Migrating from Pine Script to cAlgo is easier than people think, and that's a problem
With AI coding assistants making it trivial to port Pine Script or MQL5 strategies into cAlgo, there's a wave of traders treating migration as a form of strategy validation. It isn't. Moving a strategy to cTrader's C# environment is genuinely straightforward - the Monaco editor, solid documentation and LLM assistance mean you can have a working cBot in hours. But that speed is hiding a real problem. Most traders are translating logic without questioning it. The assumptions baked into a Pine Script strategy - how it handles bar closes, repainting, execution timing - don't always map cleanly to a live execution environment with sub-millisecond fills and real slippage. A bot that looked clean on TradingView charts can behave completely differently when it's actually live. The cTrader Store has a growing catalogue of indicators and frameworks specifically built for cAlgo's execution model, which is a better starting point than a ported script for many use cases. Migration should be a trigger for a full logic audit, not a shortcut to deployment. Are you reviewing the core assumptions of a strategy when you migrate it, or mostly just making sure it compiles?
