Strategy Marketplace

The Strategy Marketplace lives in Skill Factory → Strategy Marketplace. It is the easiest way to start trading on Firedrake: instead of building a strategy from scratch, you pick a ready-made one that experienced traders have shared publicly, copy it to your own account, and launch it.

This page is written for complete beginners. If you have never configured a bot before, you can still get a working strategy running by following the three steps below.

Why use it

Building a futures strategy by hand means understanding bot settings, safety-order grids, trading pairs, price limits and risk management. That is a lot to learn before your first trade.

The marketplace removes that barrier. A trader who already did that work can publish their strategy together with its real performance. You copy an exact, identical replica in a couple of clicks — no manual configuration required.

Strategy status — honest, not hidden

Any strategy a trader chooses to publish is listed — a card is not hidden just because the strategy is switched off or has little history. Instead every card shows its honest status, and you decide for yourself:

• 🟢 Live — the author is running this strategy right now.
• 🟠 Not running — the author has switched the strategy (or its bot) off. Its past track record still stands; it simply isn't trading on their side at the moment.
• 🔵 No track record — fewer than 10 closed deals, so there is no proven history to judge it by yet.

A strategy the author deletes is removed from the marketplace entirely (its link is invalidated) — you never see a "deleted" card.

You can copy any listed strategy regardless of status: a copy always comes from the snapshot taken when the link was created, so it works even while the author has the strategy paused. When you copy a Not running or No track record card, a short caution appears first so the choice is a conscious one. Use the Live only, With track record, Verified only and exchange (Binance / Bybit) filters at the top to narrow the list to what you trust.

What you see on a strategy card

The card itself keeps only the essentials — status, exchange, price, the ROI headline, rating and the trader — with a Details button that opens the full picture: every metric below, its live activity (open deals now, deals in the last 24h/7d, days actually traded — so you can tell whether it is really trading), a Risk profile button (per-bot figures and a recommended deposit in three tiers), how copiers did, and the description. The numbers are the original author's real results on their own account, counted only from deals made while the published settings were in force — see How the figures are counted below:

• Workability score (0–100) — a single rating that combines the strategy's ROI, how the people who copied it actually did, its win rate, how active it has been in the last 30 days, how long it has been running, and how many users have already copied it. Higher is generally better. Two kinds of card are pushed to the bottom of the list whatever their score: ones whose copiers are collectively losing money, and ones where the author's own track record is negative.
• ROI — the strategy's percentage return: its total PnL measured against the average balance of the account over the counted period, so deposits and withdrawals during the track record are taken into account rather than a single figure from day one. The base is never lower than the capital the published configuration needs, so a strategy run on less money than it requires cannot post a percentage no copier could repeat. This makes profit comparable between strategies regardless of deposit size (a +264% ROI means much more than a raw dollar amount on its own).
• Total profit — the author's cumulative result in USDT (can be positive or negative).
• Avg PnL / trade — the average result of one deal (total PnL ÷ number of deals); can be negative. A quick sense of how much a single trade typically makes.
• Verified trader — a trust badge for sustained, active trading. It is granted automatically when the author had at least 10 strategy deals (opened by a strategy and closed by a limit order — manual deals and manual closes don't count) in each of the last 6 calendar months, or when the team verifies them. A single month that falls short (or has no deals) means no badge — an Unverified trader caution badge shows instead. The status is re-checked daily, so a trader who stops trading actively loses the badge. Anyone can publish; the badge only tells you whether a proven, ongoing track record stands behind the author.
• Win rate — the share of the strategy's deals that closed in profit.
• Deals (30d) / Deals (total) — how many deals it has made recently and overall.
• Running — how long the strategy has been live.
• Version — which published configuration the card is on, and when that configuration went up (Version 2 · updated 14.08.2026). The number rises only when the author republishes the link with changed settings; a rename, or a re-issued link carrying the same settings, does not count.
• Copied by — how many users have already imported it (social proof).
• Risk profile — position side (Long/Short), leverage and the number of safety orders, so you can judge how aggressive it is.
• Price — either Free, or a one-time cost in FDC set by the author.
• Exchange — Binance or Bybit. A strategy can only be copied to an account on the same exchange.
• Tandem — some cards carry a Tandem badge. A tandem is a pair of mirror strategies (one Long + one Short) that are meant to run together; the card is a single entry for the pair, and its figures — first order, bot volume, profit, win rate — are the combined total of both legs. Copying a tandem imports both strategies at once, and you should enable both for it to work as intended.
• How copiers did — once a strategy has been copied, the card shows how the people who copied it actually did: how many copied it, how many have really traded it, and their combined real PnL (which can be negative — a strategy can lose money). This is the most honest signal: copy counts and reviews can be inflated, but real copier results are hard to fake — a strategy copied by many yet traded by none is a warning sign.
• Description — an optional note the author wrote about the strategy; open it from the 📄 Description link on the card. You can also report a card with the 🚩 button (choose a reason — inappropriate name/description/review, misleading, scam, other) if something looks wrong; it goes to the platform team, and the card stays visible until they review it.
• ⚠ External hedge — this card's take-profit is switched off whenever a system outside Firedrake hedges the position. The author's track record was earned with that system helping, and the marketplace can neither see it, control it nor verify what it did. If you copy the card you get the strategy but not that system, so your results may differ drastically from the author's — and a take-profit that switches off with nothing hedging behind it adds risk. Because the figures are not the strategy's own, such a card has its ROI hidden, that ROI is left out of its score, and the card is shown at the end of the list. Tap the badge for the full explanation; you are still free to copy it.
• Live / Running other settings / Not running — the card's status answers one question: is the author trading what this card offers, right now? A green Live means yes — the strategy is running on their account and their current settings match the published ones exactly. ⚠ Running other settings means the author is still trading, but has edited the settings since publishing, so the track record here was earned by the earlier settings and is not what you would receive now — review carefully before copying. Not running means the author has switched the strategy off; its past record still stands.

Your result will differ. The numbers are the author's — earned on their account, with their deposit size and their timing. Your own outcome depends on your account size, your settings and market conditions. Treat the card as a track record, not a promise.

You can re-order the list by Workability score, Most copied, or Newest. Whichever order you choose, three kinds of card are moved to the bottom: those whose copiers are collectively in the red, those whose author is down on the money, and those that lean on an external hedging system. Cards nobody has copied yet are left exactly where their score puts them. Nothing is hidden — you can still open and copy any of them.

How the figures are counted

A card's figures come only from deals the author made while the settings shown were published. Publishing freezes the configuration into a snapshot; each deal is then checked against the snapshot in force when it opened — 50 parameters covering both the bot settings and the strategy's entry logic. Deals made after a change the author never republished are left out.

Three consequences worth knowing:

• Figures add up across all published versions, not only the current one: a card on version 4 still carries what versions 1–3 earned while they were published.
• The card states how much of the history qualified (“1,200 of 5,000 deals made with the published settings”). If nothing qualifies it shows No history under these settings and hides the ROI.
• Publishing is not retroactive beyond the first time. The first publication credits earlier history made with that same configuration; every later republication counts from its own date onward, so deals made on settings that were never published never enter the statistics.

Position sizing — the first order amount and the deposit percentage — is not treated as a change of strategy: adapting size to your own capital is expected.

How the workability score is calculated

The workability score is a single number from 0 to 100 that helps you compare strategies at a glance. A higher score is generally better. It combines up to six things about the strategy, each with a different weight:

• Profitability (30%). The strategy's ROI. Only a positive return earns points here, and this part reaches its maximum at +100% ROI. A strategy with a negative ROI scores zero on this component.
• Copiers' real results (25%). The share of copies that actually ended up in profit. This part only exists once somebody has traded a copy — see below.
• Win rate (15%). The share of the strategy's deals that closed in profit.
• Recent activity (15%). How many deals the strategy made in the last 30 days. A strategy that is actively trading scores higher than one that has gone quiet. This part reaches its maximum at roughly 50 deals per month.
• Track record length (7.5%). How long the strategy has been running. A longer history is more trustworthy than a brand-new one. This part reaches its maximum at around 300 days.
• Popularity (7.5%). How many users have already copied the strategy. This part reaches its maximum at around 10 copies.

Each part has a ceiling, so no single factor can carry the whole score on its own.

Why copiers' results are ranked. The author's ROI was earned on their account, with their entry timing. A card can therefore show a spectacular return while everyone who copied it is down — which is the signature of a strategy that needed one right moment rather than one that adapts to changing conditions. A modest return that copiers also earn is worth more than a huge one only the author got, so how copies actually did is the second-largest input. It is also the hardest number to fake: copy counts and reviews can be inflated, real trading results cannot.

Why profitability outweighs the win rate. A high win rate on its own is easy to produce and easy to misread: martingale and grid bots close almost every deal in profit and then give it all back on the rare loser. A card can show a 99% win rate and still be deeply negative overall.

Why ROI and not profit (PnL). Profit is an absolute amount in USDT that depends on the author's deposit size, so it cannot be compared fairly between strategies — it stays on the card as its own figure and is never folded into the score. ROI is a percentage return, so it can be compared fairly.

An externally-hedged ROI is not ranked at all. If a card depends on an outside hedging system, its ROI is dropped from the score as well as hidden on the card — scoring a strategy on a number we cannot vouch for would just launder it.

Missing data never counts against a card. If a component cannot be calculated — the ROI because the account's starting balance is unknown, or the copiers' results because nobody has traded a copy yet — that part is simply left out and the remaining weights are rescaled to fill the gap. A brand-new listing that nobody has copied is scored on exactly the same basis as before the copier component existed, so it is never penalised for being new.

Where a card is placed in the list

Ordering happens in two steps: cards are first split into three groups, and only then sorted by score inside each group. The groups are:

1. Everything else, including cards nobody has copied yet.
2. Copiers collectively in the red — the author's result did not travel to other people.
3. The author's own track record is negative.
4. The result leans on an external hedging system — the figures are not the strategy's own, so they are hidden rather than ranked.

So a card whose copiers lost money never outranks one whose copiers made money, however much better the author's own ROI looks. This comparison deliberately applies only between cards that actually have copiers: a new listing cannot be copied until someone sees it, so demoting it for having no copiers yet would be a trap it could never climb out of. Nothing is hidden either way — demoted cards simply sink to the end of the list and can still be opened and copied.

The exact formula

Each component is first capped at 100, then weighted and summed, and the result is rounded to a whole number:

roi_part     = min(100, max(0, roi_percent))
copier_part  = 100 × copies_in_profit ÷ copies_traded

score = round(
      0.300 × roi_part
    + 0.250 × copier_part
    + 0.150 × win_rate
    + 0.150 × min(100, deals_30d × 2)
    + 0.075 × min(100, running_days ÷ 3)
    + 0.075 × min(100, times_copied × 10)
)

If a component is unavailable, its term is dropped and the remaining weights are each divided by their sum, so they still add up to a whole. With no copier history the five remaining weights come back out as 0.40 / 0.20 / 0.20 / 0.10 / 0.10 — exactly the weighting used before copiers' results were added.

Worked example 1 — a strategy with ROI +60%, win rate 80%, 30 deals in the last 30 days, running 240 days, copied by 4 users, none of whom has traded their copy yet (so the copier term drops out and the other five are rescaled):

Component	Raw value	Capped (max 100)	× weight	Contribution
Profitability (ROI)	60	60	× 0.40	24.00
Win rate	80	80	× 0.20	16.00
Recent activity	30 × 2 = 60	60	× 0.20	12.00
Track record	240 ÷ 3 = 80	80	× 0.10	8.00
Popularity	4 × 10 = 40	40	× 0.10	4.00
Total				64.00 → 64

Worked example 2 — the win-rate trap. A grid bot with a 99% win rate, 600 deals in the last 30 days, running 100 days, no copies, but an ROI of −50%:

Component	Raw value	Capped (max 100)	× weight	Contribution
Profitability (ROI)	−50 → 0	0	× 0.40	0.00
Win rate	99	99	× 0.20	19.80
Recent activity	600 × 2 = 1200	100	× 0.20	20.00
Track record	100 ÷ 3 = 33.3	33.3	× 0.10	3.33
Popularity	0 × 10 = 0	0	× 0.10	0.00
Total				43.13 → 43

Its near-perfect win rate and heavy activity still count, but they no longer hide the loss — and because the author's total profit is negative, the card is placed in the last group as well.

Worked example 3 — the result that did not travel. A strategy with a huge ROI of +1370%, a 99% win rate, 140 deals in the last 30 days, running 340 days, copied by 12 users, 4 of whom traded their copy and none of whom ended in profit:

Component	Raw value	Capped (max 100)	× weight	Contribution
Profitability (ROI)	1370	100	× 0.300	30.00
Copiers' results	100 × 0 ÷ 4 = 0	0	× 0.250	0.00
Win rate	99	99	× 0.150	14.85
Recent activity	140 × 2 = 280	100	× 0.150	15.00
Track record	340 ÷ 3 = 113	100	× 0.075	7.50
Popularity	12 × 10 = 120	100	× 0.075	7.50
Total				74.85 → 75

A score of 75 still looks respectable — but because its copiers are collectively in the red, this card is placed in the second group and therefore sits below every card whose copiers made money, even one scoring 49. That is the point: the author's number is theirs, the copiers' number is yours.

Treat the score as a quick guide for comparison, not a guarantee. Always look at the individual numbers on the card and the safety reminder before copying.

Ratings and reviews

Each card shows a star rating (the average) and the number of reviews. Click it to read the reviews or leave your own.

Only users who have actually copied the strategy can review it — every review is marked as a verified copy, which keeps ratings honest and blocks fake or paid-for reviews. A review is a 1–5 star rating (always counts) plus an optional comment. You can update your review later; there is one review per user per strategy.

Comments are checked automatically before they appear: offensive or abusive text is rejected while your star rating is still kept. Automatic checks don't catch everything (plain profanity in particular), so if a comment that slipped through looks wrong, use the ⚑ report action on it — the platform team reviews reported comments and can hide them or take account action. The strategy's author receives a Telegram notification when a new review comes in.

Reactions. A comment or reply can carry one of three reactions: 👍 useful, 🔥 great, 🤔 debatable. A thread shows only the ones people actually chose; to add yours, press the small face beside them and pick from the list. Pressing a reaction that is already there adds your vote to it. Any logged-in user may react except the comment's own author — a counter you can raise on yourself would mean nothing. One reaction per comment: picking another replaces it, tapping the same one again takes it back. There is deliberately no negative reaction: on a marketplace where authors publish their own work a thumbs-down is a cheap, anonymous way to damage someone's card, while genuinely inappropriate content has the ⚑ report, which a person reads. Reactions disappear together with the comment if it is deleted or hidden by moderation.

Activity feed

Beside the cards, and on a phone under the Activity tab, the marketplace shows the last 100 things that happened: a card was copied, someone commented or replied, a new card went up, an author published an update. Newest first.

Every entry opens exactly what it refers to: a comment entry jumps to that comment, an entry about a reply jumps to that reply. Comments and replies show their author and their first words, so it is clear which message is meant. Copying and publishing are reported impersonally.

Reactions do not enter the feed one by one — a reaction is the cheapest action in the product, and an entry per tap would push everything else out. Instead a single entry appears once a comment has collected five reactions: that is no longer "someone tapped" but "the community marked this". It never appears again, however many more arrive.

Withdrawn cards drop out of the feed: it is about what you can still open, read and copy.

Finding a specific strategy or trader

The search box at the top of the page filters the list by trader number, strategy number, or strategy name. This is the quickest way to jump to a particular entry.

You can also click a card's Trader # label to pin the list to that trader — showing every public strategy they have published. A chip appears so you can clear the filter and return to the full list.

Sharing a link to a strategy

Each card has a link button (🔗) that copies a short link straight to that strategy in the marketplace. Anyone who opens the link lands on this page with that strategy highlighted, so you can point someone to a specific strategy instead of sharing the copy link itself. The copy link (from Copy strategy) starts the import immediately; the marketplace link just opens the entry for viewing.

Step 1 — Pick a strategy

Browse the cards and choose one whose track record and risk profile suit you. Beginners usually start with a Free strategy that has a solid win rate, a decent number of deals and has been running for a while.

Step 2 — Copy it

Press Copy strategy on the card. An import window opens showing a summary of what you are about to copy:

• who shared it (trader profile number) and on which exchange;
• the money figures per one bot — first order (FO), position volume and reserve — from the settings (for a tandem, per each leg), plus the total at full capacity if every bot opens (per-bot × max active bots × number of strategies), so you can fund the whole thing, not just one bot;
• the price (Free, or the FDC cost);
• a disclaimer.

Choose which of your accounts the strategy should run on (it must be on the same exchange), then confirm. If the strategy is paid, the FDC cost is charged once — re-importing the same link later is free.

An identical copy is created under your own profile — its filters and rules, the bot settings, the trading pairs and the price limits are all recreated fresh under you. Nothing on the author's side is touched, and you do not have to configure anything by hand.

You need funds and, for paid strategies, FDC. Make sure the selected account holds enough funds to run the strategy — at least the first-order amount, ideally enough for the full bot volume. For paid strategies you also need enough FDC in your wallet; top it up in the Spending Wallet if needed.

Step 3 — Turn it on

For your safety, the copied strategy arrives switched off. It does not trade until you enable it. To launch it:

1. Open Futures → Trade Strategies.
2. Find the new copy — it is marked as imported and named after the author it came from.
3. Review its settings and confirm the account has enough funds.
4. Flip the Enable toggle.

From that moment the strategy runs automatically on your account, exactly like the author's original.

Imported strategies are read-only

A copied strategy is an exact replica, so some author-defined details (the internal filter values) are hidden and it cannot be re-shared or cloned. You can still enable/disable it, assign it to an account and run it — you simply cannot repackage someone else's work as your own.

Your copy never updates by itself. It keeps the settings it was created with. If the author later changes their strategy — even if they republish the link — your existing copy is untouched. To run a newer version you copy the card again — see Taking an author's update.

The strategy logic is locked, but the bot settings are yours to edit — the first order (FO), take-profit, stop-loss and safety orders. That lets you size the copy to your own budget: for example, lower the first order to run the strategy on a smaller deposit. This changes only how much capital each deal commits, not the strategy's entry behaviour, so your copy still follows the original.

Taking an author's update

An author who improves a strategy republishes the link; the card then shows a higher version number. Your existing copy is not touched by that — it keeps running the settings it was created with. Taking the update is something you do yourself, and it works the same way for free and paid strategies except for one point about money.

Step by step

1. The card shows a version higher than the one your copy came from. Copies are named after the version they were taken from ([from #123456 v2] Trend Rider), so you can tell which is which in your own list.
2. Copy the card again from the current link. This creates a separate copy — its own strategy, bot settings, safety-order grid, pairs and price limits. Nothing about the old copy changes.
3. Switch the old copy off and the new one on when you are ready. Neither happens automatically, and running both at once means running the strategy twice.
4. Delete the old copy once you no longer need it — but read the warning below first if the strategy is paid.

Free strategies. Nothing else to know: copy again whenever the author publishes a new version.

Paid strategies — the update is free. The charge follows the copy, not the link: while you hold at least one live copy of that strategy you paid once, and every further import is free, a newly republished link included. There is no separate accept changes step — copying the card again is the whole flow.

warning

The charge is tied to holding a copy, so delete every copy of a paid strategy and the next import is charged again — the same link included. Take the new version first, then delete the old one, not the other way round.

One copy per link. While a live copy taken from a given link exists, that same link cannot be copied twice — the card says so before you press anything. Delete that copy and the link becomes available again, though for a paid strategy that also means paying for it again. This is why a republished link is copyable while the old copy still runs: it is a different link.

Sharing your own strategy publicly

If you are an experienced trader, you can list your own strategy here. When you generate a share link (from Futures → Trade Strategies, the share action on a strategy), choose Public (marketplace) as the visibility and, optionally, set an FDC price. Publishing is open to everyone — free or paid, with no restriction. What builds trust instead is the Verified trader badge: it appears automatically if you trade consistently — at least 10 strategy deals (closed by a limit order) in each of the last 6 months — or when the team verifies you. The status is re-checked daily and drops if you stop meeting the bar. Until then your card shows an Unverified trader badge, so copiers know to be cautious. Your strategy then appears in the marketplace with its live performance for everyone to copy. See Sharing & Copying Strategies for the full picture.

Safety reminder

Past performance never guarantees future results. You copy and run any strategy entirely at your own risk; the trader who shared it bears no responsibility for the outcome. Start small, understand the risk profile on the card, and never invest more than you can afford to lose.