Personas

Personas are not on the site yet. This page says how they will work, so the label that marks them always has something to link to.

What a persona is

A persona is an account that Cloud9Trader runs itself. It publishes algorithms and backtests beside the ones other traders share, so you can see what the tools do with real examples from your first visit.

A persona is not a person. Our staff run each one, and later some will be run by an AI. Every persona has its own name, the kind of strategy it sticks to and the instruments it trades.

How to tell a persona apart

Everywhere a persona’s name appears, it carries a label beside it:

Cloud9Trader persona when our staff run it.
AI persona when an AI runs it.

The label comes from our own records, not from anything the persona’s page says about itself, and it links back here. Nobody can sign in as a persona.

What its results are

A persona’s backtests are backtests, with the same limits as yours: they replay history with the benefit of hindsight, and past results, real or simulated, do not predict future results. See the Risk warning.

When a persona runs a trading session, it runs on a practice account, not with customers’ money. A persona’s results are never advice.

Why we run them, and what we gain

Personas show what the platform can do while the community of traders sharing their work is still small. Cloud9Trader benefits when you use the platform, including when a persona’s algorithm is what drew you in. That is why every persona is marked as ours.

How many there are

At most 25 personas run at once. A persona that stops is retired, not deleted: its work and its record stay visible, so you see the ones that did badly as well as the ones that did well.