How to Archive a Bot

Archiving removes a bot from your active Bot Management view without permanently deleting its configuration or trade history. This keeps your workspace focused on strategies you're currently running while preserving historical data for inactive bots.

When to Archive a Bot

Archive bots when you've finished testing a strategy and determined it's not profitable enough to continue running. This is common when backtesting multiple approaches and narrowing down to your best performers.

You should also archive bots during seasonal breaks from trading. If you take time off or want to pause automated trading during volatile market periods, archiving keeps the bot configuration intact for easy reactivation later.

Archive underperforming bots rather than deleting them. Even failed strategies provide valuable data about what doesn't work, and you may want to reference the configuration or trade history in the future.

Bots that you've replaced with improved versions should be archived. If you've cloned a bot and made significant improvements to the clone, archive the original to avoid confusion while maintaining the historical record.

Archiving a Bot

In the Bot Management table, locate the bot you want to archive. Click the archive icon (trash icon) in the Actions column on the right side of the row. The bot immediately moves out of your active Bot Management view.

What Happens When You Archive

Archived bots no longer appear in your main Bot Management table by default. This declutters your workspace and makes it easier to monitor only your active strategies.

The bot immediately stops accepting new signals. If the signal that powers this bot fires, the archived bot will not enter any new positions. This prevents unwanted executions if you forget to disconnect the signal source.

Open positions remain active and continue following the bot's exit strategy. Archiving doesn't force-close your positions, so if you have trades running when you archive, they'll still take profit or stop out according to the configured rules.

The bot's complete trade history is preserved. All past trades, P&L data, win rates, and performance metrics remain accessible even after archiving. This lets you analyze the strategy's results even though it's no longer active.

Risk controls like daily loss caps continue applying to open positions. If you have positions from an archived bot and they hit the daily loss cap, the bot respects that limit even though it's archived.

Viewing Archived Bots

Toggle the Show Archived option in the Bot Management page to view bots you've archived. From this view, you can see all archived bot configurations, their final performance statistics, and choose to either restore them to active status or permanently delete them.

The archived view shows the same metrics as your active bots, including final win rate, total P&L, and number of trades executed. This makes it easy to compare archived strategies and decide if any deserve a second look.

Restoring an Archived Bot

Restoring an archived bot reactivates its signal connection and places it back in your active Bot Management table. The bot immediately begins listening for signals again and will execute trades according to its configured strategy.

All settings remain exactly as they were when you archived the bot. Entry windows, risk parameters, position sizing, and exit strategies are unchanged. You can restore a bot and it will operate identically to how it did before archiving.

If you want to restore a bot but with modified settings, edit the bot after restoring it rather than trying to change settings while it's archived.

Before You Archive

Check if the bot has open positions. While archiving doesn't close positions, it does stop new entries. If you want to completely exit a strategy, manually close all positions first, then archive the bot.

Verify that other bots don't depend on learnings from this strategy. If you're running multiple bots that share a signal source or similar parameters, archiving one bot might give you false confidence in the approach if the other bots start failing too.

Consider whether you might want to reactivate this bot seasonally. Some strategies only work during specific market regimes or times of year. If there's a chance you'll want to resume this strategy in the future, archiving is better than deleting.

Archiving vs Pausing

Don't confuse archiving with pausing. Archiving moves the bot out of your active workspace and stops signal processing entirely. Pausing (if available in your interface) temporarily disables a bot while keeping it in your active view.

Use archiving for bots you don't expect to run again soon. Use pausing for short-term breaks like holiday weeks or days when you want to sit out of the market.

Performance Data After Archiving

Archived bots continue contributing to your overall account statistics in the Bot Management dashboard. Your total P&L, average win rate, and trade count include data from archived bots, giving you a complete picture of your trading history.

If you want to analyze only your current active strategies, filter the dashboard to exclude archived bots. This lets you see how your live strategies perform independently from your historical experiments.

Permanently Deleting Archived Bots

Once a bot is archived, you have the option to permanently delete it. This is irreversible and removes all configuration data and trade history for that bot.

Only delete archived bots when you're certain you'll never need to reference their data. Most traders keep archived bots indefinitely since they don't impact performance and the historical data remains valuable for learning.

If you're concerned about workspace clutter, archiving alone solves that problem. Deletion is rarely necessary unless you're trying to completely remove a failed approach from your records.