Horizon FAQ
Clear answers about Horizon, the AI-powered trading platform for turning plain-English trading ideas into structured, testable strategies.
What is Horizon?
Horizon is an agentic trading platform that helps traders research, build, backtest, and automate trading strategies from plain-English prompts. You describe a trading idea, and Horizon helps turn it into structured rules for entries, exits, risk controls, and execution.
How does Horizon turn a trading idea into a strategy?
Horizon translates your strategy description into testable trading logic. A prompt can define conditions such as the asset, timeframe, entry signal, exit rule, stop loss, take profit, position sizing, and risk limits.
For example, you can describe a momentum, mean reversion, breakout, ETF rotation, RSI, MACD, or trend-following setup. Horizon then helps structure the idea so it can be reviewed, backtested, refined, and prepared for automation.
Is Horizon a no-code algorithmic trading platform?
Yes. Horizon is designed for traders who want to build algorithmic trading strategies without writing code. You do not need Python, Pine Script, MQL, or custom broker API work to start creating and testing strategy logic.
Do I need coding knowledge to use Horizon?
No. You explain the trading setup in normal language, and Horizon helps generate the rule-based strategy logic. Traders can still review and refine the strategy, but programming knowledge is not required for the core workflow.
What types of trading strategies can I build?
Horizon can help structure many rule-based trading strategies, including momentum, mean reversion, breakout, pullback, trend-following, ETF rotation, indicator-based, and risk-managed execution strategies. The best strategies are specific: they define the market, timeframe, entry condition, exit condition, and risk rules.
Does Horizon support backtesting?
Yes. Horizon supports backtesting so you can evaluate a strategy against historical market data before considering live trading. Backtests can help review total return, drawdown, win rate, Sharpe ratio, profit factor, trade history, and other performance or risk metrics.
Backtesting is useful for research, but it does not guarantee future results. Market conditions change, and live execution can differ from historical simulation.
Do I need a broker account to backtest?
No. Backtesting does not require a connected broker account. You can research and test strategy logic first, then connect a broker later if you want to move toward live automated trading.
Which markets and brokers does Horizon support?
Supported markets depend on the broker or venue connected to Horizon. Horizon is built around broker-connected workflows, and the currently available venues may change over time. Please check the available brokers at https://horizon.trade/brokers
How do I connect a broker?
To connect a broker, open the broker connection flow in Horizon, choose a supported broker or venue, and follow the authorization steps. After connecting, review account permissions, available assets, order types, and risk settings before deploying any strategy.
Can Horizon automate live trading?
Yes. After a strategy has been reviewed and backtested, Horizon can help deploy it for automated execution through a connected broker. You remain responsible for the strategy, broker connection, risk controls, and any trades placed through your account.
Before going live, confirm that the strategy rules, position sizing, stop loss, take profit, and maximum risk settings match your plan.
Can I edit a strategy after testing?
Yes. You can revise a strategy after a backtest by changing parameters, entry conditions, exit rules, risk controls, or asset filters. After every meaningful change, run a new backtest and compare the results before considering live deployment.
Is Horizon suitable for professional traders?
Horizon is built for traders who want a faster workflow from research to strategy design, backtesting, risk review, and execution. It supports professional-style strategy development by making trading logic easier to define, test, compare, and iterate.
Is Horizon financial advice?
No. Horizon provides trading technology, data, research, backtesting, and automation tools. It does not provide financial advice, investment recommendations, or guarantees of profit.
Trading and investing involve significant risk. You are responsible for your own trading decisions and should review the Risk Disclosure before using live trading features: https://horizon.trade/legal/risk-disclosure.
How does Horizon protect my trading data?
Horizon uses secure connections for data transmission and is designed to protect trading data, broker connections, and strategy information. Before connecting accounts, review Horizon's privacy policy, broker authorization screen, and any permissions requested by the connected broker.
How do I get access to Horizon?
You can sign up to a plan at https://horizon.trade/ in order to get access.