Trading calendar

The trading calendar is the single source of truth for when and how the bot trades each ET hour of the week. It is a 7-by-24 grid — one slot per hour, per day — and you paint each slot with a mode. You set the calendar in Bot Control.

The default calendar reproduces the bot's built-in session behavior, so leaving it untouched changes nothing.

Slot modes

| Mode | What the bot does in that hour | |---|---| | Normal | Scans markets and can place new positions, with a per-slot volatility multiplier | | Deep-ITM | Places only on deeply in-the-money contracts that clear the stricter Deep-ITM thresholds — see Deep-ITM tuning | | Off | Still scans for telemetry, but never places new positions |

Painting a slot Off stops all new entries in that ET hour. Positions the bot already holds still settle normally regardless of the slot mode — the calendar only governs opening new positions. An all-Off calendar makes the bot scan-only.

Entry window

Within each trading hour, the entry window controls how late the bot will open new positions:

  • Entry Window — the number of minutes from the top of the hour during which the bot opens new positions. After that, it waits for the next hour.
  • Strict Entry Window — when on, the bot stops opening new positions once the window has expired, a hard cutoff before settlement.

The entry window is edited on the strategy's composition surface as an Entry-stage filter (it moved out of Bot Control when the cockpit was slimmed to calendar-and-safety controls).

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Time zones

The calendar can display in Eastern Time or UTC — use the toggle above the grid. This is display-only: slots are always stored in Eastern Time, so switching the view never changes when your strategies actually run. Your choice is remembered on this device.