How Doji Works started: from unprofitable trader to building tools for traders
By Stefan Stefanovic
About five years ago I got into trading. For the first two years I wasn't profitable. I was learning the hard way: charts, risk, psychology, and the sheer amount of noise out there. I spent a lot of time switching between brokers, copying trades by hand, and wondering why my backtests never quite matched live results. It was frustrating, but it was also the best education I could have asked for. You learn very quickly what actually matters when real money is on the line.
That stretch taught me something important. I started to see clearly what holds new traders back, and what would have helped me. Not more signals or hype, but real structure: backtesting you can trust, execution that doesn't fight you, and tools that work together instead of in silos. Most of what’s out there is either too shallow or too fragmented. You get a great backtester in one place, an execution layer somewhere else, and no clean way to go from idea to live trade without duct tape everywhere. The pain points are the same for almost everyone: trust in your backtest, consistency between backtest and live, and one place to manage multiple accounts without losing your mind.
So we're building Doji Works. We want to give traders, especially those still finding their feet, things that actually ease the journey. Some of that will be free: solid free-tier tools so you can learn and test without betting the farm. Some of it will be paid: a full trading suite that makes the day-to-day easier: strategy discovery, quant bot in the cloud, one signal to many accounts. The idea is to remove friction at every step: from researching strategies to running them in the cloud to sending the same intent to MT4, MT5, prop firms, or crypto. No more copy-paste. No more "it worked in backtest, why not live?" surprises.
The goal is simple: fewer pain points, less friction, and tools that respect your time and capital. This is the company I wish had existed when I started. We're here to build it.