About Pulsar
One terminal for the whole trade — not five subscriptions.
Pulsar is an algorithmic trading platform for independent traders. Build a strategy visually, test it against real market history, run it on simulated or connected capital, and review what happened — in one continuous workflow, without writing code.
Why it exists
Built from workflow pressure, not a borrowed template.
Pulsar began in March 2025 out of a specific frustration: the tooling for automated trading was either priced for institutions, heavy enough to need an engineer, or scattered across four separate subscriptions that knew nothing about each other.
A strategy would be designed in one tool, tested in another, charted in a third and tracked in a spreadsheet — and every handoff lost context. The goal was a single product that carries a strategy through its whole life, with its rules, its history and its statistics travelling together.
- One continuous workflow — build, test, run and review without leaving the platform.
- No code as a requirement — strategy logic is assembled, not programmed.
- Simulated capital first — a built-in paper exchange to validate before anything is at risk.
Positioned deliberately
Between tools that cannot automate and systems that assume a quant team.
Being clear about what a product is not is more useful than another list of features. Here is the honest boundary.
What Pulsar is
- A complete strategy lifecycle: build, test, run, review
- A visual interface that replaces code for strategy logic
- A real backtesting engine with trade-level detail
- A built-in paper exchange for zero-risk validation
- One product in place of several scattered subscriptions
What Pulsar is not
- A brokerage, a fund, or a financial adviser
- A signal service, or any promise of profit
- A copy-trading or social-trading network
- An institutional terminal such as Bloomberg or Refinitiv
- A coding environment or IDE for quant research
How it gets built
Three commitments that decide what ships.
Numbers that admit their limits
A backtest is a hypothesis, not a forecast. Results carry their sample size, and the platform actively flags a result that rests on one lucky setting instead of presenting it as an optimum. Flattering a strategy helps nobody who has to trade it.
Features earn their place
Something ships because it removes a real step from a trader's day, not because it demos well. That is why the platform stayed one workspace instead of growing into a suite of loosely related tools you have to reconcile yourself.
Independent by design
Self-funded, with no investor timeline pushing growth ahead of the product. The trade-off is that it moves at the pace one team can genuinely support — and shipping less beats shipping something people put capital behind before it is ready.
Where it has got to
From a bot engine to a full terminal.
The engine
Founded in Germany. Development starts on the core bot engine and the backtesting framework — the two pieces everything else depends on.
Simulated capital
The internal paper exchange goes live, and the first full backtests run against historical market data end to end.
A terminal, not a tool
Portfolio manager, chart analysis and the market intelligence workspace ship, alongside deeper analytics and risk controls — the point at which the product became one workspace.
Depth over surface
Expanding the indicator library, sharpening execution controls, and deepening the analytics and robustness tooling that tell you whether a strategy is real.
The company behind it
Pulsar is the platform. SFZ Capital is the company.
Two names appear across this site and they are not interchangeable, so it is worth being exact about which is which — particularly on the legal and billing documents.
SFZ Capital
The company that builds, operates and provides the software. It is the contracting party on the terms, the controller named in the privacy policy, and the provider identified on the Impressum. Based in Königstein im Taunus, Germany, and independently funded.
Pulsar
The trading platform itself — strategy creator, backtester, charts, analytics and portfolio. It is software: it does not hold your capital, execute as a broker, or advise you. Your broker and your capital stay yours.
Operated from Germany under German law. Full provider details are on the Impressum; the terms, privacy policy and risk disclosure sit in the document center.
Try it on simulated capital first.
Create an account and build a strategy against real market history without risking anything — or tell us what you are trying to build and we will get you into the beta.
Trading involves substantial risk of loss. Past and simulated performance are not indicative of future results.