Getting started
Create your TICPOZ account, verify your email, tour the dashboard, and ship your first strategy in under five minutes.
TICPOZ is a hosted environment for building and running algorithmic trading strategies on your own broker account. You bring the broker connection; we provide the editor, the backtester, the AI co-pilot, and the always-on engine that ticks every fifteen seconds.
This page walks through the first five minutes — account creation, email verification, and the five core surfaces of the dashboard. By the end you will know where everything lives.
1. Create your account
Sign up at ticpoz.com/signup with an email and password. Passwords must be at least twelve characters. They are protected server-side with a modern, memory-hard hashing function (per-user salt plus a server-side secret), so the raw value is never stored or transmitted after first submission.
A verification email arrives within thirty seconds. Click the link to activate the account. Until verification completes, you can read documentation but cannot connect a broker or deploy strategies.
2. Tour the dashboard
After verification you land on the dashboard. There are five core surfaces in the left rail. Knowing what each one does is the entire mental model of the product.
Dashboard
Your home view. Live PnL across every running droplet, a feed of the last hundred events (heartbeats, signals, trades, errors), and shortcuts to recent strategies. Use this as the first place you look every morning.
Strategies
Where you author, import, or buy a StrategySpec. Each strategy is a JSON document describing entries, exits, risk and filters. The Strategies page lists every spec you own, alongside their last backtest summary.
Backtest
Run a strategy against real broker tick data with realistic spread and slippage. The backtester supports walk-forward validation and exposes the trades list, equity curve, and the diagnostic counters Quant-AI uses to detect dead clauses. See Backtesting for the full guide.
Droplets
A droplet is a single strategy running live on a single broker account. Create one from any spec, pick the account, set risk caps, then start. The engine assigns it a dedicated IPv4 and begins the 15-second tick loop. Manage state — running, paused, stopped, archived — from this page.
Terminal
The live console. Per-droplet streaming price feed, tail of the worker log, signal evaluation trace, and a kill switch. Use this when something looks off and you want to watch the engine think in real time.
3. The first five minutes
A reasonable first session looks like this:
- Verify your email and finish the two-factor setup if you opted in at signup.
- Open Strategies → New and either describe what you want in the Quant-AI chat or paste a spec you already trust.
- Move to Backtest and run the spec over the last twelve months on your intended symbol. Read the equity curve and the dead-clause report.
- Connect a broker on the Broker setup page. cTrader uses OAuth; MT5 uses our signed Expert Advisor bridge.
- Open Droplets → New, pick the spec and the account, set the daily drawdown cap, and start. Watch the first signals arrive in the Terminal.
4. Where to go next
- Broker setup — connect cTrader or MT5 and understand the dedicated IPv4.
- Strategy spec reference — the JSON schema, every indicator, the clause tree.
- AI builder — how to prompt Quant-AI well and how to debug dead clauses.
- Backtesting — walk-forward validation and the most common analytical mistakes.
- Deployment — the droplet lifecycle, the tick loop, and the kill switch.
5. Getting help
Email [email protected] for product questions. For suspected security issues, contact [email protected] — see Security and our full security posture for what is in scope.