Trade with evidence.
Not impulse.
A sandbox that turns investing from intuition into discipline — across crypto, UK and US shares.
Build a strategy, prove it against years of real market data, before you risk a cent.
The sandbox is the curriculum.
Every idea is a hypothesis you can run. Every chart is a model you can break. You don't learn markets by watching them, you learn by stress-testing them.
How it works
From a hunch to an answer.
Four steps. The first three take a few minutes; the fourth takes as long as it takes, because that is the only honest way to run it.
Describe your idea
Say what would make you buy, and what would make you sell. In plain blocks, not code.
Indicators, comparisons and numbers snap together into a rule the engine can run. Nothing to install, no Python unless you want the export.
Buy when it is oversold, but only while the long trend is still up.
Test it on real history
Your rule is replayed over years of real prices, with the fees you would actually have paid.
Real Binance candles, venue fees and slippage included, and every trade it would have taken listed out. A receipt, not a claim.
Find out whether it was luck
The number on its own means nothing. This is the part that tells you if you actually have something.
Measured against simply holding, against time windows you did not choose, and against a random trader with your trade count. Most ideas do not survive this, and that is the point.
Beating chance is not enough. If holding the asset would have done better, the rule is an expensive way to own it.
Watch it forward
Run it on live prices from today. Change your rules as you learn — but you can't rewrite what already happened. Every change goes on the record.
Paper trading on real market data. The past can be tuned until it flatters you; tomorrow cannot, which is why this is the test that counts.
Collaborations and awards
AwardInnovate UKWe won our first grant: £15,000 from Innovate UK's Unlocking Potential Award in 2023.
AwardUWE Entrepreneurial Futures AwardWe won £15,000 and a year in the Student Ventures incubator in 2024.
Advance AssuranceSEISWe secured advance assurance from HMRC, so our early investors may be able to claim SEIS tax relief.
Entrepreneur AcceleratorNatWestWe earned a place on NatWest's accelerator, with coaching and mentoring for founders.
Student societyUWE Fintech SocietyWe formed a partnership with UWE's fintech students, who try new features and tell us what to fix.
Student societyBristol BlockchainWe formed a partnership with the University of Bristol's blockchain society: exposure for Mach D, and help for its student members.
Build partnerWhite RoomWe hired White Room, a design and build company in Penang, as our build partner.
Grant funding, accelerator places, tax-relief assurance and partnerships held by Mach D Trading. Listing does not imply that any programme, award body or institution endorses the platform or its results.
Reserve a seat in the next cohort.
We onboard in waves of 200 to keep simulation performance honest.
No marketing emails. One signal per cohort.
FAQs
Everything we get asked most often, about the product, the access model, and the philosophy.
Mach D is a trading sandbox for crypto, UK and US shares where you learn by testing, not guessing. Compose entries, exits and risk in a visual rule builder, prove your strategy against years of real market data in seconds, and get an honest read, with AI feedback, on whether its edge is real or just luck. Then test it live on real prices before risking a cent, turning trading from intuition into discipline.
Anyone who wants to learn markets and enter them the right way, from complete beginners taking their first steps to serious retail traders, finance students, and analysts testing ideas before they fund them. If you'd rather understand a strategy than be sold one, you're the audience.
No, not at all. You build your entries, exits and risk visually, with no code required, so beginners can start right away. If you'd rather look under the hood, any run can be exported as a clean, runnable script you can read or take further, but that's entirely optional.
Yes. Anyone can open a private room with a join code, set its rules — which markets, how much starting capital, how many holdings, and when trading opens and closes — and compete on a shared leaderboard, individually or in teams that share one portfolio. The host sees who is taking part, and at the close can freeze every entrant's full trade record and download the results.
No. We don't custody funds, route orders, or sell signals. Mach D is a research and education platform. The sandbox is where ideas get tested, not where capital is deployed.
We're onboarding by cohort to keep the feedback loop tight. Join the waitlist and we'll reach out as the next slot opens.