Documentation
Everything you need to know about using plutarc to automate your trading.
What is plutarc
plutarc is a pay-as-you-go automated trading bot platform. When you deploy a bot, a dedicated compute instance is provisioned, running a configurable trading bot that connects to your exchange via API keys. You control the strategy, parameters, and exit rules — plutarc handles the infrastructure.
Your bot runs autonomously — either 24/7 or during configured trading sessions — executing trades based on your chosen strategy template. Strategy templates are built from composable components — technical indicators, filters, exit rules, and entry guards — that you can mix, configure, and weight to match your trading approach.
Quick Start
New to plutarc? The Getting Started guide walks you through creating an account, connecting your exchange, deploying your first bot, and monitoring performance — step by step.
Platform
Dashboard
Monitor your trading fleet with live KPIs, bot status cards, open positions, and real-time trade and activity feeds.
Strategy Builder
Build and customise trading strategies using composable components. Configure signals, filters, risk gates, exit rules, entry guards, combination modes, and trading sessions.
System Templates
Explore the 8 built-in strategy templates — from trend following and mean reversion to volatility breakouts and funding rate fading.
Bots
Deploy, configure, and manage your automated trading bots. Assign API keys and strategy templates, pause and resume, and monitor bot activity.
Trades
Review your complete trade history with detailed execution metrics. Filter, sort, inspect individual trades, and compare multiple trades side by side.
Analytics
Analyse trading performance with equity curves, drawdown charts, win rate tracking, signal analysis, execution quality metrics, and activity heatmaps.
API Keys
Manage your exchange API keys securely. Add live or testnet keys, activate, and assign to bots for automated or paper trading on supported exchanges.
Backtesting
Test your strategies against historical market data before deploying live. Configure parameters, run simulations, and interpret results.
Account & Billing
Manage your account settings, notification preferences, authentication methods, billing, and payment history.
Settings
Configure your timezone, notification sounds, per-category notification preferences, and data management.
Organizations
Create team organizations, invite members, and manage access with 5 roles and 34 granular permissions. Set per-member bot quotas with an approval workflow, plus audit log, billing delegation, and ownership transfer.
Guides
Exchanges
Exchange-specific setup guides. Learn how to create API keys, configure permissions, and understand market and contract types.
Compute Providers
Compare Hetzner, Vultr, and AWS deployment regions. Choose the right provider based on cost, latency, and exchange proximity.
Strategy Cookbook
Ready-made strategy configurations for common trading approaches. Copy, adapt, and backtest example setups.
How It Works
High-level architecture — how strategies are evaluated, how bots connect to exchanges, and how data flows through the system.
Risk Management
How bot-level risk limits and strategy exit rules work together to protect your capital, with example scenarios.
Glossary
Definitions of trading, strategy, and platform terminology used across plutarc.
Support
Support Tickets
Submit and track support requests. Create tickets by category and priority, follow conversation threads, and receive Telegram notifications for updates.
Security & Privacy
API key encryption, dedicated compute isolation, EU data hosting, authentication, and data retention.
Troubleshooting
Solutions to common issues — bots not trading, API key errors, position sync problems, and more.
Changelog
A chronological record of new features, improvements, and changes to the platform.
Key Concepts
Strategy Templates
Templates define your complete trading strategy — which components to use, how to combine their signals, when to trade, and when to exit. System templates are built-in and read-only; you can duplicate them to create your own customised versions.
Components
Components are the building blocks of a strategy. Each component is a technical indicator or rule (e.g. RSI, MACD, Moving Average Crossover) that analyses market data and produces a signal, filters entries, guards against bad conditions, or triggers exits.
Roles
Every component is assigned a role that determines how it participates in the strategy: signals generate directional scores, filters confirm or reject market conditions, risk gates block entries when market risk is unfavourable, entry guards prevent entries in exhausted or overextended conditions, and exit rules determine when to close positions.
Combination Modes
When multiple signal components are active, the combination mode determines how their outputs are merged into a single trade decision. Options include weighted sum, unanimous agreement, any single signal, or majority vote.
Bots
A bot is a dedicated compute instance that runs your strategy. Each bot is assigned one API key and one strategy template. Bots can run 24/7 or automatically sleep between trading sessions to save costs.
API Keys
API keys connect your bot to your exchange account. Keys are encrypted at rest and only decrypted in-memory at runtime. Each key is assigned to one bot at a time.