How Apathia works

1. Setting up trading pairs
2. Adding strategies
3. Creating signals or trades from a strategy
4. Backtesting walkthrough
5. Chart page walkthrough

1. Setting up trading pairs

A trading pair is the market a strategy watches, such as BTC/USDT on spot.

1. If no exchange is enabled yet, open Exchanges and enable one.
2. Open Trading Pairs and click Add Trading Pair.
3. Pick the Exchange, then the Market type (for example spot), then the Base currency.
4. Choose one or more Pairs, such as BTC/USDT, and click Save.

Paper trading needs no API keys: Apathia reads public prices from the exchange.

2. Adding strategies

Start from a ready-made strategy, or build your own from entry and exit rules.

From the Strategy Library

1. Open Strategies and click Strategy Library.
2. Open a strategy, for example Golden Cross, and read How it works.
3. Click Add to my strategies. It is now an ordinary strategy you can edit.

Build your own

1. On Strategies, click Create Strategy.
2. Set the Main timeframe and choose Buy (long) or Sell (short).
3. Add entry conditions, such as "RSI crosses above 30". A new condition starts on your User default settings for that indicator, or the System default when you have none.
4. Pick an exit: Standard Exit (take-profit and stop-loss), Indicator-Based Exit or Buy and Hold, optionally with a time stop.
5. Click Save. The builder warns you about settings that may not do what you expect.

3. Creating signals or trades from a strategy

A signal alerts you when a strategy fires. A trade runs the strategy for you, with play money (paper) to start.

A signal (alerts)

1. Open Signals and click Create Signal.
2. Give it a Name, then pick the Strategy and the Trading pair.
3. Under Alert on, choose Entry only or Entry and exit. Under Trigger, choose On candle close or On candle touch.
4. Choose the Notification methods (Telegram, Discord, email or a webhook; see the documentation to set them up), then click Save Signal.

A paper trade

1. Open Trading Center and click Build Trade.
2. Pick the Trading pair and the Strategy. Leave the mode on paper.
3. Set the order size (a fixed amount, or a % of the paper balance) and the Order type (market or limit). These have no default: you choose them.
4. Click Save, then set the trade to Active. Its Status badge reads Running once the engine picks it up.

4. Backtesting walkthrough

Run a strategy on past candles to see how its rules behave.

1. Open Backtest.
2. Pick the Trading Pair and the Strategy, and check the Initial Balance and Trading Fee %.
3. Choose the Trigger: On candle touch or On candle close.
4. Click Execute Backtest.
5. Read the results: Price & Trades shows each trade on the chart, and the Trades table lists entry, exit, fees, P&L and ROI. Charts such as Equity Curve and Drawdown show the run over time.

A backtest shows how the rules behave on past prices. It does not predict future results.

5. Chart page walkthrough

See a pair's candles, and optionally a strategy drawn over them.

1. Open Chart.
2. Choose the Trading Pair and the Interval.
3. Under Strategy overlay, pick one of your strategies to draw it on the chart, or None.

Read the getting started guide