Paper & Live Deployment

The path from a graded spec to a running agent — and the gates that protect you along it.

Paper deployment (available now)

Any saved agent can be paper-deployed from My Agents. The engine evaluates your agent against live market data, candle by candle, using the identical signal logic as the backtest — same entry rules, same exits. It records simulated fills (net of the same fee model) but places no orders and needs no API keys. Paper answers the question the backtest can't: does the agent behave the same way in the market that exists now?

• Runs 24/7 server-side — you don't keep a browser open.
• Only fully-closed candles are evaluated; the forming candle is never traded on.
• Closed trades accumulate on the agent's card as a running total in basis points.

Live deployment (rolling out)

Live deployment runs the same agent against your own exchange account via your connected trade-only key. It is deliberately hard to reach:

• The Grade gate: only agents that pass all five gate checks can go live. A failing agent cannot be live-deployed at any price — that rule is the platform.
• A connected exchange with futures permission (API key guide).
• Risk limits enforced by the engine,from the spec itself: per-trade risk sizing, a leverage cap, a daily-loss halt, and a max-drawdown halt. Stops rest on the exchange as real orders — the agent's protection doesn't depend on our servers being up.
• A kill switch, always: one click flattens positions, cancels orders, and stops the agent.

The honest expectations paragraph

A passing Grade is evidence, not a guarantee. Markets change regimes; an edge measured on the past can fade. This is why live agents are monitored against their own backtest's promise — and why position sizing, not conviction, is what keeps accounts alive. Never deploy money you cannot afford to lose. Nothing on this platform is financial advice.