Your First Strategy

Open the Strategy Builder

Go to the Strategy Builder. If you have no strategies yet, you see an empty state with a Create your first button: click it to open a new strategy on the canvas. The canvas is where you compose a strategy as nodes joined by connections, and where Signac works alongside you.

A new strategy on the canvas. Signac is ready on the right to build it with you.

Build your first strategy with Signac

The fastest path is to describe what you want and let Signac build it. Click Ask Signac on the canvas to open the chat, then state your idea in plain language. Signac reads your canvas, adds and wires the nodes, and fills in the conditions.

Try a prompt like this:

Enter a long on BTC when the 12-period EMA crosses above the 24-period EMA, size it at 5% of my balance, and close it at a 5% take-profit or a 3% stop-loss.

Signac turns that into a working flow on the canvas: an Indicator node that watches the EMA crossover, connected to a Buy Order node that opens the position and holds the exit. If anything is ambiguous, it asks before it builds. Everything it does stays visible, and you can undo any edit. For the full picture of what Signac can do, read Building with Signac.

Prefer to build by hand? Add an Indicator node, set one condition inside it (for example, EMA(12) > EMA(24)), then connect it to an Order node and configure the side, size, and exit. One Indicator joined to one Order is a complete strategy.

The numbers above are an example, not a recommendation.

Check the nodes

Before you let a strategy run, analyze the trading logic to make sure it does what you want it to. The funds are test funds today, but reading a strategy before it runs is the habit that protects real funds on mainnet. The canvas is the exact record of what will run, so inspect it the way you would inspect a position before you put it on.

• Open the Indicator node and confirm the condition matches your intent: the right feed, the right comparison, the right threshold.
• Open the Order node and confirm the side, the size, the leverage, and the exit, whether that is a take-profit and stop-loss or a Trigger Formula for an indicator-based close.

If it reads the way you meant it, you are ready to test it. If a single field surprises you, fix it now.

Backtest it

Click Run Backtest in the toolbar to replay the strategy against historical market data. A Backtest Result node appears on the canvas with the strategy’s simulated performance and a list of fills. Use it to catch logic errors and to compare setups across different market conditions.

Deploy it

When the strategy holds up, click Deploy in the toolbar. The builder checks the strategy, registers any price feeds your conditions need (an oracle is the trusted source that reports an asset’s price to the system), and submits it under your signed-in session, with no extra wallet prompt. Once it is accepted, the strategy appears in your dashboard with an Active status.

Live means the strategy runs on its own. It reads the market, acts when your conditions are met, places the order against your Hyperliquid balance, and manages the exit, all inside the limits you set, without you at the screen. The orders route to Hyperliquid, where they are actually filled and settled (Hyperliquid testnet while Synchronicity is in testnet, mainnet later). You can open the strategy in read-only mode on the canvas at any time. To change an active strategy, cancel it, edit it, and deploy again. See Deploy a Strategy for the full flow.

Watch how it behaves

A deployed strategy is not a finished one. It is a thesis now running on a live exchange. The live result is the only test that counts. Open it from the dashboard, follow where it sits in the flow, and read its PnL (profit and loss) as it works.

This is where the loop closes: deploy small, watch what the market does to your logic, and let what you learn shape the next version. Encode, test, refine. Monitor a Live Strategy covers what the dashboard shows and how to read it.