Why did my old backtest numbers change?
Beta78 recalculated them once from their saved orders, counting both fees and valuing any position still open at the end. Runs without saved orders keep their old number with the tag “Could not recalculate — re-run”. Backtesting → Past backtests lists them with a Re-run button. A backtest shows how rules behaved on past prices; it does not predict results.
What is slippage and is it on?
Slippage is a fill at a slightly worse price than the one you saw. The switch is off by default. When on, each buy and sell fills about 0.06 % worse — in backtests and paper trading only. Live trades are never changed by it.
How does EMA Sniper sell?
With spread trailing. It follows the widest EMA spread since the buy, and sells when the spread pulls back from that widest point by your Sell spread amount (default 0.1 %) — and only above fees. EMA Sniper has no gain target.
Do my live trades change in beta78?
Two things. Strategy signals are now checked on the finished candle of the card’s own time frame (a 1m card every minute, a 15m card every 15 minutes), so a buy can come up to one candle later. And profit sells never go below your fees. Stop-loss, Sell only, manual and trend exits are not blocked. Price exits still check every few seconds. Slippage never applies to live trades.
What does Sell only do?
It stops new buys on a card, keeps selling by the card’s own exit rules, and switches the card off when everything it bought is sold. It never places a sell of its own and never sells coins the bot did not buy. “Buy again” cancels it.
Can Crow Brain place trades?
No. Crow Brain is read-only. Nothing on the page places, changes or cancels an order. It shows thoughts the bot already had and costs nothing when the page is closed.
Is Crow Brain AI?
No. It shows the bot’s own rules as they run: real indicator values and Selene guards, then BUY, HOLD or SELL. It is not AI, not a neural network, and not a prediction.
Does all-time P/L include deleted cards?
Trades of cards you delete are kept from 1.5.5-beta76 on. Cards deleted on an older version are not included. All-time P/L counts closed trades only, after fees, with live and paper kept apart.
Does Crow Quest make me trade more?
No. XP comes from your percent gain on profitable sells and from smart habits like backtesting, paper practice, and stop-losses. The number of trades never earns XP, and losses take nothing away. The game only watches your results. It never places, sizes, or changes a trade.
Is my data shared?
No. Your trades, keys, level, and badges stay on your computer. Crow Quest makes no network calls. Win notifications are built on your machine. The update check downloads a public version file from crowtrader.com and sends none of your trading data. To count how many bots are running each day, the site keeps a one-way code made from the internet address of each check, never the address itself.
How do automatic updates work?
Every 8 hours the bot checks for a new version and shows “Update available”. One click installs it. The update is signature-checked first, waits until no order is in progress, and backs up your data before it swaps versions. Mac on beta72 or older and Windows on beta73 or older: install the latest version once by hand; after that it updates itself.
Can I roll back an update?
Yes. If a new version does not start correctly, the bot puts the previous version back by itself. The last 3 versions are kept, and Configuration → About lets you roll back by hand.
How much does Crow Trader cost?
Evaluation mode is free: paper trading and backtesting, with live trading locked. The Free Weex license adds Weex-only live trading. The Full license is $199 USD, paid once in ADA, and unlocks live spot trading on every supported exchange.
Is Crow Trader financial advice? Can it guarantee profits?
No and no. Crow Trader is software that runs the rules you set. Crypto trading carries substantial risk of loss, and past results — paper, backtest, or live — do not guarantee future results.
