Run strategies from Photon

You can use the Photon UI to load, run, and manage strategies. It all starts from the Strategy Control menu.

Before you start

To run strategies from Photon, you need to the following:

• Connection to a DARE server
• Photon installed
• A compiled JAR file with your strategy.

Load a strategy

To load a strategy, follow these steps:

1. Select Load strategy.
2. Choose the JAR file you want to upload.
3. Name the strategy

If it loads correctly, it appears in strategy control with the status Stopped.

Start strategy

After you've loaded a strategy, you can start and stop it.

To do so,

1. Right click the strategy.
2. Select Start.

If the strategy starts correctly, Marketcetera changes the status to Started. Trading activity related to the strategy is reported in the events log. Otherwise, the status is Error, and Marketcetera reports the error message in the event log.

To stop the strategy, right click and select Stop.

Unload a strategy

If you no longer want to use a strategy, right click and select Unload.