Guide / Writing strategies
Schedule your trading mornings
Schedule runs three steps for you before each session you pick. Generate finds new strategy ideas and builds them. Select decides which strategy runs each session. Review sums up the market. Open it with Schedule in the Sandbox library, under + New Strategy.
Set the session times
The bar at the top is shared by every step. Tick each session you want a run for (Tokyo, London, New York) and enter its time in New York time. An hour before the open is suggested: 17:00 for Tokyo, 02:00 for London, 08:30 for New York. Each time must be within 12 hours before its session opens. Pick the days; Tokyo opens on Sunday evening, so tick Sun to run before it. Generate and Select both start at each session’s time. Under Tell me when each step finishes, choose In Quorum or In Quorum and Telegram, then click Save.
Each Generate run uses your AI, so three sessions use about three times as much as one.
Schedule runs while Quorum is open. A Generate run missed while Quorum was closed runs once when you open it, while its session is still trading. Select only runs before its session opens.
1. Generate: new ideas, built for you
Generate looks for strategy ideas and builds each one into a strategy in your list. Every part of What to look at is optional, and one is enough to start:
- Topics to search: a style you want tested, such as opening range breakout. Quorum searches the web for pages with rules you can test.
- Sources to search: research sites, traders’ blogs or newsletters you follow. Searches look in these first. Under Suggested, tap Quantpedia, arXiv, TradingView Scripts or Robot Wealth to add it. YouTube and X cannot be read; paste a video transcript or post text under Your own resources instead.
- Pages to check: a blog, forum board or newsletter archive. Each run reads the posts it has not read before.
- Today’s gaps: fills spare idea slots with strategies for today’s market, on your symbol, where you have no proven strategy yet.
- Your own resources: a link to an article or text-based PDF, pasted text such as a video transcript, or a subtitle file. Subtitle files keep their timestamps, so the rules point to the moment in the video. Scanned PDFs without text cannot be read.
Searching topics, sources and today’s gaps runs on ChatGPT. Choose it and sign in under Settings → AI providers. Pages and your own resources work with any AI. When a site refuses Quorum’s reader, ChatGPT can try reading it instead. These resources are marked read by ChatGPT because their rules come from ChatGPT’s account of the page.
Notes for your AI is optional. Your AI already knows its job: find ideas in what you gave it and build each into a testable strategy. Notes add your own direction, such as go through the main headlines on my sources and pick the article with the clearest rules, or prefer strategies that trade the New York open. The web search, the idea your AI drafts when nothing usable is found, and every build and tuning round read them. On Pages to check, your AI reads the headlines of new posts and picks which to open by your notes, instead of taking the newest; posts it passes over are offered again on the next run. Notes cannot change the symbol, the timeframe, your goal or a rule the source states in its own words. A new note applies to ideas started after you save it.
Under How each idea is built, set the symbol and timeframe for each session, so each run builds strategies for that session’s market. With Goal mode on, each idea is tuned toward your goal (profitable, a profit factor, or a maximum drawdown) within your limits. Tuning only sees the first 75% of the backtest. A version that meets the goal is then checked once on the last 25%, so a lucky fit does not count as a pass.
Switch on Run before each session. The first time, Quorum asks once whether it may run your mornings for you. Schedule never places a trade. The Spending cap per run stops a run after a set number of AI calls. An unfinished idea carries on in the next run. Run now tries it straight away, for the next session or the one you choose beside it. If a run finds no usable resources, your AI drafts one original idea for your selected market and timeframe, then builds and backtests it. It is labelled AI-generated idea.
Schedule does not stop to ask you anything. Where a source leaves a rule open, or asks for something Pine cannot do (such as a holiday calendar), your AI makes its own call and says what it chose in the strategy’s notes. An idea that needs data Pine cannot read on history, such as options data or a trader’s judgement, is still built: your AI replaces that part with its own rule from chart data, and the strategy is marked Adapted so you know it tests your AI’s version of the idea.
If TradingView is not ready, a scheduled run waits up to 15 minutes for it, then writes the strategies anyway and saves them to your library without a backtest. The next run backtests them first.
Read the results
Each run is listed under Recent runs with the ideas it found:
- Met your goal: a new strategy in your list, with its numbers. Click Open to see it in the Sandbox.
- Missed your goal: the strategy is kept, with the reason.
- Untested: written while TradingView was not ready. The next run backtests it.
In the Sandbox library, a strategy Schedule built is outlined in purple with a NEW mark until you open it. One that has not been backtested yet shows a flask and Untested.
2. Select: what runs each session
Select works from the session schedule on the Execution page: one strategy each for New York, London and Tokyo.
- Daily Cycle plans each session at its time. Your AI ranks each strategy scheduled in that session for today’s market and says whether to run it, reduce it or pause it.
- Strategy Pick runs a set number of minutes before each session opens and applies the plan.
Select can only lower your risk:
| Verdict | What happens |
|---|---|
| RUN | The strategy trades its session as scheduled |
| REDUCE | Half the contracts for that one session. A 1-contract strategy keeps 1 |
| PAUSE | No new entries in that session |
Nothing changes until you tap Apply under the Pick, or Ignore to trade full size. To skip the tap, switch on Apply REDUCE and PAUSE on their own. A strategy you have not scheduled is only ever suggested.
3. Review: the market at 08:15
Quorum writes the Morning Review at 08:15 New York time each weekday, the same for everyone. It does not use your AI. It shows:
- A one-line headline for the day
- Each market’s condition from 1 day to 3 months, with the overnight sessions
- Today’s risks: releases and headlines that can move the session
- Across Quorum: how published strategies have done on days like today
Open Earlier reviews to look back. The review says what happened, never where price is going.
To see how your own strategies did, tap See how your strategies did in the Trade Journal at the top of the tab. The Trade Journal compares every strategy you run, with its P&L, drawdown and win rate.