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Deploying a Strategy Live

From backtest to a real, running deployment.

Every strategy shows an equity curve, drawdown, and trade-by-trade P&L from its backtest before you deploy — review this first. When you're ready, open the strategy and choose Deploy.

Before deploying

Connect and activate a broker (see Connecting a Broker Account) — only a live, non-mock connection can be selected.
Pick the broker to route orders through and confirm quantity/lot sizing.

What happens after

Your strategy runs on the automated execution engine, watching the market and placing real orders through your connected broker when its entry/exit conditions are met. Track it any time from Monitoring Your Live Strategies.

You can also place a one-off manual order directly from the Place Order Directly panel without deploying a full strategy — useful for testing a broker connection or acting on a signal by hand.