Studio Challenges

Studio Challenges are meant to teach you how to change a strategy by talking to Turbine in plain English. You should not need to memorize internal keys or edit YAML by hand to finish them.

Read the strategy first

Each challenge has three parts:

• the lesson goal,
• the current strategy,
• the quiz once the strategy matches the goal.

Before you type anything, read the goal and compare it with the strategy on the right. Ask yourself:

• What is this strategy already doing?
• What one thing is the lesson asking me to change?
• Is the lesson asking for a new signal, a tighter safety limit, or a clearer exit?

The easiest way to work through a challenge is to tell Turbine exactly what to keep and exactly what to change.

Examples:

Keep the same spread-capture idea, but only post when Coinbase BTC is calm.

Keep the same momentum strategy, but tighten the allowed YES price range.

Keep the same entry, but add a stop-loss and a take-profit exit.

Risk challenges

Risk lessons usually ask you to keep the trading idea and make the strategy safer.

That often means changing one of these:

• maximum open contracts,
• allowed YES price range,
• maximum loss,
• buy size on a custom entry rule.

Useful prompts:

Keep the same strategy idea, but lower the maximum open contracts.

Keep the same entry rules, but tighten the allowed YES price range.

Keep the same strategy, but add a maximum loss cap.

Keep the same custom rules, but reduce the buy size and make the price bounds tighter.

If the lesson is about safety, the strategy should still look like the same strategy after the edit. The signal stays the same. The limits get tighter.

Add edge challenges

Edge lessons ask you to add outside data that improves the entry decision. In these challenges, that usually means Coinbase BTC data.

The important pattern is:

1. tell Turbine which Coinbase signal you want,
2. tell Turbine how that signal should affect the entry,
3. keep the rest of the strategy idea intact.

Useful prompts:

Keep the same reversion idea, but only buy when Coinbase BTC price is above its short moving average.

Keep the same momentum idea, but only enter when Coinbase 4-hour change is positive and spot BTC is above VWAP.

Keep the same spread-capture idea, but only post when Coinbase BTC velocity is calm.

Keep the same custom buy rule, but add Coinbase confirmation before the buy can fire.

You do not need to tell Turbine the raw field names unless you want to. Plain English is enough if the signal is specific:

• Coinbase BTC price above a short moving average,
• Coinbase BTC above VWAP,
• Coinbase BTC 4-hour change positive,
• Coinbase BTC moving too fast or staying calm.

If you want more background on supported market and edge data, see Backtest Data Sources.

Exit challenges

Exit lessons ask you to keep the entry idea and add a clearer way to get out.

That usually means:

• take profit,
• stop loss,
• exit on signal reversal,
• exit near market close.

Useful prompts:

Keep the same entry, but add a take-profit exit when the move works.

Keep the same strategy, but add a stop-loss if the trade moves against us.

Keep the same setup, but exit if the signal reverses.

Quiz tips

The quiz is checking whether you understand what changed in the strategy.

If you miss a quiz question:

• read the strategy again,
• compare it with the lesson goal,
• focus on the one thing that changed,
• use the examples above if you want a quick refresher.

The right answer is usually the part of the strategy that the lesson was teaching:

• the safety limit,
• the Coinbase signal,
• the exit rule,
• the strategy type.