Traders often run the same rules differently at different stages. An evaluation account and a funded account are not the same situation. Copying a strategy twice to show that leaves you with two things to keep up to date.
A profile is a named set of changed numbers that sits on top of a version. The rules stay as one strategy. The profile changes only the numbers.
How it works
- The strategy holds the rules and its own values.
- A profile lists some of those settings and the values to use instead.
- When the strategy runs, the profile's values replace the strategy's own for those settings. Everything else stays as the strategy has it.
You can change any setting the strategy has a value for. That includes a setting on one named part of a detector, not only on the detector itself.
How to use it
- Open the strategy from the Library tab of Strategies and go to its profiles.
- Create a profile and give it a name that describes the situation.
- Set the values that should be different.
- When you put the strategy on an account, choose which profile that account uses.
What it is not
A profile is not a second strategy and not a preset. A new profile starts empty, with no values in it, for you to fill in.
Which plan
Profiles are part of the Bot plan.
What can go wrong
A profile's change only works if the setting it names still exists. If you rebuild a strategy and a setting is gone, the change has nothing to apply to. Check your profiles after you change a strategy's structure.