Actions & Runtime

Once a strategy's rules are built, this is where you run it and watch it work — starting and stopping it, seeing its live state and variable values, and reading a log of everything it has done.

A strategy's actions — what a rule does when it fires — are defined per rule in the rule editor, and are covered in Strategy Rules. This article is about what happens once those rules are live: how to turn a strategy on, and how to follow it while it runs.

Starting and stopping a strategy

A strategy runs per account, and there are two places to switch it on or off:

• On the Strategies page, each strategy card has Paper and Live switches (see Strategies Overview).
• On your Dashboard, a compact Strategies card lists your strategies with a switch for each and an "N running" count. Its switch acts on your current trading mode — so if you're in paper, it starts and stops the strategy in paper.

Paused strategies are dimmed. Click a strategy's name here to open its runtime view.

The runtime view

Clicking a strategy opens its runtime sheet — labelled Runtime status and controls — a read-only management view, separate from the setup sheet where you edit rules. It has three tabs: Information, Rules, and Events, and it updates live while it's open.

Information — live status and values

The Information tab opens on a Status card: the strategy's priority, its Paper and Live on/off state, and a switch that starts or pauses it for your current mode.

Below the status, the tab shows the strategy's Private variables (my.*) and Aggregates (agg.*) with their current live values for the active mode — see Strategy Variables. Aggregate values are computed only while the strategy is running, so they fill in once it's on and read "—" when it's paused.

Rules — live rule state

The Rules tab lists the strategy's rules exactly as the editor groups them (Entry / Exit / Other), but read-only: each card shows how many times it has fired today in your current mode and marks itself pending while an action is in flight. You can pause or resume an individual rule here without opening the editor — a quick way to silence one rule while leaving the rest running. For how the rules and their actions are built, see Strategy Rules.

Events — this strategy's log

The Events tab is a live table of every rule evaluation for this strategy in the current mode: the Time, the Rule, the Event (what happened), the Action it took, and how many Positions it touched. It refreshes continuously, so you can watch entries and exits land as they happen.

The account-wide Event Log

For the whole picture across every strategy and both modes, the Strategies page has its own Event Log tab.

It's the same event table, widened to include the Strategy and Mode columns, so you can audit exactly what fired, when, in which strategy and account, and what it did. It's the first place to look when you want to confirm a strategy behaved as expected — or find out why it didn't.