Deploy a bot

Once a strategy backtests well, deploy it as a paper bot — it runs your logic forward on live candles with no real capital at risk. The Deploy wizard walks you through it.

What you set

• Strategy — which strategy (and version) to run.
• Pair & timeframe — the market and candle size it trades.
• Starting balance — the simulated capital it manages.
• Risk policy — the account-level rails the bot trades under (see below).
• Launch — review and start it.

Risk policy

The risk policy is the same one you set on a backtest — pick a preset (Conservative, Balanced, Aggressive) or tune it yourself; risk policy explains every rail. The bot enforces it exactly as the backtest did:

• Exposure caps and a cash reserve shrink an entry that would go past them.
• A soft drawdown scales entries down (or pauses them) until the bot recovers.
• A daily loss limit pauses new entries until the next UTC day.
• A hard drawdown closes everything and stops the bot. Start it again to resume — drawdown then counts from that moment.

Exits and your strategy's own stops keep working while entries are paused.

Paper first, always

Paper trading is the forward-test between backtest and live. A strategy that looked good on history can behave differently on fresh candles (timing, fills, gaps). Run it on paper until you trust the record.

Next: monitor the Fleet.