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Strategy Schedules are a way of automatically scheduling the running of your Stories to perform automated tasks.  Trading successfully requires a lot of repetitive tasks that you can automate by running your Stories on a programmed schedule.

 You might want to ensure that all of your open positions are closed prior to the end of the week (to avoid holding trades over the weekend).  Not only is this often a good idea, but it is also the requirement of most Prop firms.  You can write a Story to do the closing of trades, and schedule the running of this near the close of market on friday evenings.

 You wish to proactively avoid having any trades open during high impact economic events.  Automated traders often forget about this and find it hard to avoid it.  You can write a story to check for high impact news, have it run on an hourly schedule and automatically close all positions, and pause strategies for the next hour.

Strategy Schedules Overview

Firstly, in order to run a story on a schedule you need to create the schedule.  To do this, click on the Schedules menu tab on the current Strategy and Click on Add Schedule.

This brings up the options for your new schedule.

Give your schedule a nice name, select the timezone you want your schedule to run on, and select the items on the scheduler to build up your schedule.  By clicking on each element of the scheduler, you can select the items you want to include.

The Human Schedule gives you a nice human readable version of your schedule.

When you are happy with your schedule, click on Add. You will see that your schedule has been added to your list of schedules.  By default it is 

. You can turn it on when you are happy with the settings by toggling the switch on the right.

To add Actions to your Schedule, click on its title to open up the schedule action toolbox.

Click on Add Action to enable you to select your Story that you wish to run on your Schedule.

Just like Webhook Actions, you can add many Schedule Actions to your Schedule and you can order them by dragging their order in the list.

That's it! Your Story will run every time the scheduler runs according to the interval you set.  Remember to enable your schedule by clicking on the toggle switch to the right.