Paper trading runs your strategy against live market data using simulated funds — no real money is ever at risk. Each Mobius account gets an isolated Alpaca paper trading account, so your results are completely separate from anyone else’s. You can deploy any saved bot, run it at a scheduled frequency, and monitor performance in real time through the Deployment Monitor.Documentation Index
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Paper trading uses simulated money. No real funds are at risk.
Deploy a bot to paper trading
Open a saved bot
Navigate to My Bots in the left sidebar and open the bot you want to deploy. The bot must be saved before you can deploy it. If you haven’t run a backtest yet, complete one to verify the strategy behaves as expected.
Click Deploy
Click the Deploy button on the bot detail page. This opens the deployment configuration panel.
Select Paper Trading
Make sure Paper Trading is selected as the execution venue. This is the default.
Choose an execution frequency
Select how often the bot evaluates its signals: 1 min, 5 min, 15 min, 30 min, 1 hour, or Daily. Match this to the bar frequency used in your backtest.
Click Create Deployment
The deployment is created with a
created status. The trading engine has not started yet.Click Activate
On the deployment detail page, click Activate to start the live engine. The bot will begin evaluating signals at every scheduled interval during market hours.
Execution frequency guide
| Frequency | Best for | Max backtest period |
|---|---|---|
| 1 min | Scalping, intraday | 30 days |
| 5 min | Short-term intraday | 180 days |
| 15 min | Swing intraday | 2 years |
| 30 min | Swing | 3 years |
| 1 hour | Swing / trend | 5 years |
| Daily | Long-term trend | 5 years |
Monitor performance
The Deployment Monitor dashboard gives you a live view of your bot’s activity and portfolio health. Portfolio metrics:- Portfolio value — total account value (cash + positions)
- Cash — uninvested balance available for new trades
- Positions value — current market value of all open positions
- Total return % — cumulative return since deployment started
- Daily P&L — profit or loss for the current trading day
- Unrealized P&L — gain or loss on open positions at current prices
- Realized P&L — gain or loss on all closed positions
Pause and resume
Use Pause to temporarily stop new trades without ending the deployment. Existing positions remain open and unaffected. Click Resume to restart the engine — the bot picks up at the next scheduled interval.Stop a deployment
Click Stop to permanently end a deployment. The bot will not run again and cannot be reactivated. When stopping, you can optionally close all open positions — this instructs the paper account to sell all current holdings at market price. If you leave this option off, open positions remain in your paper account but are no longer managed by the bot. To stop all running deployments at once (for example, during unusual market conditions), use the Stop All option in the Deployments panel.Plan limits
| Plan | Active deployments |
|---|---|
| Free | 1 |
| Pro | 5 |
| Elite | 25 |