Open the deployment page

Every running deployment has a page, headed with the strategy's name and Change its limits and what it may do on its own. Only workspace owners and admins can use it.

  1. Open Deployments

    In Trade, click Deployments in the header. A Running row carries Pause and Stop, a Paused one Resume and Stop, and a Stopping one neither.

  2. Open the page

    Click the chevron at the end of the row. A strategy's own page under Strategies opens the same panel from Manage.

The page has Version, Limits and Trading permission sections, and a Now panel with the row's buttons and Save limits. Each act is recorded in Activity, with who or what made it.

The running-version notice

Version reads Runs v1, adding main is v3 once main moves on; to run another version, stop this one and deploy that. See Editing a strategy after it is deployed.

Pause and resume

To pause a running deployment:

  1. Click Pause

    A confirmation opens under the row, or under Save limits on the deployment's page. It reads New trades stop. Exits keep working. and It stays paused until it is resumed.

  2. Click Pause strategy

    Cancel backs out.

Orbital can pause a deployment itself, for example when it reaches its Daily loss pause or when what it was deployed with no longer holds. The row then reads New trades paused followed by the reason, and the person who deployed it gets a notification.

To resume a paused deployment:

  1. Click Resume

    The confirmation reads New trades start again at its next decision, within its limits. It says why it was paused, and for a cause Orbital keeps checking it adds If that still holds, it is paused again.

  2. Click Resume strategy

    Keep it paused backs out.

Stop

  1. Click Stop

    The confirmation reads Stopping is final: it never trades again, and it cannot be resumed. Nothing is sold: what it holds is left to its own exits. To close a position now, close it from Positions.

  2. Click Stop strategy

    Keep it backs out.

A deployment that still holds something reads Stopping until its own exits have closed what it holds; one already flat stops at once. Once stopped, it leaves the Running list, and the strategy can be deployed again. Its limits can no longer be changed.

Change the limits

The four limits and the trading permission can change while the deployment runs. The four limits explains each one.

  1. Edit the limits

    Budget, Max per trade and Daily loss pause take a percentage or dollars, switched with the % and $ buttons. Open positions and Daily loss pause may stay empty for no limit.

  2. Pick a trading permission

    A Rules or Program strategy stays on Always-approve, and an Agent strategy cannot take a mode wider than its agent's own permission. See The trading permission and The agent's own permissions.

  3. Click Save limits

    Lowering a limit opens a confirmation that reads This lowers what it may do. Raising one reads This lets it take on more. Check each change before it applies. and lists each change, old to new. A larger limit, a limit removed, a looser permission, or a limit moved between dollars and a percentage counts as a raise.

  4. Click Save limits again

    Back returns to the form. The answer reads Saved. Every new trade is checked against these limits.

The new limits apply from the strategy's next trade, including entries already waiting to be sent.

The account menu

The ⋯ button at the right of the header opens the account menu, headed with the account's name. Every row acts on that account only, in every project that trades it.

  • Pause all strategies: New trades stop. Exits keep working.
  • Cancel all open orders: Includes exits, so positions lose their stops.
  • Close all positions: Sells everything, and buys back anything short, at market.
  • Stop everything…: All three, in a safe order. Other accounts keep running.

  1. Pick a row

    A confirmation repeats the row's line. Stop everything… opens its own dialog instead.

  2. Confirm

    The button names the act, for example Cancel all orders or Close 7 positions. Keep them or Cancel backs out.

Close all positions also pauses each strategy that held one of those positions, with the reason one of its positions was closed by hand. No order is shown as canceled, and no position as closed, until Alpaca confirms it.

There is no resume-all. After a pause, resume each strategy from its own row.

Stop everything

Stop everything… opens a dialog listing its three steps, each waiting for the one before it. It names this project's strategies, but pauses every strategy on the account, in every project.

  1. Check the scope

    The note reads Only this account. and names any other connected account, which keeps running.

  2. Click Stop everything

    When the market is closed, it asks The market is closed. How should the positions be closed? Queue for the open sends market orders that fill when the next session opens. Limit orders now sends limit orders at the last price, working in extended hours. Then click Stop everything again.

  3. Follow the progress

    Each step shows a mark and its count. The last reads Closed 7 positions only once Alpaca confirms every fill.

  4. Close the panel when you like

    It keeps going, Activity records every step, and the menu's Stop everything… row reopens the panel. Until it finishes, new orders, cancels, closes and deploys on the account are refused.

If it could not finish, the title reads Could not stop everything on the account, and it says what to check.