A checklist before you run a bot with real money

Moving a strategy from demo to a funded account is the moment the work starts paying off. Run through this list first and you go in with the settings deliberate rather than inherited, whether you built the bot, imported it, or picked one off a card.

Before you run it at all

1. Can you describe the entry rule in one sentence? If not, you do not know what the bot does. Open it in the builder and read the purchase condition until you can. Every bot on BinaryTick explains its rule under How it works on its card, so this should take seconds.

2. Do you know what it loses, not just how often it wins? A win rate on its own is only half the picture. A contract that wins on nine digits out of ten wins small and loses large, so the size of that tenth trade is the number that decides how the session feels.

3. Do you know how it behaves on a bad run? Not just what it does when it wins. Every bot on BinaryTick spells out its entry rule on its card, so you can reason about the runs it will produce before you ever press Run.

The settings

4. Is the martingale multiplier where you want it? At 1 the stake never changes. Above 1 it grows after each loss. It is the setting with the largest effect on your stake, which is why the bots here that use one arrive with it sized from their contract, at no more than 2.1x, and paired with a max stake that keeps the ladder inside the stop loss. The card states the setup in one line, and the Use martingale tick box switches to a flat stake.

5. Is there a max stake? Without it a martingale sequence is unbounded. With it, the sequence resets to the initial stake instead of climbing until your balance cannot fund the next trade.

6. Is the stop loss an amount you would actually accept? Not a number that feels safe because it is large. A figure you could lose today without it changing anything.

7. Is there a take profit? A good run is only realised once you stop. Deciding in advance when a session ends removes the decision from the moment you are least able to make it.

8. Is max losses in a row set? This catches a bad run by its pattern rather than by its size, which is earlier and cheaper.

The testing

9. Have you run it long enough to know it? A hundred trades is noise. Run the strategy on a demo balance until you have watched a full cycle, the good stretches and the flat ones, because that is what tells you which settings suit you. Demo trades cost nothing and there is no limit on them.

10. Do you know what happens if the tab closes? Bots run in your browser, not on our servers. Closing the tab, letting the device sleep, or losing connection stops the bot. It does not close positions that are already open, which continue to their own expiry. Knowing this before it happens is better than discovering it.

Two questions about the source

If someone gave you the bot, or you downloaded it:

Who benefits from you running this? A strategy sold to you, or given away to attract you to a referral link, has an incentive attached that is not aligned with your balance.

Does it promise something impossible? "No loss" strategies do not remove losses, they reshape them. What they usually do is hide frequent small losses inside a martingale sequence, converting them into a rare, very large one. That is a different risk profile, not a safer one.

The thing worth getting right first

What automation gives you is consistency, speed, and limits that hold when your judgment would not. Those are worth having, and they are the reason to use a bot at all.

So approach it as a way to run a rule you have chosen deliberately, with a loss you have decided in advance that you can accept. Set the limits before the entry logic, and the tool does what it is good for.

Every account starts on a demo balance, and every strategy here is free to run. There is no cost to being thorough.