically as you drag and drop nodes from the palette. Non-programmers build trading algorithms without writing code, while experienced programmers find it many times faster than writing code from scratch.
Node-RED uses a drag-and-drop interface where you connect pre-built nodes to create workflows — no syntax, no debugging, just visual logic. The JavaScript code is written automatically as you build. Flows are deployed to the runtime in a single click.
Trading strategies can be quickly developed using Claude, Gemini, or OpenAI. Simply describe what you want your strategy to do, and AI generates the code for you. It's increasingly easy to use AI models to write Node-RED nodes and JavaScript to power your MachineTrader instances.
Each subscriber receives their own exclusive cloud instance using Kubernetes, which expands according to your unique requirements. Even experienced programmers recognize the limitations of using a personal computer for automated trading. MachineTrader™ gives you data center reliability at a fraction of the hassle and cost of setting up an AWS cloud service.
MachineTrader™ is an independent trading platform that hands trades off to the broker-dealer of your choice through their API. We currently integrate with Alpaca Markets, which offers commission-free trading on 10,000+ U.S. listed securities and low-cost commissions on crypto trades.
Data & Intelligence
We know how critical accurate, reliable, real-time data is to your trading. MachineTrader™ provides prebuilt widgets that import time series data from trusted data suppliers, with powerful charting and popular technical indicators.
Prebuilt widgets import real-time data from Polygon.io and Alpaca Markets, enabling trading in one-minute and one-second increments for equities and cryptos. Includes financial reports and company information for all publicly-traded U.S. companies.
Our headline news feed scans 80+ business publications, providing hundreds of postings per hour with ~4 minute lag time. Proprietary NLP software produces sentiment scores and digital indicators for use with algorithmic trading programs.
30+ FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) reports from the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, providing the latest insight into future inflation rates and other economic indicators.
Charts performance of trading strategies in Live and Paper accounts. Real-time reporting of top and worst performing stocks updated in 5-minute increments throughout the trading day. Reports identify fast-moving stocks outperforming their average trading volumes.
Test your latest ideas with our proprietary MachineTrader™ SuperTest. Your subscription includes access to prewritten trading strategies that have been backtested and run in paper accounts, giving you a head start.
Manage massive amounts of historical data and analyze millions of data points in real-time. Create relationships between data elements to identify potential correlations with equity prices using proprietary feature engineering.
Personal Dashboard
MachineTrader™ provides you a powerful user interface, tracking your current account balances, positions, trades, and strategy performance, along with charts, company financials, news, and reporting from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
{
"id": "flow-momentum-rsi",
"label": "RSI Momentum Strategy",
"nodes": [
{ "type": "market-data", "ticker": "AAPL" },
{ "type": "rsi-indicator", "period": 14 },
{ "type": "trade-executor", "broker": "alpaca" }
],
"wires": [[0,1],[1,2]]
}Sharing & Community
Flows are stored using JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and can be easily duplicated for re-use and sharing. Keep your algorithms private, or share to rapidly build a community of algo traders with a range of coding skills.
Your subscription includes access to prewritten trading strategies that have been backtested and run in paper accounts — giving you ready-made starting points to learn from and customize.
Education
MachineTrader™ offers free training courses designed to teach you how to trade stocks and options algorithmically without writing code.
Comprehensive introduction to Node-RED for automating tasks and integrating APIs. Learn to trade algorithmically without writing code.
Start learning →Step-by-step guide to backtesting your trading strategies using the MachineTrader™ platform and historical data.
Read guide →Explore popular technical indicators including RSI, moving averages, MACD, and more — all available as pre-built nodes in your editor.
Explore →Under the Hood
The lightweight runtime is built on Node.js, taking full advantage of its event-driven, non-blocking model. Cloud architecture uses Kubernetes for automatic scaling.
Start with a 30-day free trial to test the MachineTrader platform. Open a paper account in minutes without depositing any funds.