What's new in PTQ

A lot went into PTQ this week, most of it straight from questions on the live training. Here's all of it.

Connect wherever you trade

There's now a list of 101 brokers, exchanges, data sources and tools that PTQ connects to, each with its logo. Search for yours or scroll the whole thing on the integrations page.

Nine are built in: Alpaca, Interactive Brokers, Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, OKX, Bybit, KuCoin and Bitget. You connect them in the PTQ app on your computer and that's it.

Yours isn't on the list? If it has an API, it still works. PTQ signs each order and sends it to a small endpoint you run, and your endpoint places it with your broker. Claude will help you set that up.

If PTQ doesn't have a live price for what you trade, a prop firm's futures for example, the broker you're connected to supplies the price for that order.

Live trading, from your own machine

Live trading runs through the PTQ app on your computer. Your keys stay on it. Nothing goes out until you've switched live trading on and armed that strategy yourself, and every order still has to pass your risk limits. Once a strategy is armed it can keep trading while you're away, inside those limits.

This is new, so start small. PTQ's orders have been tested on Alpaca's paper account and haven't been tested against a live broker yet.

Test on your own data

If PTQ doesn't carry the prices you want, bring them. Prop firm data, a futures feed, your broker's own history, anything with an API. Ask Claude to fetch it or hand it a CSV, and it's saved to your account as its own market. Anywhere from 60 rows to 100,000, and saving it uses no credits.

From there every test runs on it exactly as it does on PTQ's data. Same backtest, same five checks.

Test your own indicator

RSI from your charting platform or a score from your own model. Any number per bar works. Put it in the upload as a column called signal and PTQ works out where to act on it. It tests seven sets of levels so the overfitting and luck checks are real, and it goes through the same quant tests as everything else.

One thing to watch. PTQ can't see how your indicator was built, so if it uses future prices, every test will look better than real life.

Claude talks to you properly

• The first thing it asks is how deep you want to go: keep it simple, in between, or full quant.
• Shorter answers, and the numbers go in tables.
• Every reply ends with numbered options. You pick a number instead of staring at an empty box.
• Any term you don't know links to its page in the glossary.
• After every validation it scores the strategy out of 10 and leads with the score. When an idea has run its course it says so, tells you what it taught you, and offers a new one.
• You can set your risk limits from the chat, like how much one trade is allowed to lose.

The app keeps up with Claude

Make or test something in Claude and the page follows along without a refresh. Run a validation and it opens on the verdict.

Results are drawn now. A backtest opens with the answer in figures before any detail, and so does Performance. Your strategies show as bars you can click, and a research loop shows its progress as a bar.

Report a problem from any screen

Bottom right of every screen there's a report button. Paste a screenshot in with it so we can see exactly what you saw.

Connecting your AI is quicker

Connecting is one step at a time on screen. The check at the end takes two calls and no longer relies on a market being open, which is what tripped us up on the live training. Works with Claude, Codex or any MCP client.

Fixes

• A strategy made in Claude could open on a blank page. Fixed.
• A dip-buy strategy could turn the whole app white. Fixed, and every screen is now tested against the strategies Claude actually writes.
• Deleted strategies stay deleted, and their backtests go with them.
• The quote tool no longer suggests symbols it then refuses.

If the broker you use isn't on the list, or there's something you want PTQ to do next, tell us.