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Consolidate Bots Faster With Automatic Suggestions

Published July 20, 2026
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Consolidate Bots Faster With Automatic Suggestions

If you run several bots that differ only by entry time, the Consolidate wizard can now find them for you. Open the wizard and it scans your standalone bots, groups the ones that can be combined into a Multi-Entry bot, and presents each group as a one-click suggestion. As always, every consolidated bot keeps its own ID and trade history.

Suggested consolidations

Groups under Suggested consolidations have identical settings on the same symbol and account, differing only by entry time, so consolidating them changes nothing about how the bots trade. When a group's settings also match a Multi-Entry bot you already have, the card leads with an Add to button that folds the group into that bot instead of creating a new one. Only groups where at least one bot has traded in the last 90 days are suggested, so retired bots stay out of the list.

A suggested consolidation card listing four SPX put credit spread bots with an Add to SPX PCS Ladder button
A zero-change group, ready to fold into an existing Multi-Entry bot in one click.

Other consolidations

Bots that are nearly identical (everything matches except one or two minor settings) appear under Other consolidations. Each difference is highlighted right on the card, so you can see exactly which settings consolidation would standardize to the template bot's values. The Review button takes you to the full change list before anything is saved.

An Other consolidations card for two SPX strangle bots with two highlighted setting differences
Near-miss groups show the exact settings that would change, highlighted in amber.

Pick the Multi-Entry bot yourself

Every suggestion card also has a Choose Existing Multi-Entry button. It lists all of your Multi-Entry bots on the group's symbol and account, sorted so the targets needing the fewest setting changes come first, with a summary of what would change on each. Changes to Entry Days or Skip Event Days get a warning callout, since they change when the bots trade at all, and a target whose entries collide with the group's entry times is flagged as blocked.

The Choose a Multi-Entry bot dialog listing three targets with change summaries and a blocked entry-time collision
Fold the group into any compatible Multi-Entry bot, with the full cost of each choice up front.

A clearer Differences review

The Differences step picked up a Status column: a green or red dot shows whether each entry is enabled. And when you add bots to an existing Multi-Entry bot, its current entries are listed below the bots being added, so you review the complete roster the consolidation produces, not just the newcomers.

The Differences review table with status dots and the Multi-Entry bot's existing entries listed below the added bots
Status dots and the full entry roster on the Differences review.

Open Bots → Consolidate to Multi-Entry to see what the wizard suggests for your account.