The desktop app only trades while it's open. Close your laptop and it stops. To keep trading with your computer off, use a cloud machine.
Set amounts and start
1
Enter amounts. In the sidebar, click "Portfolio". On the "Allocation" tab, click "Pick Strategies", enter the amounts and click "Save".
2
Go to Auto Trading. Click "Start in Auto Trading" on the save bar.
3
Start. Click "Start trading", choose "Wait for new signals", then click "Start, wait for new signals".
To enter the positions your strategies should hold right now, choose "Catch up positions" in step 3 instead. You may get in partway through a move.
How to tell it worked
The status at the top of the page says "Auto-trading running".
"Difference" on the "Positions" tab is 0, which means your account matches the strategy targets.
Pausing
Click "Pause trading". The confirmation dialog gives you two choices:
"Pause trading": positions stay open and the strategy amounts are kept. Click "Start trading" later to continue.
"Pause and close positions": closes at market, then pauses.
Whether it closes orders you opened by hand, and whether stop losses keep running while paused, depends on the version of your machine. Read the lines in the confirmation dialog before you click. They are what counts.
Stuck?
You see
What to do
There's no "Wait for new signals" to choose
On older machines the confirm dialog only has "Start and catch up positions". Clicking it places orders to match the target positions
You want to remove the account completely
Click "Disconnect" on the "Settings" tab. If the account holds positions, you'll be asked to choose "Close and disconnect" or "Keep and disconnect". Positions you keep must be handled on the exchange yourself
Let Your AI Do Quanton Your Own Computer
Blave Desktop is free, open source and needs no sign-up. Connect Claude Code or Codex: it writes the strategy, runs the backtest and trades it live.
Downloading. When you open the installer, Windows first shows “Windows protected your PC”:
Click “More info”.
Click “Run anyway”. Blave installs and opens on its own.
The first launch sets up its runtime and takes a few minutes.
Windows warns because the installer isn't code-signed yet (we've applied for a certificate), so it can't identify the publisher. The source is public on GitHub. See the full steps
