Welcome to Vaanam
Vaanam is a comprehensive platform for building, backtesting, and screening the market for strategies. Whether you're a quantitative trader, algorithmic investor, or data-driven analyst, Vaanam provides the tools you need to test ideas and automate market analysis.
⚠️ Beta Disclaimer
Vaanam is currently in beta. Features may change, and results should be validated independently. This platform is for informational and educational purposes only—not financial advice.
What is Vaanam?
Vaanam combines six powerful capabilities:
- Strategy Backtesting — Test trading strategies against historical data with customizable entry/exit rules, ranking systems, and risk parameters
- Strategy Optimizer — Automatically test hundreds of parameter combinations to find the best settings for your strategy
- Stock Screeners — Filter stocks across major indices using technical indicators and custom queries
- Trading Bots — Deploy strategies as paper trading bots that execute automatically on live market data (stocks and crypto)
- Pattern Scanner — Automatically detect classical chart patterns (triangles, head & shoulders, double tops/bottoms, and more) across the market
- Automated Alerts — Schedule screeners to run automatically and receive notifications via email or webhook
Key Features
🎯 Strategy Builder
- Visual & Code-Based — Build strategies using a visual interface or write custom queries
- AI Query Assistant — Describe your strategy in plain English and let AI generate the logic
- Long & Short Positions — Test both bullish and bearish strategies
- Ranking & Rotation — Automatically rank stocks and rotate positions on rebalance
- Confirming Conditions — Add secondary filters to reduce false signals
📊 Backtesting Engine
- Historical Data — Test strategies with up to 20+ years of data (plan-dependent)
- Realistic Simulation — Account for commission, slippage, and execution timing
- Multiple Timeframes — Daily, hourly, or intraday (1/5/10/15/30 min)
- Pre-market & Post-market — Include extended-hours data in your analysis
- Default Asset — Automatically invest idle capital (e.g., into GLD or SPY) when no positions are open
- Comprehensive Results — View equity curves, trade history, drawdowns, and rebalance activity
- Performance Metrics — Sharpe ratio, max drawdown, win rate, profit factor, and more
📈 Charts & Analysis
- Comparative Charts — Overlay multiple tickers on the same chart to compare performance
- Custom Formulas — Plot custom expressions on charts (e.g.,
SMA_20 * 1.05for a 5% band) - Market Breadth — Live dashboard showing market-wide signals: advances/declines, RSI extremes, MACD crosses, 52-week highs/lows, volume spikes
🔍 Stock Screeners
- Multi-Index Support — Screen S&P 500, NASDAQ 100, Dow Jones, All stocks, sector-based, or custom baskets
- Visual Condition Builder — Build conditions by selecting indicators from dropdowns, no DSL knowledge needed
- Technical Indicators — RSI, SMA, EMA, MACD, Bollinger Bands, ATR, Stochastic, ADX, ROC, and more
- Custom Baskets — Create watchlists and screen only your selected stocks
- Real-Time Execution — Run screeners on-demand or schedule automatic runs
🔬 Strategy Optimizer
- Parameter Sweeps — Test ranges of indicator values automatically
- Grid Search — All combinations tested and ranked by performance
- Multiple Metrics — Rank by Sharpe ratio, total profit, max drawdown, or win rate
🤖 Trading Bots
- Paper Trading — Deploy strategies on live market data with no real money
- Live Execution — Connect to a real broker via TradersPost for automated live trading
- Stocks & Crypto — Run bots on US equities or crypto pairs from Delta Exchange
- Automated Execution — Bots evaluate conditions on schedule and execute trades
- Risk Controls — Configurable stop-loss, take-profit, and max position limits
- Featured Bots — Browse publicly shared bots, view live P&L, and copy strategies
- Weekly Championship — Compete against other traders for the top spot on the public leaderboard
📐 Pattern Scanner (Pro)
- Automatic Detection — Scans all stocks nightly for classical chart patterns
- 15+ Patterns — Triangles, head & shoulders, double tops/bottoms, VCP, and more
- Chart Overlays — View detected patterns directly on stock charts
⏰ Automated Alerts
- Flexible Scheduling — Run screeners every 5/15/30 minutes or daily at a specific time
- Email & Webhook — Get notified by email (all plans) or webhook (Essential & Pro)
- Persistent Queries — Save AI-generated prompts with your screeners for easy editing
Supported Markets & Data
- US Markets: S&P 500, NASDAQ, Dow Jones, Russell 2000
- Crypto: Pairs from Delta Exchange (available in trading bots)
- Custom Baskets: Create your own stock universes
- Timeframes: 1 Min, 5 Min, 10 Min, 15 Min, 30 Min, 1 Hour, Daily, Weekly, Monthly (availability depends on plan)
Getting Started
Quick Links
- 🚀 Create Your First Strategy — Build and backtest your first strategy
- 🔍 Create Your First Screener — Filter stocks with custom criteria
- 🔬 Strategy Optimizer — Find the best parameters for your strategy
- 🤖 Trading Bots — Deploy strategies as automated paper trading bots
- 📐 Pattern Scanner — Detect chart patterns automatically
- 📖 DSL Grammar — Learn the query language
- 📊 Technical Indicators — Explore supported indicators
- 💳 Plans & Limits — Compare plans and feature limits
Ready to get started? Sign up and create your first strategy today!
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