Manual by default

Four separate steps, in this order. None of them happens on its own, and stopping at any one of them leaves the mode off.

1. You switch the mode on

   In Settings, after reading the same description you are reading now and ticking a box that authorises automated trading in your account. The exact wording you agreed to is stored with the timestamp, so what you consented to can be produced later.

2. You supply your own broker credentials

   Automated execution runs through your own Zerodha Kite Connect subscription — ₹500 a month, paid to Zerodha, not to us. A key cannot be shared between accounts. Credentials are encrypted at rest, and the API that stores them holds no permission to read them back.

3. The engine seals a session’s picks

   After the close, and never after the fact. Nothing can be traded automatically that was not published for that session before the session it trades in opened.

4. The next morning, the decision loop runs

   At 09:20 IST, once the opening auction has settled, it asks one question per sealed pick: should this become an order for this account, given what you already hold and what you have permitted.

Entry orders only, and only to buy

A limit order to buy, priced at the entry the plan states, placed as a delivery (CNC) order. It fills only if price comes to the plan’s entry; if the market never trades there, nothing happens.

Only that session’s sealed picks

It places nothing the engine did not publish for that session. It forms no view of its own, screens nothing, and cannot act on a stock that did not pass every gate.

Sized by your own risk profile

Quantity comes from the capital and the per-trade risk you declared, through the same code that shows you the size on screen. The automated path cannot size a position differently from the one you were shown.

It never sells. No exit order, no stop-loss order and no target order is ever sent on your behalf — not to take a profit, not to cut a loss, and not when the system’s own rules say the trade is invalid. This is why the mode is called auto-entry rather than auto-trade.

This is a real limitation, not a reassurance, and it has a consequence worth stating in one sentence: a filled automated entry is unprotected until you place a stop at your broker yourself. Your stop lives in this app as a number; making it an order is your job, before the next session.

A filled automated order also does not yet appear as a position here — you log it like any other trade, and until you do, it is not in your portfolio heat.

A daily order cap

A maximum number of orders per day for your account. The loop stops at the cap rather than planning past it — a refused order and an order never formed are different things, and it does the second.

A maximum value per order

A ceiling on what any single order may be worth, held on your account and checked before sending.

Your risk limits, unchanged

The per-trade risk and portfolio heat limits on your trading profile apply exactly as they do to a trade you take by hand.

One order per intent, ever

A submission whose outcome is not known is never retried — not by a queue, not by an operator. A duplicate order is how somebody ends up holding twice the risk they authorised, so an unknown outcome becomes a case a person reconciles instead.

Halt, in one tap

Halting stops new orders immediately. It is checked per order, in the moment before each one is sent, so an order already decided but not yet sent is stopped too.

A halt never touches what you hold

Positions you already have are left alone. A halt that liquidated your book would be a worse outcome than the one you halted for.

Two independent halts

Yours, and one operations can apply. Neither clears the other: an account you halted stays halted whatever we do.

Switch the mode off entirely

Turning automated execution off returns the account to manual, which is where every account starts.

The rules that decide what is published in the first place — the regime weights, the liquidity floor, the trend template, the sizing formula and the limits of what this data supports — are on the method page. If something here is unclear or looks wrong, write to support@tradeorskip.com.

TradeOrSkip provides systematic market analytics and decision-support tools for NSE cash equities.

TradeOrSkip is not registered with SEBI as a Research Analyst or Investment Adviser. It is currently available free during the founding beta for educational and analytical use.

TradeOrSkip is manual by default: it does not place, modify or manage trades unless you explicitly enable automated execution for your own account, and that mode is disabled until you do. It never places an exit, a stop-loss or a target order. You decide whether to act on any information shown by the platform.

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