Describe a Trading Setup in Plain English. Get Working Detection Logic.
The SNACS playbook builder turns a plain-English description of a trading setup into detection logic with historical backfill, real-time alerts, and shareable playbooks.
Every trader has rules. Almost nobody has them written down precisely enough that a machine could check them. That gap - between "I trade the first red-to-green after a gapped open with volume confirming" in your head and logic that actually watches every ticker for that sequence - is what the SNACS playbook engine closes, and in v2.0 you can close it by describing the setup in a chat.
From sentence to setup
Open the playbook builder and describe the trade the way you would to another trader:
"Gap up over 20% premarket on at least a million shares, then I want the first pullback that holds above VWAP within the first hour, with the reclaim confirming on volume."
The AI builder assembles that into discrete detection steps - the gap condition, the pullback window, the VWAP hold, the volume confirm - and shows you each piece as a confirmable chip before anything is saved. You approve, adjust, or rephrase, turn by turn. When the structure is right, it hands off to the advanced editor, where every threshold, window, and sequence rule is exposed for fine-tuning. Plain English to start, full precision to finish: neither mode dumbs down the other.
See where it would have fired
A playbook you cannot test is an opinion. Saving a playbook backfills it against market history at bar granularity, so you see every historical match: the date, the bar it triggered on, and what the ticker did after. The engine is intrabar-honest - it evaluates conditions in the order the tape produced them, so a backfill match means the sequence actually occurred that way, not that the day's summary bar happens to fit.
That turns playbook building into an iteration loop: describe, backfill, inspect the matches, tighten a condition, backfill again. Most setups get meaningfully sharper within a few passes because the false positives are sitting right there, telling you which rule is loose.
Then let it watch the tape
Armed playbooks run against the live feed through the full 4 AM to 8 PM ET session. Alerts fire per step or on completion - your call, with per-step alert bells and a master mute for days you only want to watch. On Alpha, alerts never expire.
Share the exact rules
Playbooks share by username or email as linked read-only copies that stay in sync when you refine yours. The person you share with sees the actual rules - not a screenshot of an entry, the logic itself.
Why this beats a scanner column
A scanner tells you what is happening right now. A playbook encodes your sequence - this, then that, within this window, confirmed by this - and tells you when the whole pattern completes. The scanner finds candidates; the playbook finds your trade.
The playbook engine is included in both plans (Edge $99/mo, Alpha $199/mo), with the AI builder drawing from your plan's AI quota. Start with the 5 trading day trial at snacs.trade/signup, or read how the rest of v2.0 fits together in the launch post.