algothDocs — Automation
Using autonomous mode
How autonomous mode executes suggestions for you, how to restrict it to strategies and conditions you choose, and which safeguards still apply.
Autonomous mode executes pending suggestions for you instead of waiting for approval. It's off by default, opt-in, and every hard risk limit still applies to everything it does.
Turning it on
The switch is in the Risk & controls card on the Dashboard. Enabling it asks you to acknowledge a risk disclosure once.
Deciding what it's allowed to do
Autonomy isn't all-or-nothing. Four separate controls narrow it:
- Strategy selection — tick only the strategies you want it to open positions for. Unticked strategies still show suggestions on the Dashboard for you to approve manually; the automation just won't act on them.
- Restrict to validated strategies — when on, only strategies that passed out-of-sample validation may open positions autonomously.
- Separate risk limits — the Autonomous mode tab under Account → Risk & sizing holds its own copy of all nine limits. Give the automation tighter reins than you give yourself. See setting your risk limits.
- Extra conditions — additional requirements that must also pass before it opens anything: a minimum number of strategies agreeing, specific strategies that must (or must not) agree, a minimum level of supporting news, the market regime (trending, weak, or choppy) the strategy fired in, and optionally requiring the AI reviewer to agree. Combine conditions with AND/OR/NOT; leaving all of them at their defaults turns this off.
What it always does regardless
- Closes always execute. A close reduces risk, so it isn't gated behind your strategy toggles or extra conditions.
- Hard risk limits still block. Daily loss, drawdown, position count, notional, portfolio risk — the automation hits the same walls you do.
- Everything is logged. Each autonomous decision, including the ones it declined to take and why, lands on the Activity page.
- Telegram alerts fire on every autonomous open and close, if you've connected it.
Stopping it
Two ways, both instant and never gated:
- Turn autonomous mode off — back to approving everything yourself.
- Kill switch — pauses new signals entirely, for manual and autonomous alike.
A drawdown halt also stops everything automatically until you review and resume it.
What to consider
- Paper-trade it first. Autonomous mode works in paper exactly as it does live. Watching it run for a couple of weeks on simulated money tells you far more than reasoning about it will.
- It won't wait for a better price. Automation takes the setup as it fires. If you habitually improve on suggestions by waiting, you may be giving that up.
- Fewer strategies, tighter limits, to start. You can always widen it later.
- It's still your account. Autonomous mode executing a trade doesn't make the outcome someone else's responsibility — every trade is yours.