Adding and managing strategies

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To add a strategy you need to press Add Strategy button an the bottom of the list in Strategies section and select the required strategy from the drop-down menu in the dialog window. For Lock strategies there is an option to create a single session (1 account) strategy.

After you selected strategy pressed OK pop-up window will appear offering to create a symbol list from template. If you accept it you will be able to select one of the available templates. Click the desired template to add it.


On the next step you will see strategy window that contains several buttons and tabs:

Buttons:

Apply changes – allows to apply changes when parameters in Settings tab are modified

Run – starts strategy

Close All – allows to close all open position in one click.

Clear All – clears all orders and position from strategy memory.

View log – opens log window

Launch on startup - allows to automatically start the strategy on the software startup.

Tabs:

Instruments and orders – contains trading instruments settings. Detailed description of the parameters can be found in corresponding strategy section of this manual.

Logs – opens strategy performance log.

Settings – contains global strategy settings. Detailed description of the parameters can be found in corresponding strategy section of this manual.

In the bottom half of the strategy window you can see orders section where you can find comprehensive information about open and closed orders.

Opened orders – contains list or open orders

Closed orders – contains list of closed orders.

After creation strategy is added to the list of strategies in Strategies section that provides quick access to the most essential information about strategy and to Equity manager.

Here you can enable or disable strategy, check it's status, error notifications, number of open orders, configure equity manager, check current profit status, access to settings, stop, start, clone or remove it.