Manual and automatic
Manual and automatic trading
Both modes run the same checks in the same order. The difference is who presses the button — not which rules apply.
Choose how you trade.
Both modes run the same checks in the same order. Only one step is different, and it is the step where a human either presses the button or has already said what may happen without them.
Manual
- OpportunityA setup the engine found, with a score, a horizon and a risk level.
- RecheckThe evidence is read again, now. Markets move between discovery and action.
- Account riskYour account is evaluated against the setup. Approved, limited, or refused.
- SizeThe size your account permits, decided by the platform.
- PreviewWhat an order would consist of. A description, not an instruction.
- You decideNothing leaves RayTrading until you act on it yourself.
With an external broker
You take the trade plan to whichever broker you already use. RayTrading never touches that account, and nothing about the workflow changes.
With a connected broker
RayTrading can read your account and size the trade against it. Submission through the connection is a future release; today the platform prepares, and you place.
Automatic
- OpportunityThe same setup, from the same engine.
- RecheckRuns immediately rather than when you happen to look.
- Account riskThe same evaluation, with the same authority to refuse.
- SizeThe same decision, made by the platform. Automatic does not get a larger number.
- Your standing policyThe ceiling you authorised in advance, applied without you present.
- Supported brokerA connection that declares it can act. An unsupported one refuses.
What a standing authorisation contains
- Broker
- A connection you have approved
- Capital allocation
- A ceiling you set
- Eligible horizons
- The horizons you allow
- Risk policy
- Your account's limits, unchanged
- Mode
- Automatic
- Automatic trading
- OFF
This is a description of the record, not a control. Automatic execution is designed and built into the product's architecture, and it is not open for real orders — so there is no switch here, and deliberately no greyed-out switch either. A disabled control tells you a feature is one permission away. This one is not.
You say how much is available. RayTrading says how much is safe.
Two different numbers, and RayTrading never confuses them. You set the first. The platform decides the second. The smaller of the two is what happens.
Illustration — not an account
Allocation is what you are willing to authorise. Account risk is what RayTrading currently permits. They are not the same thing, and the platform will not quietly raise one to match the other.
What your broker decides, and what we do.
What you can do in RayTrading depends on how your broker is connected. Rather than showing controls that would fail, the platform shows what each way of working can actually do — read from the connector registry, not written into this page.
| Manual, external brokerYou use your own broker. RayTrading has no connection to it. | Manual, connected brokerRayTrading can read the account. You still place every order. | Automatic, supported brokerA standing authorisation acts within your ceiling. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Account readBalance and buying power | Not applicable | Available | Available |
| Positions readWhat you currently hold | Not applicable | Available | Available |
| Order previewWhat an order would consist of | Available | Available | Available |
| Paper submitRayTrading's own simulator | Not applicable | Available | Available |
| Live submitA real order at a real broker | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not open yet |
| Automatic executionActing without you present | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not open yet |
“Not applicable” and “not open yet” are different answers. The first is a boundary of how that connection works and will not change. The second is a date we have not reached. No connector currently declares automatic execution, and RayTrading does not submit live orders regardless of what a broker supports.