Building a No-Code Trading Platform From Scratch
Quanto started as a two month sprint to get from idea to a working app for Indian retail investors.
No-Code Is a Constraint, Not a Feature
The premise behind Quanto is simple: retail traders should be able to build, backtest, and run a trading strategy without writing code. The hard part is not the interface, it is compressing the logic of a trading strategy into building blocks that stay flexible without turning into a programming language in disguise.
Real Data, Real Consequences
Once a strategy is live, it is pulling real time market data from Yahoo Finance and executing through Angel One. That changes the engineering bar considerably. Backtesting can tolerate a rough edge. Live execution and automated background trading cannot.
AI as an Assistant, Not the Strategy
The AI insights layer, powered by OpenAI, is deliberately positioned as a second opinion, not the decision maker. Users build the strategy. The model helps them understand what it is doing. Keeping that boundary clear was as much a product decision as an engineering one.
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