FactorSage

Chapter 5

Signal Monitors

Reuse a validated strategy as a live scan and understand the difference between a match and a historical trade.

Lessons in this chapter

  1. 5.1What are real-time matches?

    How monitors evaluate your strategy's rules against today's prices and fundamentals.

  2. 5.2Buy signals

    When a monitor flags a stock as a candidate to open a new position.

  3. 5.3Sell and exit signals

    Live monitoring of the same sell levels and final exit conditions used in backtests.

  4. 5.4Monitor alerts vs backtests

    Why the same rules can match in a monitor without ever producing a trade in a backtest, and vice versa.