Strategy Lab — design, size and stress-test before you enter
An eight-tool workbench for turning a thesis into a sized, validated trade. Options pricing, a 14-template multi-leg builder, scenario simulation, position sizing and a rules-check planner — all crypto-native, all fed by your live platform data.
Why it exists
Reading the market is only half the job. The other half is turning a view into a concrete trade — the right strikes, the right size, a stop with an actual reason — and knowing how it behaves if the market crashes or rallies before you commit real money.
Strategy Lab is where that happens. Eight tools cover the whole pre-trade workflow, from pricing a single option to building a multi-leg structure, stress-testing it against scenarios, and sizing a futures position down to the fee and liquidation level.
What you get
The eight tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Options Calculator | Single-leg pricing and Greeks with five view modes — long/short call, long/short put, synthetic |
| Strategy Builder | Multi-leg composer with 14 templates, drag-drop legs, live P&L diagram and aggregate Greeks |
| Strategy Simulator | What-if scenarios — crash, rally, range — with probability of profit and IV expansion/contraction |
| Volatility & Greeks | An IV solver (inverse Black-Scholes) plus explainers for extreme gamma, theta and contract multipliers |
| Trade Calculator | Futures sizing in three modes, leverage risk badge, exchange fee presets and in-range liquidation check |
| Trade Planner | Builds an entry/stop/target plan and runs it through a five-row rules check |
| Setup Builder | Turns a drawing and condition blocks into a setup you can test on history and track live — no code |
| Strategy Library | A catalogue of the 14 strategies — when to use each, best regime, typical R:R and risk profile |
The Trade Planner won't just take your numbers — it checks them. Does the stop have a structural reason, not an arbitrary percentage? Is R:R at least 1.5? Is the position within 2% account risk? Is the entry out of premium? Do at least three engines agree? Gaps are flagged before the plan is "ready", so risk discipline is enforced, not optional.
Sizing that knows the real cost
The Trade Calculator sizes futures positions three ways — by USDT amount, by coin amount, or by percentage of account risk — and accounts for what actually eats returns. A leverage risk badge flags LOW through EXTREME, exchange fee presets fill in typical taker costs, and an in-range liquidation check warns you when your liquidation price sits inside the move you're trading. The R:R read is benchmarked so you know whether a setup is poor, acceptable, good or excellent before you commit.
Strategy Lab doesn't work in isolation — it pulls the active trade plan from Market Intelligence, the live expiry and critical strikes from Options Map, and positioning context from Smart Money, straight into the designer. Plan a trade here and you can hand it off to Journal to track how it actually plays out.
Common questions
What is the FOCSAL Strategy Lab?
Strategy Lab is an eight-tool workbench for trade design: a futures trade calculator, a rules-check trade planner and the no-code Setup Builder; an options calculator, a multi-leg strategy builder with 14 templates, a scenario simulator, volatility and Greeks tools, and a strategy library. It imports the active trade plan, expiries and strikes from elsewhere in the platform.
How does position sizing work in Strategy Lab?
The Trade Calculator sizes futures positions in three modes — by USDT amount, by coin amount, or by percentage of account risk. It includes a leverage risk badge, exchange fee presets, an in-range liquidation check and an R:R benchmark so you can size a position with real costs accounted for.
What multi-leg options strategies can I build?
Strategy Lab includes 14 multi-leg templates including bull and bear spreads, long strangle and straddle, iron condor, iron butterfly, risk reversals, jade lizard, ratio backspreads and calendar spreads — each with a live P&L diagram, aggregate Greeks and a drag-drop legs editor.
Open Strategy Lab
Build, size and stress-test trades before you enter. Strategy Lab is part of every plan — on Free the planner and Setup Builder work on BTC.
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