Adjusting the cash deployed each trade

[Charlie]

Sasha,

The default cash in the paper account is an unrealistic $1 million. But in real life and actual trading, there's no way I'd be making even $1,000 bets on what StockAlyze suggests might be worth buying. $100 bucks is more like it.

Could a feature be added to SA so that users could adjust their bet size downward? (Thanks in advance, Charlie)


 

[Sacha]

Hi Charlie,

Good point — and yes, this has been addressed in the recent update 🙂

You can now configure the initial cash used for backtesting, so you're no longer stuck with the default $1M. Just set the starting capital to whatever fits your style (for example, $1,000 or even less), and position sizes will scale accordingly.

Thanks for raising this — feedback like this really helps make the platform more realistic and useful.