Go live safely
Real money is a different test. Move to it slowly.
Trading on margin can lose you more than you put in. Past results, including backtests, do not predict future results. Cloud9Trader provides tools and education, not financial advice. Read the full risk warning.
Trading sessions on Cloud9Trader are in beta, and accounts connected on the accounts page are confirmed as demo accounts.
Before you switch
Section titled “Before you switch”- It has run on the demo account for weeks, not hours, and behaved as the backtest said it would.
- It has been tested on data it was not tuned on. See Optimize without overfitting.
- Every position has a stop. See Add stops, targets and a trailing stop.
- Each trade risks a small, fixed share of the account, 1% or less. See Size positions from your account.
- You know the worst drawdown in testing, and you could sit through twice that.
- You have tried it on the broker’s practice account, with real spreads and fills.
- You know how to stop it and how to close its positions at the broker.
Start small
Section titled “Start small”Put a small amount in the live account, smaller than you think. Compare each live trade with what the demo account did. If they differ, find out why before adding money.
Watch it
Section titled “Watch it”- Check its positions every day at the broker as well as in Cloud9Trader.
- An Errored session emails you. A session that stops for other reasons may not: check that it is still Active.
- Stopping a session does not close its positions. Close them yourself.