Backtests now trade like bots

A backtest now works every order exactly the way a live bot would — same starting price, same patient steps toward the market — so results describe what a bot would really have done. All stored results were reset; recompute any strategy with one click.

Today's update closes a gap between two things that should never have disagreed: what a bot does with your strategy during a live session, and what a backtest says that strategy would have done.

Backtests now work orders the way bots do. A bot doesn't post an order at one price and hope. It starts patient — at a fair price for the spread it's trading — and if the market doesn't come to it, it steps its price toward the market on a schedule until the order fills or the attempt is abandoned. Until now, backtests didn't do that: they placed an order once, at one price, and waited. From today a backtest works every order exactly the way a bot would — same starting price, same steps, same pacing. When a backtest says a strategy earned something, it's describing what a bot running that strategy would actually have done, order by order.

Your results were reset — recompute with one click. Because the engine that produces the numbers changed, results computed under the old one aren't comparable and we've cleared them. Open any of your strategies and you'll see a recompute prompt; one click rebuilds its coverage, exactly like backtesting a new strategy. Expect the recomputed numbers to differ from what you remember — they now include the cost, and occasionally the benefit, of working an order instead of parking it.

A few smaller things in the same release:

A bot that finishes its trading early — hits its target, goes flat, or is stopped — now stays on the Trade page for the rest of the day. Its day moves to Replay and Analyze after the closing bell, like every other account. Finishing early ends the session, not the day.
If a bot's entry order runs into a momentary hiccup on its way to the book, the bot now retries it safely within its entry window instead of quietly sitting out the day.
Opening a session in the first moments of the trading day no longer flashes an error while the day's data is still warming up — the screen now simply waits for the data to begin.

Nothing about how you write, save, or run a strategy changes. The change is that a backtest, a practice session, and a bot now speak the same language — and the numbers you plan around got closer to the truth again.