Two numbers decide how many accounts you can trade at once.
- Your plan says how many broker accounts you may connect. The Bot includes 10 connected accounts. You can add 5 more for $25 a month ($225 a year). The Wildflower Demo never counts.
- Your computer says how many of those it can run at the same time. Every account you switch on runs on that one computer, so this number is yours alone.
Why a computer has a limit
At the close of every candle, each account works out what to do before an order can go out. So each account you add costs two things:
- Memory. Each account keeps its own recent prices and working notes.
- Time at each candle close. More accounts means more work at the same moment, so orders go out later.
That time has two parts. One is working out what each strategy says, which grows with how many different strategies you run. The other is each account's own checks, which grows with how many accounts you run.
Accounts on the same strategy share the work
If two accounts run the same strategy on the same market, Wildflower works out what that strategy says once and gives the answer to both. The tenth such account adds only its own checks.
Each account still decides for itself: its risk, its daily limits, its contract limits, whether it is paused or already in a trade, and the order it sends. You do not have to set any of this up.
Some strategies cannot share, and Wildflower does not try. A strategy that leaves orders waiting at your broker, or that changes its size as the day goes, depends on one account. So it runs its own copy.
Using more than one processor core
On its own, Wildflower works through your accounts one after another, on one processor core. It can spread them across several cores instead. Each account, and everything it watches, stays together on one core, so your settings, limits and orders work the same way.
This starts switched off. If speed is what limits your number, contact us and we will switch it on.
How Wildflower works out your number
Wildflower measures your computer while it runs: how much memory each account adds, and how long one candle close takes. Nothing is guessed. Until it has measured, it lets you switch accounts on and keeps measuring. One account can always be switched on.
What happens when you reach it
When you switch on an account:
- Inside your number, it switches on as normal.
- Past the comfortable number, but still possible, Wildflower shows both numbers, says whether memory or speed is the limit, and asks you to confirm. Your accounts still trade. The one thing you give up: a Wildflower update will pause trading for a minute or two, instead of handing over with no gap.
- Past what the computer can run, Wildflower will not switch it on, and says why.
Your computer checks too when it starts an account. If there is not enough memory, it refuses that one account and says so. Every account already trading carries on.
How to raise it
- Switch an account off. The limit counts accounts running at once, not accounts you own.
- Use a second computer. Install Wildflower on another computer and run some accounts there. Your plan does not change.
- Add memory, if memory is the limit.
- Use more cores, if speed is the limit, as described above.