Monitor Bot Activity and Open Positions

Three pages answer the three questions every bot trader asks: what is my bot doing right now, what will it do today, and what positions am I actually holding?

What did my bot do? Bot Activity Logs

Open the Bots menu and choose Bot Activity under Manage, or click View Bot Activity in a bot's Actions column on the View Bots page. The Bot Activity Logs page shows a running narrative of every decision your bots make: entries evaluated, orders placed and filled, stops watched, and exits taken.

Use the date picker to pull a specific range, and the message type filter (it defaults to All Message Types) to focus on just fills, just stops, or whatever you are investigating. When something did not trade and you want to know why, this log is the first place to look: the bot writes out the reason it skipped or waited.

For a newly opened trade, its own activity log also includes the bot's earlier attempts from that same trading day, starting at 9:30 AM Eastern and running up through the fill. This only applies going forward: trades recorded before this rolled out keep only their own activity, and adopted attempts show inline with no special badge, so they read like any other entry in the trade's log.

Multi-Entry bots roll every entry's activity into one log. In Select Bot, a Multi-Entry bot is suffixed (Multi-Entry), and its entries do not get their own rows in that list. Pick the Multi-Entry bot and you will see every entry's activity together, each row labeled Multi-Entry bot name › entry name so you can tell at a glance which entry it belongs to. Land on this page with a specific entry's botId in the link and tradeSteward resolves it straight to the Multi-Entry bot's activity.

A size-up open shows in the log as Sized up followed by the original order number, linked back to that trade's own activity. See Add to Trade (Size Up) for how to trigger one from the Trading Dashboard.

What happens today? The Bot Day Planner

Open the Bots menu and choose Bot Day Planner. The planner lays your bots out on a timeline so you can see the day's planned entries at a glance and spot pile-ups where several bots enter at the same moment.

Use Select Entry Days to view the schedule for All Days or a single weekday, and tick the show-excluded option to include bots that are skipping today, for example because of an event day or holiday rule. When special-day settings exclude bots from today's plan, the planner says so explicitly and names the reason, so a quiet timeline never leaves you guessing. It is a great pre-market habit: one look tells you what your fleet intends to do.

What am I holding? Open Account Positions

Open the Tracking menu and choose Open Account Positions under Trades. The page has two views:

• Open Positions by Underlying and Expiration rolls your book up per account, underlying, and expiration, with long and short puts and calls side by side so you can see your net exposure shape.
• All Account Positions lists every contract individually: symbol, strike, put or call, expiration, how many the account holds, and how many your bots opened.

The account quantity and bot quantity columns sit next to each other, which makes it easy to spot positions you opened manually at the broker versus positions your bots are managing.

Replay one trade: the Bot Trade Timeline

For a single trade, the Bot Trade Timeline is the deepest view available. Click the chart icon labeled View Trade Timeline next to a trade in Bot Activity Logs, Bot Performance, Strategy Performance, or Historical Dashboards to open it.

The page plots the trade's price over its whole life, and a Trade Timeline panel narrates the story alongside it: when the trade opened, the fill quantity and price, which strikes were selected and why, and the underlying and VIX levels at each point. Buttons take you straight to Edit Bot or View Bot Trade Activity for that trade, so it doubles as a jumping-off point when a result needs investigating.

Watch pending launches

If a bot uses Launch on Stop, the follow-up trade shows on the Trading Dashboard as Pending Launch on Stop before it fires. Changed your mind? Use Cancel Pending Launch right there to call it off.

Audit changes with Bot Settings History

Every save of a bot's settings is archived. Click View Bot Settings History in the bot's Actions column, or open Bot Settings History from the Bots menu, to review earlier configurations. The page shows a Settings Timeline for the bot; click a point on it, or use Or pick an exact time to jump straight to a specific save. The full settings form renders below exactly as it was configured at that moment.

Since entries share their Multi-Entry bot's settings, they are left out of Select Bot to View here. Only the Multi-Entry bot itself appears. Follow a settings-history link for a specific entry and tradeSteward redirects you straight to the Multi-Entry bot's history.

Each snapshot is stamped with when it was saved, so you can line the history up against your trade results and pinpoint exactly which change a performance shift followed. Found a configuration that worked better? Copy to New Bot turns the historical snapshot into a brand new bot, so restoring an old setup never means rebuilding it by hand.