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Two screens tell you everything about what Live trading is doing: the Positions page, which covers everything at once, and the run view, which is one strategy in full detail.

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The Positions page

Open it from Positions on any Trade live row, or go to /trading/reconcile. It answers one question: does what my broker holds match what each live strategy believes it holds? Each row is one strategy: its name, its symbol, what the strategy believes, what the broker actually holds for it, and one action. Rows are grouped under a header per symbol, which shows the account’s net position in that instrument — see several strategies on one symbol for how that header splits.
The Positions page stays available even when auto-trading is switched off for your account. This is where you come to see and kill an open position, so it is never hidden from you.

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The verdict on each row

Some mismatches are transient and expected: a resting entry that hasn’t filled yet shows a difference against the strategy (which already believes the trade), and an order the broker hasn’t acknowledged yet shows as in flight. Both clear on the next read.

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The action column

The action on a row is its status. You never get a dead button.
Bounded repairs only. Fix may re-place a missing stop or target, resize an exit to the position actually held, cancel an order of Live trading’s own that is no longer wanted, and re-place a missing entry order. It never opens, reverses or enlarges a position.You can fix one strategy, every strategy on a symbol (Fix ES), or everything (Fix all). Anything Fix may not touch is listed on the row with the reason — never silently dropped — next to the control that is the remedy.Read the result literally: applied means the broker acknowledged every order the repair sent; anything refused or rejected is reported as skipped, with why.
The one action here that adds exposure, which is why it is its own button and never folded into Fix. It places a single market order — with the strategy’s own stop and target riding on it — so the strategy’s belief and your real position agree again, and Live trading follows the strategy from there.Where it is withheld, the ”!” in its place carries Live trading’s own reason: the strategy is flat, its belief is stale, orders are still in flight, an account question is open, or a slippage budget is set.
The mirror of Match strategy, and the answer to a gap no repair can close: decline the trade. Nothing is bought or sold — any entry still working for it is cancelled — and Live trading starts following the strategy again from its next flat.A skipped row reads as a good state, with a check rather than a ”!”: it is detached because you asked for it. The exception is a skip whose cancel lost the race to a fill — you really do hold something then, and the row says so.
Something needs your attention that neither a repair nor Match strategy can settle. Open it: you get the reasons in Live trading’s own words, and the kill switches that are the actual remedy.

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The run view

Run on any Trade live row opens one strategy in full:
  • State and any overlay (signal feed stale, trade skipped, detached).
  • Position — what the strategy believes, side by side with what Live trading holds at the broker. The broker column is labelled Broker (OMS).
  • The account’s position — shown when the account holds more than this one strategy. See several strategies on one symbol.
  • Working orders — role, side, type, quantity, price, status, and whether you now own that order because you modified it by hand.
  • Fills — with each fill’s slippage in ticks against the price the signal was generated at.
  • Divergences — every recorded difference: when, its cause, and what Live trading did about it.
  • The journal — the ordered record of everything that happened to this strategy and why.

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The states

Plus one overlay: signal feed stale — no signal for three minutes during the session. It clears on its own when signals resume.

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Why a strategy detached

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The controls

Pause, Cancel entries, Flatten now and Skip this trade only ever reduce exposure, so they stay available even if auto-trading is switched off for your account. Resume and Match strategy do not.

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Next steps

Several strategies on one symbol

How one broker position is split between strategies — and you.

When things go sideways

Change the behaviour that produced the state you’re looking at.