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# 5. The Strategy Builder

The Strategy Builder is maicrotrader's core product. It is the interface for configuring, backtesting, and deploying STAs, multi-agent trading vaults running on the MAE, without requiring a quant background, a developer, or a prime broker relationship.

The central design principle: **show your work**. Every template ships with a real on-chain track record. Every backtest shows funding rate drag, slippage, and regime breakdown, not just the headline return. Every deployed vault generates a per-agent attribution feed that explains every trade in plain terms.

The Strategy Builder is in active development. The sections below describe the confirmed product specification.


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