Reading the Live Bot Dashboard

Every running DONKOFX automation has a live view. You open it from your list of running bots. Its job is to let you check an automation in a minute or two and get back to your day, so it is organised around three questions: what is the bot doing right now, what has it done in this run, and how close is it to its limits.

You do not need to keep it open. The automation runs on DONKOFX servers whether or not you are looking, and notifications tell you about important events. Treat the live view as the place to check in, not a screen to stare at.

A run starts when you press Start and ends when the automation stops, whether you stopped it or it reached a limit. The live view's main figures, such as the run's profit and its completed broker trades, belong to the current run. Your trade history and analysis pages aggregate every run across time.

Keep the two apart when you judge an automation. A run that is down $15 tells you whether today's run is behaving as configured. It tells you very little about whether the automation is suitable for you; that needs many runs over several weeks. Equally, a strong lifetime record does not mean today's run cannot reach its loss limit.

The equity gauge is the quickest way to see where a run stands. It shows the equity the run started with, the level at which the run stops for losses and the level of its profit target, with the current position between them. If the needle is close to the stop level, the run has little room left. If it is close to the target, the run may end soon on a good note.

Bot equity and account balance are not the same thing. The account balance is the broker's figure for the whole account, including other automations and your own trades. The bot equity follows only this run. When several automations share one account, the account balance can move while this run stands still.

The activity feed is a running log, in plain words, of what the automation decided and why. Strategy bots report what they are waiting for, when a setup appears, when a trade opens, when a stop moves to breakeven or a target is reached. Copy automations report every signal received, whether it was copied or skipped, and the reason for any skip. Digit bots report each contract and its result.

The feed is where most questions are answered. If a bot has not traded all day, the feed will usually tell you that its conditions were not met, that it was outside its trading window, or that a limit had no room. A quiet bot with a clear reason is working as designed.

When the feed shows a waiting message, the automation is connected and checking the market. When it shows that it is disconnected, the live view has lost contact; refresh the page before assuming anything is wrong with the bot itself.

When a trade or basket is open, the open position panel shows what the broker reports for it: the market, the direction, the entry, the size in lots or stake, the stop and the targets, and the profit or loss right now. For trades split into several legs, it shows each leg, the take-profit ladder and which leg is the runner that follows price with a wider trail.

IRONVAULT also shows each grid level and the shared basket stop, so you can see how far price is from the next level and from the stop. Digit bots that run paper trades before entering list them separately as entry-gate observations: checks the bot ran with no broker order, stake or result.

The completed broker trades list shows every trade the run has closed, with its entry, planned target, exit, result and what closed it, such as a target, the stop or a trailing stop. Legs of one basket are grouped together, so a signal split across three targets reads as one trade. Results come from the broker's own records of each fill, not from an estimate.

Read the closed-by column over a few weeks. If most trades close at breakeven, the first target may be too far away for the market. If most close at the full stop, the automation or the expert may not suit the current market.

Most of the time, the best action is no action. An open trade that is temporarily losing is normal; it has a stop for that reason. Closing trades by hand because a move feels uncomfortable usually breaks the strategy's rules and turns its expected behaviour into something nobody has tested.

Good reasons to step in are specific: the run is trading an account you did not intend, a broker or connection problem is reported in the feed, major unscheduled news is moving the market violently, or you realise your settings are wrong. In those cases, pause or stop first, then decide calmly whether to close positions.

A run can end on its own. When the loss limit is reached, the live view shows that the equity stop was triggered and the run stops. When Profit Lock is on, a digit run stops as soon as the session is in profit, and the live view says so. Strategy bots can also stop for the day at a daily trade or loss cap.

If a trade was refused because the account exposure ceiling had no room, the feed names the limit and the runs using the room. You can change the ceiling from Settings, Risk, which the live view links to.

DONKOFX is built to keep running through server restarts. When the trading engine restarts, it reconnects each running automation to the broker and checks what is really open before taking any new action. IRONVAULT finds its grid legs at the broker and resumes the same basket.

If DONKOFX cannot confirm the state of a position, it will not quietly assume. Stop may be refused until the engine can confirm, and if the engine is no longer managing a position the run is stopped with a note asking you to check the position at your broker. Read those notes; they exist so nothing is left unattended.