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title: "Build a Combined step by step"
description: "Walk a Combined's five chapters in Step by step — Sub-strategies, Allocation, Rebalance, Risk and Summary — and open each sub-strategy's walk from there."
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# Build a Combined step by step

A [Combined](/glossary/combined)'s [Step by step](/glossary/step-by-step) walks five chapters that act on the Combined itself — **Sub-strategies**, **Allocation**, **Rebalance**, **Risk** and **Summary** — while each [member strategy](/glossary/sub-strategy) keeps a walk of its own.

## Steps

1. **Create the Combined.** In **Create new**, press **Combined**; it needs strategies of your own to combine — see [What does the Combined tile do?](/docs/strategies/create-a-strategy-and-choose-its-instruments#what-does-the-combined-tile-do) There is no strategy-type chapter: the type belongs to each [strategy](/glossary/strategy) inside.
2. **Fill Sub-strategies.** The chapter lists the Combined's sub-strategies, each with its progress — "3 of 5", or "3 of 5 · to finish" while a required chapter is open, counting required chapters only — the title of its most serious alert, and one action: **Open**, **Fix ›** with a chapter's name when that chapter holds a blocking alert, or **Continue ›** with one when the strategy is unfinished. A strategy kept aside is tagged **Kept aside**.
3. **Add a strategy.** **Add a strategy** opens a side panel — "Pick one of your strategies to copy in, or start a blank one." — with **Create a blank strategy** and your strategies, each marked **Add**, or **In use** when already inside. Adding one asks "Add a copy of" with its name: it copies a snapshot, so the original is untouched.
4. **Set Allocation and Rebalance.** **Allocation** has the same three pages as a strategy's, applied to the Combined's own capital, and opens with "The Combined's allocation and risk sit above each sub-strategy's own: the backtest applies both." **Rebalance** sets how often the Combined rebalances.
5. **Add Risk if you want it.** **Risk** is optional and holds **When** and **Then: Risk-Off** — no **Exits**, because each strategy keeps its own.
6. **Run it from the Summary**, as for a strategy — see [Build a strategy step by step](/docs/strategies/build-a-strategy-step-by-step).

**Done.** The Combined runs with its own allocation and risk layered over each strategy's — see [Combined level](/glossary/combined-level).

## How do you edit a strategy inside the Combined?

Through its own Step by step: **Open**, **Fix ›** or **Continue ›** in **Sub-strategies** takes you into that strategy's walk, with **Back to the Combined** at the top of its chapter map. In the strategy tabs above, a member carries a mark — **Blocks the backtest**, **To evaluate**, or **To finish**, the last only in Step by step. An unfinished member does not stop the Combined's [backtest](/glossary/backtest); a blocking alert on a member does, as the run gate states.

## What if the Combined holds fewer than two strategies?

It is an [Incomplete Combined](/glossary/incomplete-combined) and cannot run. It opens this same walk, and its **Sub-strategies** chapter is where you fix it — add a strategy, or switch a kept-aside one back on.

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