A checklist before you run a bot with real money

Moving a strategy from demo to a funded account is the point where mistakes start costing money. This is the list worth going through first, 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 ready-made strategy on BinaryTick states its rule on the 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 not information. A strategy winning nine times in ten can still drain an account if the tenth loss is large enough, which for most digit contracts it is.

3. Have you read the risk note? Each strategy we ship carries one, and they are deliberately blunt. If a bot from elsewhere has no equivalent warning, that absence is itself information about the source.

The settings

4. Is the martingale multiplier where you want it? At 1 the stake never changes. Above 1 it grows after each loss. This is the setting most likely to empty an account, and it is the one people change first.

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? On instruments priced with a margin, a bot left running gives profits back. 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 lose? A hundred trades is noise. Run the strategy on a demo balance until you have watched it go through a genuinely bad stretch, because that is the behaviour that decides whether you can keep using it. A profitable first session tells you almost nothing.

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 accepting first

None of the ready-made strategies on BinaryTick have a positive expected value, and their cards say so. That is a property of the contracts rather than of these particular bots, and any strategy on any platform trading the same instruments faces the same arithmetic.

What automation gives you is consistency, speed, and limits that hold when your judgment would not. Those are worth having. 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, 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.