Deploying a published strategy
Deploying a published strategy clones its rules into your account and walks you through allocating capital and deploying it. This page covers the flow and, more importantly, what you are and are not taking on.
What you are actually doing
| You are | You are not |
|---|---|
| Cloning a rule set into your own account | Following anyone's trades |
| Allocating your capital | Sending money to the author or to Stretus |
| Routing through your broker connection | Sharing an account |
| Running a snapshot of the strategy as it was when you deployed | Subscribing to a live feed of the author's decisions |
The author cannot see your account, your capital, your trades or your P&L. They owe you no duty of care and have no obligation to maintain the strategy.
If the author changes the strategy after you deploy, your copy does not change. Yours is a snapshot from the moment you deployed it.
Two people who deployed the same listing three months apart may be running materially different strategies with the same name.
The flow
Paper
Three steps: Save, Select mode, Deploy. No broker, no capital at risk.
Live
Six: Save, Select mode, Broker, Allocate, Review, Deploy, preceded by three listing-specific steps.
Step 1: Capital
Enter how much to allocate. A minimum applies: US$50 by default, or a higher minimum the publisher set, whichever is larger.
You are shown an Estimated Impact panel with two figures computed on your allocation:
| Shown as | What it actually is |
|---|---|
| "Potential ROI (historical X%)" | Your allocation × the listing's past return. Arithmetic on history |
| "Max Drawdown (Y%)" | Your allocation × the listing's worst historical drawdown |
Both are the listing's past percentages multiplied by the number you typed. The drawdown side is correctly labelled historical. The upside side is labelled "Potential ROI", and that word is wrong. It reads as forward-looking when it is not.
Read it as: "what the strategy's past return over the selected window would have amounted to on this capital." Nothing more.
Renaming that field to "Historical return on this allocation", and removing "potential", "estimated" and "projected" from any monetary figure, is a P0 item. Earlier documentation described the field as "Estimated gain, projected gain in money terms", which was worse than the interface.
Use the drawdown figure, not the return figure. It is honestly labelled, it is in money, and it is the number that decides whether you can actually hold this position.
Step 2: Risk acknowledgement
A required tick. The panel states, correctly:
Past performance does not guarantee future results. Trading involves substantial risk of loss.
This strategy has a maximum historical drawdown of Y%. Your allocated capital of Z could temporarily decrease by up to W.
Only invest capital that you can afford to lose entirely.
Read the second paragraph as a sentence about your own money, not as a form to clear. If W is a number you would not tolerate, reduce the allocation. That is what the step is for.
Note the word "temporarily". A drawdown recovered historically is not a drawdown guaranteed to recover.
Step 3: Confirm
The summary: strategy, price, capital, risk tier, health score.
A publisher can set a subscription price and it is displayed here. No payment is collected. There is no charging path in the platform. Marketplace listings are currently free to deploy. See Strategy visibility.
Step 4: Mode
Paper (simulated, no broker needed) or Live (real orders through your broker).
Step 5: Broker, Allocate & Review (live only)
Select the broker connection, allocate broker capital, and confirm the required trading acknowledgements. That the strategy is fully automated, that the broker is execution-only, and the exchange tagging requirements.
Your trading account is selected from your connections based on the strategy's asset class, an Indian equity broker for equity, your exchange for crypto. You do not pick it manually.
Step 6: Deploy
The strategy starts on the next candle close.
Set your own risk limits
The step nobody tells you to take.
The cloned strategy carries the author's build-time controls, stop-loss, take-profit, sizing. It does not carry execution risk gates, because those are per-deployment and belong to you.
Seven of the nine gates are off until you configure them. A cloned strategy with a good backtest and no configured limits will place orders until it runs out of your allocated capital.
Set them: daily loss cap, per-trade risk, maximum open positions, consecutive-loss halt. See Which limits are on by default.
Paper first, even here
It is someone else's rule set running on your money, and you did not build it, so you know less about its failure modes than you would about your own.
A paper run tells you: whether it trades at all in current conditions, whether the trade frequency matches the listing's claim, and whether your risk limits engage.
After deploying
Your deployed copy behaves like any other strategy you own, manage it from My Strategies.
| Action | Effect |
|---|---|
| Pause | No new entries; open positions run to their exit conditions |
| Resume | New entries re-open |
| Stop | Halts the strategy. Open positions are not auto-closed, they run to their exits, or you close them at your broker |
| Unsubscribe | Ends the subscription and removes the copied strategy |
If the author unpublishes or deletes the listing, your copy keeps running. Only the public listing is affected, which cuts both ways: an author who withdraws a strategy because it stopped working cannot switch off your copy, and neither can the platform.
Rules
- One active subscription per strategy.
- You cannot deploy your own published strategy from the listing.
Track without deploying
Save a listing to your watchlist to follow it privately. The author is not notified.
A checklist before you allocate
- I opened the detail page, not just the card
- I know how many days live it has and how many trades
- I know whether this environment can list simulated performance
- I have converted the drawdown into money on my allocation, and I would hold through it
- I have read the author's description and disclaimer. And noticed if either makes a performance claim
- I have set my own execution risk limits
- I am running paper first
- I understand my copy will not receive the author's updates
- I have read the risk disclosure
Next
- How listings are selected & ranked
- Which limits are on by default
- Compare strategies
- Risk disclosure