Mark Live

No. Marking a strategy Live places no orders and moves no money. Fincanva has no broker connection at all — there is nothing for an order to be sent to. Going Live starts paper monitoring: the app follows the positions the strategy's rules imply and shows how that paper book would have performed, exactly as a backtest does, but continuing forward from today instead of stopping at the end of history.

The one place this can read like real trading is the order plan, which lists what the strategy would buy, sell and resize at its next rebalance. That list is a plan on paper — Fincanva does not act on it, and you would have to place any of those trades yourself, with your own broker, entirely at your own discretion.

Following stops — the strategy is not deleted, edited or hidden. It keeps its place in your library with its settings editable; what it loses is the following, and the results that came with it. Two different shortages stop a following. When your plan covers fewer Live strategies than you follow, you choose which ones keep being followed: on Starter, which covers 1, following 3 means keeping 1, and the other 2 stop — Choose which strategies stay Live is that dialog. When a strategy instead falls outside what your plan keeps active in your library, it is set aside and its following stops as a consequence; that set is decided for you, once, and the strategies you follow Live rank ahead of every other.

A strategy followed again after months is not the same as one followed throughout, and nothing in the app will tell you so. Fincanva records no interruption. Months of rebalances never happened: its current positions are what its rules imply today, and the order plan it now shows is the move from those positions, not from the ones someone following it throughout would hold. Keeping track of the gap is yours. Plan compliance covers the two reasons a strategy ends up outside a plan and how each clears.

You have backtested a strategy and want to watch how it behaves from here. You open it and select the raised Live key, whose tooltip reads "Go live"; a dialog asks "Mark this strategy as Live?" and you confirm with Mark as Live. The key turns bright green with the rising line moving — the strategy appears on the Live page, its star turns gold and locks, and Fincanva starts keeping its numbers current as new market days arrive.

No broker was connected and no trade was sent. Two months later you select the Live key again and confirm "Stop following this strategy?" with Stop following. The strategy leaves the Live page, the key goes back to neutral with its glyph grey and still, its star unlocks, and its settings and whole backtest history are untouched.