Bot
Build a strategy, put it on your account, and let it trade for you.
Get started
- Connect your brokerWhich brokers Wildflower works with, what you need before you start, and what happens once an account is connected.
- Connect a ProjectX account (Topstep)What to set up in your firm's dashboard first, what credentials Wildflower needs, and the bracket setting that has to be right.
- Connect a Rithmic accountHow to connect a Rithmic account to Wildflower: what Rithmic needs before it lets you in, how to pick your system, and what to check if it won't connect.
- The Wildflower Demo accountThe demo account is coming. Where it will be, what it will need, and what you can use today.
- Your first day, step by stepYour first day with the Bot in five steps, from a new account to watching your own strategy run, and what's normal to see at each step.
Build a strategy
- What a strategy is in WildflowerA strategy is your own set of rules, saved as versions. What one holds, how it starts, and where yours live.
- Describe your strategy in your own wordsDescribe your rules in plain English and Wildflower writes them down as a saved strategy. What it does, what it will not do, and how it keeps the record.
- Why fields start emptyTrading fields start empty and you type your own numbers. What each field tells you, and how to find your own answer.
- The block builderStrategies are built from blocks in a fixed order: source, detector, gates, entry, exits, sizing. What each kind is for.
- Detectors, and the parts inside themThe block that spots a setup and proposes a trade, and the named pieces of it you can set on their own.
- Entry gates and score floorsGates refuse an entry when a condition does not hold. Score floors pass over a setup that measures below a number you set.
- Stopping for the dayOne gate that blocks any further entry once you have had the number of trades, or the number of losing trades, you set for a day.
- The indicator condition gateOne gate that holds an entry back unless the indicator conditions you state are all true on closed bars.
- Structure break and retestA detector that keeps a book of the lines price has been respecting, and trades one when price breaks it: either as price comes back to it, or on the breaking candle.
- Requiring a double top or bottom to be retestedThe double top and bottom gate can also require the pattern's neckline to break and price to come back to it, not only that the pattern exists.
- The candle pattern gateRequire the last closed candle to be a named pattern, or require that it is not, before an entry is allowed.
- The fair value gap blocks: a gap, and a gap closed throughTwo detectors built on the three-candle gap: one fires when a gap forms, the other when price closes back through one.
- The swing blocks: swing highs and lows, a break of one, and a change of characterThree blocks built on swing highs and lows: one fires when a swing is confirmed, one when a candle closes past the latest swing, one when that break turns around.
- Equal highs and lows, liquidity sweeps, order blocks and breaker blocksFour blocks built on swing highs and lows: two equal swings, a wick through a swing that closes back, and the zones a break leaves behind.
- The expansion candle and supply and demand zone blocksTwo blocks about fast moves: one fires when a candle leaves the candles before it behind, the other marks where a strong move started and fires when price comes back.
- Returning into a gap, and the Fibonacci blocksThree blocks about price coming back: into a fair value gap, into a band of a swing's Fibonacci levels, or out to a Fibonacci extension.
- The trendline and retest box blocksThree blocks about a level price breaks and comes back to: a trendline's break, a broken trendline's retest, and the box a strong break leaves behind.
- Entries, exits and trade protectionThe entry and exit blocks: how the order goes in, how the trade comes out at your stop, target or exit rule, and the rules that run while it is open.
- The account blocks: sizing, safety, calendar, news, hedgingFive blocks that apply to the whole account rather than to one source: how much to trade, when to stop, and when not to be in the market.
- Backtesting a strategyHow to backtest a saved strategy in Wildflower over dates you choose, and how to read the result knowing what the test assumed about fills and costs.
- Fill assumptions on a backtest resultEvery result says what the backtest assumed about spread, slippage, stops and delay. What each line means.
- Order and timing rules in a backtestHow a backtest handles order timing: entry and stop landing together, waiting orders, your firm's close time, and gaps in the price history.
- Try a rangeType a from, a to and a step, and get a grid of real backtests. How it works, what it refuses, and which plans include it.
- Versions, notes and comparing themEvery save makes a new version with its own short code. Why saved versions are never edited, and how to compare two.
- Profiles: the same strategy, different settingsA profile is a named set of changed numbers on one strategy, so an evaluation account and a funded account can run it differently.
- A strategy someone shared with youWhat a shared strategy is in Wildflower, who can share one with you, what taking a copy does, and what the person who shared it can and can't see.
- What the Lab isThe Lab is where you test your own ideas about your strategy before you trade them. What is in it, and what each part needs.
- Try an ideaAn idea is a named version of your own strategy with one thing changed. How to make one, and what you can do with it.
- Reading a side by sideTwo of your versions, the same dates, the same prices, the same fill rules. What each row means and why the money is restated.
- Keep comparing, week after weekPin two of your versions and Wildflower re-runs both every Sunday over a rolling window, adding one row a week. How to start and stop it.
- Live rehearsalA rehearsal runs your idea on live prices on a connected account and places nothing. Which account it follows, what it records, and how it differs from a backtest.
Go live
- Where your trading runsStrategies trade from your own computer through the Wildflower agent. The website is for watching, planning and control.
- Set up your computerOne download and one double-click, with no code to copy. How the Wildflower agent gets onto the computer you trade from, and how to tell it is connected.
- How many accounts one computer can runYour plan says how many accounts you can connect. Your computer decides how many it can run at once. How Wildflower works that out, and what it does when you reach it.
- Where your broker sign-in livesYour broker sign-in is stored on your own computer, locked to your Windows user. What that protects, and what it means if you change computers.
- Put a strategy on an accountPutting a strategy on an account is the step that lets it trade. What changes, and what the account keeps.
- Switching an account onThe switch is the only thing that lets Wildflower place an order. What has to be true first, and what happens next.
- What Wildflower does during the trading dayFrom the market opening to your account going quiet at the close: what runs, in what order, and what you will see.
- Contract rollover, and what Wildflower does about itFutures contracts expire. What roll day is, when Wildflower pauses around it, how the switch to the new contract happens, and what you will see.
- Watching your first trade end to endWhat happens when the Bot places its first trade on your account: what you see, where you see it, and what you don't have to do yourself.
- Everything else that happenedThe Activity page's second tab: every decision Wildflower made, in plain English, including the ones where it decided not to trade.
- Why didn't it trade?The reasons Wildflower passes on a trade, grouped and in plain English, and where to look to find out which one it was.
- Stop everything, Pause, and switching offStop everything and the calmer controls around it: pause, switch off and stop, exactly what each one does to your orders and positions, and how to undo it.
- Halts: what stopped the day, and how to resetSome halts clear themselves at the next trading day, and some wait for you. Which is which, and where the button is.
- News windowsHow the no-entry-around-news rule works, where the window is set, and what happens to an order already resting.
- When the news calendar cannot be readWildflower keeps trading by default if the release calendar goes down, and tells you loudly. Here is why, and how to change it.
- Running one strategy across several accountsA strategy is the group. What moves together, what stays with the account, and how to move an account onto a different strategy.
Accounts and limits
- Your firm's rules and your own limitsTwo different sets of rules act on the same account. Which is which, who enforces them, and what Wildflower will not do.
- Drawdown types, in plain wordsTrailing, end-of-day trailing and static drawdown behave completely differently. What each one does to your cushion.
- The Guardrails metersFive live meters showing where an account stands against its firm's rules, and what each state means.
- Guardrail actions: alerts first, anything else by choiceYou can ask Wildflower to act when a meter reaches a line you set. Where to set one, what the options are, and why nothing is on by default.
- Consistency rulesWhy one big day can hold up a payout, how the meter measures it, and how to get back inside the line.
- Your goal and each account's progressWhere the month's payout goal and each account's progress live: on Accounts, measured only against numbers you entered.
- Payout trackingWildflower cannot see your firm approve a payout, so payouts exist here because you logged them. What that gives you.
- Rest windowsA block of hours the account sits out, and a tool that backtests what each candidate window would have cost.
- When your account is allowed to tradeWhere an account's trading hours come from, why an account running several setups has one window for each, and how to read them.
- Your daily safety limitsThe limits that end an account's day: loss, profit, giving back what the day made, losses in a row, and red days. Where they live and what each does.
- Warmup: the history a strategy reads before it startsWhat warmup is, why 30 days is the default, what changing it does, and why we cap how far back you can ask for.
- Risk per trade, and how sizing worksThe four ways to size a trade, the maximum dollar risk that limits every one, and every setting that can make the count smaller.
- Smaller size below your starting balanceTrade a smaller share of your normal size while an account is below its starting balance, and go back to normal size on its own once it is not.
Your results
- My strategies, and how each compares with its backtestWhat each strategy card says, how live trades are compared with that version's own backtest, and the messages you can ask for.
- Reading the DashboardHow to read your Wildflower dashboard: what each card shows, which question it answers, and where to go next for the detail behind each number.
- Profit and loss: gross, net, and feesTrades are stored gross of fees and shown net. Why it is done that way, and where each figure appears.
- Reading your trade historyWhere your closed trades live in Wildflower, what each row of your trade history means, and how to filter and sort them by account, strategy or date.
- One trade, in detailA trade's own page: its chart, the result after fees, why it traded, and the fill details a careful trader checks.
- ActivityWildflower writes up every trade it took, using only what is on the record. What it says, and what it refuses to say.
- The agreement scoreYour live sessions are re-run as a backtest, through the day and again once the market closes. The score is how closely they agreed, and what it never claims.
- Exporting your dataEverything Wildflower holds about you in one file, and the trade and Activity exports shaped for other tools.
- The status pageWhether Wildflower is healthy, whether your accounts are running, and whether our alerts can reach you.
- Where the Lab's numbers come fromThree labels, one per figure: Backtest, Rehearsal, Live. What each means, what the fill rules are, and why figures with different labels never mix.
- Capped figures, and the days a strategy tradedWhy the profit figure on the Running now tab of your Strategies page is the one your firm's daily cap would have left you, and what the days-traded figures beside it mean.
- Reading the Reports pageWhat every figure on the Reports page means, which dates each one covers, and where each one is measured from, so you can read your own results clearly.
- Reading the Charts pageWhat the Charts page draws, which layers you can switch on, and why the price itself lives on your own computer.
Fix something
- My broker will not connectBroker won't connect? What to check for ProjectX and Rithmic when a connection is refused or never completes, in the order most likely to fix it.
- My account shows offlineWhat it means when an account shows offline because Wildflower on your computer isn't running, what happens to open trades, and how to get it back online.
- Nothing traded todayNothing traded today? The four things it could be, in the order worth checking, and how Activity shows you which one it was.
- A trade at my broker is not showing in WildflowerA trade isn't showing in Wildflower? Why that can happen, how long to wait for it to appear, and what to do if it still hasn't shown up.
- I am not getting notificationsWhere notifications are configured, the two levels of setting, and how to check delivery is healthy.
- Wildflower on your phoneUsing Wildflower on your phone: what the app looks like on a small screen, what's one tap away, and what push notifications need to work.
- My broker shows as disconnectedWhat happens to your trading while a broker connection is down, how Wildflower shows it, and the order to check things in so it reconnects.
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