User Guides

Everything you need to build, test, and deploy deterministic trading strategies on Podium. These guides cover the Strategy SDK, backtesting, risk management, and long-short construction.

Strategy SDK Reference

Complete reference for the Strategy base class, StrategyContext, DataAccessor, and risk_limits(). Covers the 4 lifecycle methods: initialize, universe, signal, and risk_limits.

First Backtest Tutorial

Step-by-step guide: clone a template, run a backtest, interpret results (equity curve, Sortino, max drawdown, trade log), and deploy to paper trading.

Risk Limits & Guardrails

All 8 guardrail checks explained with numeric examples. Covers soft guardrails (scale down), hard guardrails (reject/pause), and kill switches.

Long-Short Strategies

Gross vs net exposure, borrow costs (1.5% annualized), long/short attribution, and the 4 archetypes: 130/30, sector-neutral, beta-neutral, hedged.