HOW TO USE ALGORY

A campaign is one breeding run. You tell Algory what to search and it does the rest.

1. On the CONTROL tab, pick your markets and timeframes under TARGETS, and your risk percent and starting balance under PARAMETERS.
2. Set your prop-firm guardrails first: News Filter, Daily Drawdown Limit, Friday Close, and the exposure caps Symbol Lock and Max Agg Risk. These get baked into the strategy's DNA at breeding time, so they must be right before you run.
3. Hit LAUNCH in the header (the run controls sit at the top of every tab). The genetic engine breeds and tests thousands of strategies. The ones that survive every generation and pass out-of-sample validation drop into your Vault automatically.

Not every survivor is one you want to trade. Check each before you build it into a portfolio.

1. Open the VAULT tab and click a strategy. The Inspector opens on the right with the full passport.
2. Check the Algory Score, the archetype and mechanism, the DNA, and the equity curve. The blue part of the curve is out-of-sample, data the strategy never trained on, and it is the honest part.
3. Confirm the guardrails and settings match what you set for the campaign. If something looks wrong, run a fresh campaign with the correct settings.

This is the step that makes Algory work for you. One bot is one specialist. A portfolio is a hand-picked team of them that do not all win or lose at the same time, so the account stays smoother. You assemble it yourself from the Vault.

1. In the Vault, right-click a strategy you like and choose ADD TO PORTFOLIO. Pick an existing portfolio or create a new one. The same button sits in the Inspector.
2. Repeat until you have a real team. Twenty to forty strategies is the sweet spot; spread them across different markets, timeframes and archetypes, so they trade for different reasons and not all at once.
3. Open the PORTFOLIOS tab to see the team: every member's stats, the combined equity curve, and the DIVERSITY GRADE scoring how well spread it is. Aim for a high grade.
4. A low grade names the axis that is too concentrated, which tells you which campaigns to run next to fill the gaps. REMOVE on a member row drops it from the team.

Deploying compiles each strategy into a real MT5 bot (an Expert Advisor) and drops it straight into your MT5 Experts folder. You can do the whole portfolio at once.

1. On the PORTFOLIOS tab, set SCOPE to ALL and press DEPLOY to compile every bot in the portfolio in one go. For a single strategy, right-click it in the Vault and choose DEPLOY.
2. Confirm the popup that shows how many strategies will be compiled and where they are going.
3. If News Filter is on, a reminder popup appears (the MT5 news calendar only works on live or demo accounts, not the Strategy Tester). Click COMPILE to continue.
4. In MT5, right-click inside the Navigator panel and click Refresh. Your bots now appear under Expert Advisors.

The parity test proves the MT5 bot takes the same trades as Algory's backtest. It is your safety check before any money is involved.

1. In MT5, open the Strategy Tester (Ctrl+R) and switch to Single mode.
2. Set the bot, the exact symbol and timeframe it was bred on, a start date equal to the strategy's first trade date, and modelling set to 1 minute OHLC (Algory resolves fills on M1 sub-bars, not ticks, so this matches it and runs in seconds).
3. Run it. Compare the net return to Algory's; they should be in the same ballpark. Then read the Parity Score in the Journal tab.

Before live money, let the bots prove themselves on a demo account against fresh market data.

1. Drag each bot from the Navigator onto a chart with its correct symbol and timeframe.
2. Turn on AutoTrading (the green button) and tick Allow Algo Trading in each bot's settings.
3. Let them run for a week or two. Check they trade during the right session hours, respect News and Friday Close, and the combined equity curve is heading the right way.

Once the demo run looks healthy, move the portfolio to your live or funded account.

1. Attach each bot to the same chart on your live or funded account and enable AutoTrading.
2. Set your account heat (your total risk if every trade that can be open hit its stop at once) below 3.5 percent on prop-firm accounts, or up to 10 percent on a personal account. With Symbol Lock on, divide your target by your number of symbols to get each bot's risk; the Portfolio & Risk guide has the full arithmetic.
3. Do not change a bot's inputs, and never re-optimise it in MT5's tester. That curve-fits it and destroys the edge. To refine a strategy, run a new Algory campaign instead.