Editing Backtick Positions
Every position inside a Backtick has its own editor, the same settings form your live bots use, tuned for backtesting.
Opening the editor
You reach the position editor from the Create Backtick builder when you add or edit a position, or directly as Create Backtick Position when starting fresh. When you are editing an existing run, a header bar lets you pick any position in that Backtick from the Select Backtick Position to Edit dropdown, then jump to it with Edit Position. Create New Position starts a blank one, and Copy to New Position duplicates the current position so you can change one thing and compare.
Editing several positions at once
Select two or more positions in a Backtick's Positions table and click Edit Selected to open this same editor in multi-edit mode, applying your changes to every selected position at once. As in bulk bot editing, a setting where the selected positions disagree shows as a conflict instead of a single value, and only what you actually change gets applied.
The Backtick Account field follows the same rule: it pre-selects the shared account when every selected position already uses the same one, and shows Multiple Accounts (leave unchanged) when they differ. Leaving that placeholder in place does not reassign anyone's account. Each position keeps the account it already had.
Editable, read-only, and copies
What you can do depends on the state of the run that owns the position:
- Draft runs open fully editable. Change anything, save, and queue the run.
- Completed runs open read-only, preserving the exact settings that produced the results. To iterate on a finished position, use Copy to New Position, or reset the whole run to draft from the Library (see Copy, Rerun, and Import Backticks).
The form itself is the same one live bots use, documented setting by setting in the Bot Settings Reference. The differences are what backtesting removes or reinterprets:
- There is no live brokerage account or order routing. You assign a Backtick Account instead of a Trading Account, and sizing is simulated against the run's starting balance rather than real buying power.
- The Webhook Remote Control section does not appear; webhooks are a live-bot feature.
- Dependencies still work: a position can require or forbid entries based on other positions being in trade, evaluated day by day within the simulation.
- Per-position Skip Days and slippage/delay overrides are managed from the Positions table in the builder rather than inside this form.
Profit targets and resting stops
Backtick enforces the same closing-order rule as live trading: a resting profit target and a resting stop cannot both work the same trade. If you configure one while the other is set, the editor warns you that continuing disables the other. To model both at once, use Bot Algo style stops instead of resting stops.
Position Settings Test Run
The Test Run action simulates opening a new trade with the settings you have configured, without executing anything. It shows you which strikes would have been selected if the trade fired right now, which is the fastest way to sanity-check strike targeting before you spend a run on it.
Sharing a position
You can share a single position's settings, which is different from sharing a whole run's results (Share Backtick Results covers that):
- Position Sharing creates a link to this position's settings. The link keeps working until you disable sharing for the position.
- Group Position Sharing shares the position with your trading group. You give it a display name (4 to 40 characters) and an optional description, and other group members can view and copy the position's settings. The Prohibit Share Links switch stops members who copy it from creating share links of their own outside the group.