Deploying a backtest

At the bottom of every finished backtest result there is a Deploy as copy trade button. It takes you to the copy-trading page with the form already filled in from the run. It does not create anything on its own. You still press Create copy trade.

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It arrives paused

The copy trade this produces is created switched off, and the banner on the form says so. That is deliberate. A simulation assumes every admitted order filled — no queue, no partial fills, no latency — so a one-click hop from a promising number to a live strategy mirroring a stranger with real money is exactly the wrong default. Nothing is copied until you turn the Active switch on under Active copy trades. The pause holds however you edit the form. Dismissing the banner discards the carried filters and nothing else — the copy trade is still created switched off, and the banner stays on screen saying so.

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What carries over

Everything from the run that a live copy trade actually has a setting for:

• the target wallet
• the sizing — percentage or fixed USDC, in whichever mode you ran
• reverse sides, copy buys, copy sells
• the entry price band, and the ignore-under / ignore-over bounds
• minimum and maximum per trade, and buy-at-the-minimum
• the spend caps: total, per market, per YES, per NO
• the market gates: seconds from resolution, seconds from open, maximum holders, market tags

All of it is sent with the copy trade. The banner lists the subset worth announcing: carried settings the seven-field form has no input for and which differ from what a copy trade would have done anyway. A flag left at its default — copy buys on, reverse sides off — is still carried but is not listed, so that the price band or spend cap you actually chose is not buried under four rows of defaults. Anything you type in the form wins over a carried value. The X on the banner discards those carried filters, leaving the form’s own values. It appears only when there is something in the list to discard.

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What does not carry over

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Slippage

This is the one that surprises people, and it is on purpose. In the simulator, slippage is an execution cost: the fill is booked at a worse price, and it always happens. On a live copy trade, slippage is a fill-or-kill tolerance: it is the worst price the order may cross to, and an order outside it does not fill at all. Carry a 1% simulated cost across as a 1% live tolerance and you would silently convert a configuration you validated on a full tape into one that rejects most of the fills it was validated on. So the fields are left blank and the live default applies. Set your own in the form if you want something else. Backtest fidelity covers the rest of the gap between a simulation and a live copy trade.

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Sim-only controls

Starting capital, the category allowlist, and the required and excluded keyword lists exist only in the simulator. There is nothing to deploy them into. If your run used any of them, the result page names them under the deploy button so you know which part of the configuration is not coming with you.

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Order types

The simulator has no concept of an order type — it books every admitted order as filled — so it has no opinion to carry. The copy-trade form’s own default stands.

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After you deploy

The form is prefilled, not submitted. Check it, adjust anything you want, and press Create copy trade. It lands in Active copy trades, switched off, and the form clears. Start it with the Active switch when you are ready. Pressing Back afterwards does not bring the prefill with it — a successful deploy releases it, so you cannot create the same copy trade twice by navigating. Settings you cannot reach from this form are documented in Copy-trade settings.

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