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Paper & Live Trading

Once a strategy backtests well, deploy it to run automatically. CTAgent always starts on paper and treats live trading as a deliberate, separate opt-in.

Paper trading (default)

Paper trading executes your strategy against live market prices with simulated money. It’s the default, it’s free, and it needs no Binance connection.

Paper-trade this strategy.

Your paper portfolio tracks equity, open positions, and a full order history — exactly as a live account would, but with nothing at risk. It’s the right way to validate a strategy in real, forward-moving market conditions.

How deployed strategies run

CTAgent runs each deployed strategy on a simple, robust cadence:

  • The autonomous scheduler wakes on a configurable interval and processes each strategy once per closed candle — no mid-candle guessing.
  • Each tick is deterministic and idempotent: restarting the bot never double-trades or re-fires an action that already happened.
  • A failure in one strategy is isolated and won’t take down the others.

Check what’s running with /deployed.

Proactive alerts

You don’t have to watch the chat. When a deployed strategy acts — opens a lot, hits a take-profit, trips its Risk Manager — CTAgent messages you on Telegram so you always know what happened and why.

Going live (opt-in)

Live trading places real orders on your Binance account. It is intentionally gated:

  1. Connect a trade-only Binance key with /connect.

  2. Explicitly enable live execution for a strategy (a double opt-in — globally, then per strategy).

  3. Confirm individual live actions when prompted.

Every live order passes through deterministic guardrails — symbol allow-list, max order size, daily-loss limit, and kill-switch — that the AI cannot bypass.