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Quickstart Guide and Best Practices

Octopi Trader Installation Quickstart Guide

Octopi Trader Installation, Basic Configuration & Troubleshooting This document helps users wa...

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First Time Install

Octopi Trader Installation Initial Installation

Once signed up for one of our subscription tiers, you will receive an email with the following in...

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Tags

Octopi Trader User Guide Tags

Tags serve a purely organizational purpose. You may create multiple logical tags, tag your Strate...

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Persistent Variables

Octopi Trader User Guide Variables

Variables, or Persistent Variables are made to further unlock configuration potential by allowing...

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Signals

Octopi Trader User Guide Signal Builder

Signals are the core of any strategy. They return a True when all of the conditions described ins...

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Orders

Octopi Trader User Guide Orders

All orders OP manages MUST be created in pairs (target/stop). This feature/design does not restri...

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Strategies (Plugins)

Octopi Trader User Guide Strategies

Overall, there are three types of Plugins available categorized by time of effect: Placement, P...

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Strategies (Main)

Octopi Trader User Guide Strategies

Strategies are the center of Octopi execution. Most items involved in making one can now be creat...

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Settings

Octopi Trader User Guide Operations

Instance Name sets the window name. Useful when running multiple Octopi to keep organized. La...

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Sierra Chart

Octopi Trader User Guide Operations

Helper buttons to resolve issues. One Resets Sierra Chart Controller study Other finds and En...

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Trade Policies

Octopi Trader User Guide Operations

Global Max Risk sets maximum global (across all strategies within the same configuration) risk ...

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Log and Monitor

Octopi Trader User Guide Operations

Log and Monitor allows live (or near-live when replay speed is too fast) asynchronous OP status l...

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Operations Experimental

Octopi Trader User Guide Operations

SC Control allows users to control Sierra Chart replays by creating and saving custom replay prof...

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Operations

Octopi Trader User Guide Operations

Edit Configurations Opens separate config management interface. Buttons are self-explanatory, b...

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New Feature Highlight

Octopi Trader User Guide What's new?

New functionality:  Persistent “Variables” feature - allows creation of custom trade conditi...

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New in OP V100

Octopi Trader User Guide Summary

Version 100+ is now a “Strategies” centric builder. Signals, Orders, Studies (formerly Custom Stu...

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Studies

Octopi Trader User Guide Custom Studies

Studies are very similar to signals, except Signals return a True or False, Studies return a Valu...

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