Worked Aurora deployment guide

Deploy a long-term investing strategy to Tradier

Create a GOOG 50/200 trend strategy in Aurora, inspect its completed historical tests, observe it in paper trading and move its saved rules into your brokerage account.

As of 2026-10-10

Follow one worked path

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Step 1 of 4

Review this task's exact candidate

Open the prepared Aurora request. Review the candidate rules below, including its entry, position guard, purchase amount and exit. Continue to a saved research draft only after reviewing those rules.

What you should see

Aurora shows the candidate rules and returns the saved research draft identity after you approve creation. The brokerage connection comes later.

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Step 2 of 4

Read historical and paper evidence separately

Follow creation, historical testing and paper observation in the same conversation. Retain the returned saved draft, test and running paper identities.

2023-03-30
Test ends (Eastern): 2023-12-06 · Return: 26.23% · Max drawdown: 13.19% · Closed trades: 0
2023-12-07
Test ends (Eastern): 2024-08-14 · Return: 18.61% · Max drawdown: 18.27% · Closed trades: 0
2024-08-15
Test ends (Eastern): 2025-04-23 · Return: -6.01% · Max drawdown: 21.46% · Closed trades: 4
2025-04-24
Test ends (Eastern): 2025-12-31 · Return: 70.86% · Max drawdown: 8.67% · Closed trades: 0
What you should see

Each stage has a separate artifact to inspect. A simulation curve is not broker account activity.

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Step 3 of 4

Connect and review the broker target

Connect Tradier using the account steps below. From the tested Paper portfolio, choose Port to Live and review the added and disabled rules before confirming.

Open Tradier connection
What you should see

Confirm & Port can activate the live target. Inspect its account identity, trading policy, orders and active state.

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Step 4 of 4

Verify execution and the pause control

Match portfolio events with broker activity. To pause strategy evaluation switch Automated Trading off and Save Changes in the live Deployment Center.

What you should see

Outstanding broker orders and holdings require their own review; pausing does not automatically sell or cancel them.

Create and test this example in Aurora

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Open the filled-in request, review the rules and send it in Aurora when ready. Continue in the same conversation through creation, backtesting and paper observation. Each step returns an artifact you can inspect before continuing.

Understand the worked rules

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EnterGOOG SMA50 > SMA200 and no GOOG holding.
SizeBuy whole shares with 100% of available buying power.
ExitGOOG SMA50 < SMA200 and a positive GOOG holding; sell the whole position. Equality triggers neither rule.
ObserveDaily indicator windows, $10,000 historical starting capital, cash dividends and 0.1% stock transaction fees.
InspectTime invested, long holding periods and drawdown. This one-stock teaching example concentrates its exposure in GOOG.

Read the completed historical example

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The same GOOG trend rule ran on four independent historical windows. Each window starts again with $10,000; the rows are separate tests. Read the losing window alongside the stronger ones and follow how long the strategy held GOOG.

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2023-03-302023-12-0626.23%13.19%0
2023-12-072024-08-1418.61%18.27%0
2024-08-152025-04-23-6.01%21.46%4
2025-04-242025-12-3170.86%8.67%0

Observe it in paper trading

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After testing your frozen version, ask Aurora to prepare a new paper deployment from the saved draft. Read back the new simulated portfolio identity and open it in Portfolios. Log the expected signal, actual order status, holdings, fees and any rule revision. Keep the historical backtest, paper history and live account history labeled separately.

Connect and select your Tradier account

Show connect and select your tradier account

Open Tradier account connection below. Select Connect Tradier, then Connect my existing account. Complete two-factor authentication if prompted. In Important Disclosures, select I understand and agree, then Connect Tradier and finish authorization on the broker's site. Return to NexusTrade and let Checking connection finish.

Choose the Tradier account you intend to trade and check its account ID, holdings and buying power. Tradier's API sandbox is separate from NexusTrade paper trading; use the native authorization flow for this connection.

This example trades whole stock shares. The current NexusTrade adapter uses whole stock shares. Keep the chosen account ID with your deployment notes.

Move the paper rules into the live portfolio

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  1. Open the paper portfolio

    Use the separate paper portfolio created from your saved draft. Open its Deployment Center and select Port to Live.

  2. Select Tradier and inspect the changes

    Read the incoming rules and existing active strategies. The confirmation shows which existing rules will be disabled. Keep the paper source so you can compare later observations.

  3. Confirm the intended deployment

    Select Confirm & Port when the comparison is correct. If active strategies already exist, the button reads Disable existing & Port. This confirmation can activate the live target.

  4. Open the returned live portfolio

    Select Open live portfolio. Verify Tradier, the intended account and the imported rules. Review the live target's evaluation mode after porting. OpenClose checks near the session's open and close; Constant checks repeatedly at the chosen interval. Keep the observation interval and evaluation cadence in your test notes. Port to Live copies strategies; it does not copy the paper portfolio's timing settings.

Follow the first signal and know how to pause

Show follow the first signal and know how to pause

Review the live portfolio's trading policy and daily limit in the app. Only you can enable automated order approval through the account application or portfolio settings. Aurora can help inspect the rules and events; it does not enable that policy.

When the trend changes, compare the recorded 50-day and 200-day averages, the position guard and the Filled order. Check the resulting cash and GOOG holding in both NexusTrade and your broker account.

To pause strategy evaluation, open Deployment Center, switch Automated Trading off and choose Save Changes. Check that the same live portfolio is paused. Inspect open broker orders and current holdings separately. For a recurring Aurora review, also pause its schedule in Agents.

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