NEW BOTS START SMALL AND EARN THEIR RISK ON LIVE RESULTS.
A backtest is a promise. Live trading is proof. Incubation is the bridge between the two: every bot you deploy starts at a quarter of the risk you set, trades real money in small size, and earns its way up to full risk by actually doing well.
The payoff is simple. A good bot climbs to full size in a few weeks and you do nothing. A bad bot shows its true colours while it is only risking a quarter of normal, so finding out costs you a fraction of what it used to. You set the risk you want. Incubation decides when a bot has earned it.
PROOF BEFORE SIZE
[ IN-SAMPLE: WHERE YOU FOUND IT ][ OUT-OF-SAMPLE: DATA IT NEVER SAW ]
Every Algory bot already proves itself on data it never trained on before it reaches your Vault. Incubation extends the same idea into the live market, which is the only test that cannot be gamed: real spread, real fills, real conditions.
Until a bot has live results, its edge is an estimate. So it trades small. As real trades come in and look healthy, its size steps up. That is the whole feature: size follows proof.
25 - 50 - 100
% OF YOUR RISK, IN STEPS
AUTOMATIC
GOOD BOTS CLIMB ALONE
NO RESTARTS
RISK CHANGES LIVE
YOUR CALL
ONE TICK TO OPT OUT
01WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DEPLOY
Nothing about deploying changes. You pick a strategy, press FULL DEPLOY, type your risk. The one new thing is a ticked box: START IN INCUBATION.
The risk you type becomes the bot's target, the number it is working toward.
The bot goes live immediately at 25% of that target. If you type 0.5%, it starts at about 0.13% per trade.
The deploy message tells you exactly what it started at, so there are no surprises.
Press WHAT TO EXPECT next to the box for a picture of the whole journey before you deploy.
NOTEIt trades real money from day one
Incubation is not a demo mode or a paper trade. The bot is live on your account from the first minute, just in a smaller size. Small real trades are the fastest honest way to learn whether a bot is any good.
02HOW A BOT EARNS ITS RISK
The ladder has three rungs: INCUBATION at 25%, PROVING at 50%, FULL at 100%. A bot climbs by showing healthy live results, and there are two ways up each rung.
By results: around 10 healthy live trades lifts a bot to 50%, and around 30 with a profitable record lifts it to full.
By time: a bot that trades less often climbs anyway, about 2 clean weeks to 50% and about 6 clean weeks to full, as long as its record stays healthy.
Hot start: a bot that comes out swinging, winning most of its first trades in a way its own history says is remarkable, skips the wait and steps up right away.
TIPWhat counts as healthy
Profits at or above break-even, no decay warning, and a normal amount of trading for that strategy. That is it. No paperwork, no settings to tune.
03WHAT HOLDS A BOT DOWN
This is the half of the feature that saves accounts. A bot that is not earning its next rung stays where it is, and its losses stay a quarter of what they would have been at full size.
A losing record holds a bot down. It cannot climb on time served while it is underwater.
A decay warning holds it down. If Algory's monitoring flags the edge as fading, the bot stops climbing.
Trading far less than its backtest promised holds it down too. Silence is a warning sign, not a pass.
The ladder shows you exactly which of these is holding a bot, so replacing it is an easy decision made early and cheaply.
04THE INCUBATION LADDER
The PORTFOLIOS page has three sub-tabs now: STRATEGIES, HEALTH and INCUBATION. Open INCUBATION and the ladder fills the tab with the deployed bots in the portfolio you have selected.
Every bot on the ladder is listed with its rung, its current risk against its target, its live trades, and whether its edge is HOLDING, WEAKENING or REPLACE.
AUTO owns the ladder while it is on: bots that pass every check step up on their own and the running bot picks up its new size within minutes with no MetaTrader restart, and turning AUTO on asks you first before setting every bot to the rung its live results have already earned.
Prefer to approve each step yourself? Turn AUTO off and a GRADUATE button appears when a bot has earned its move.
Bots deployed before this feature show NO TIER. Nothing changes for them until their next deploy, when they join the ladder like everything else.
TIPClick a bot to see exactly why
Every row opens. Inside are the checks behind that bot's rung, up to five of them: enough live trades, time in tier, making money, no decay warning, and trading normally. Only the checks that apply to that bot appear, so a young one shows fewer. Each is marked PASS or HELD with the real number beside it, and a closing line says whether it is ready to move or what it is still waiting for. You never have to guess why a bot is sitting still, and you can see a graduation coming before it lands.
05THE ALGORY PILOT MAKES IT WORK
The Algory Pilot is a small helper that sits on one MetaTrader chart and records what your bots actually do live. That record is the evidence the ladder runs on.
You do not need to set it up. Full Deploy installs the Pilot and puts it on a chart automatically.
If it ever goes missing, a banner appears at the top of the PORTFOLIOS page with a REDEPLOY PILOT button. One click brings it back.
While the Pilot is away your bots keep trading, but nothing can climb, because Algory cannot see the results.
HEADS UPLeave the Pilot on its chart
Removing the Pilot does not stop your bots, it blinds the ladder. If you see the banner, press the button. Everything reattaches in one MetaTrader restart and your open positions are not touched.
06YOUR CHOICES
Incubation is on by default because it is the safer way to put a new bot on real money. It is also entirely optional.
Untick START IN INCUBATION on the deploy screen and that bot trades your full risk from day one.
Turn AUTO off on the ladder if you want every step up to wait for your click.
Risk changes only ever apply to new trades. Nothing incubation does touches a position that is already open.
QUICK ANSWERS
Does incubation close or resize my open trades?
Never. A step up or down only changes the size of new trades. Positions that are already open run to their normal exit untouched.
How long until a bot reaches full risk?
A few weeks for most bots: about 2 clean weeks to half size and about 6 to full. An active bot with a strong record gets there faster, and a bot that starts on a genuine win streak can skip the waiting entirely.
Why did my bot deploy at a smaller risk than I typed?
That is incubation working. The number you typed is the target, and the bot starts at a quarter of it. The deploy message shows both numbers, and the ladder shows the climb.
What does NO TIER mean on the ladder?
That bot was deployed before incubation existed. It keeps trading exactly as it always has, and it joins the ladder the next time you deploy it.
My whole book is small right now. Is that a problem?
It is the point. A fresh book at quarter risk means a bad week from unproven bots costs a quarter of what it used to. As bots prove themselves the book grows into its full size, and the proven ones carry full risk.
Can I turn it off?
Yes, per deploy. Untick START IN INCUBATION and that bot trades the full amount from day one. The box remembers your choice.
PROOF BEFORE SIZE
Deploy the way you always have. Your bots start small, prove themselves on real trades, and earn the risk you set. The good ones climb on their own. The bad ones stay cheap. That is incubation.