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.
• Safety caps — hard limits that stop the bot if things go wrong (see below).
• Launch — review and start it.

Safety caps

Caps are the bot's circuit breakers. Set them deliberately:

• Max drawdown — stop the bot if equity falls a set percentage from its peak.
• Daily loss — stop if losses in a day exceed a limit.
• Max notional — cap the size of any position.

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.