Trading — practice, not signals
PAPER mode, forward testing, strategy validation, regime-aware execution. Posts about the boring engineering practice of turning a strategy into a strategy you'd actually trust with real money.
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PAPER mode trading — the complete guide for risk-free crypto bot testing
Every Quantor user runs PAPER before LIVE. What PAPER simulates faithfully (entries, exits, fees, regime gates), what it deliberately approximates (slippage, partial fills, exchange downtime), how to read a PAPER P&L without lying to yourself, and the seven-item checklist for deciding when a strategy has earned the right to touch real money.
Read article →The regime detector — what we kill live trades on, and why
A 50-line classifier built on two retail-readable indicators (realized daily volatility, drawdown from peak) decides when Quantor refuses to start LIVE bots. The exact algorithm, the thresholds, the failure modes, the tradeoff.
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