CharlesWhat's new in Charles v1.11.0
Fetch lets you pick its coin and stock, adds Pause and Resume, shows what it sees in the last 10 minutes, and gets its own card on Home.
Most of this release is about Fetch, the optional add-on that follows one coin and one stock trade by trade on practice money and gives the reason for every move. The stock, crypto and Kalshi bots trade the same way they did before.
Pick what Fetch watches, and pause it
You can now choose Fetch's coin and stock yourself. Both come from a short list of busy ones, and you pick them on Fetch's tab in the dashboard.
If a practice trade is open when you switch, Fetch closes it at the market price. The P&L doesn't reset. It carries on from where it was, so the record covers everything Fetch has done, across every coin and stock it has watched.
Fetch's tab also has its own Pause and Resume:
- Pause stops new buys.
- A trade that's already open still ends the usual way, at its target or its stop. Pausing doesn't leave a trade sitting open with no exit.
- Resume lets Fetch buy again.
See what Fetch sees
A new panel under the chart, "What Charles sees in the last 10 minutes", shows what Fetch is looking at before its next move:
- How the price has moved.
- Buyers against sellers.
- How close the price is to where Fetch would buy.
- A countdown to its next decision.
This lets you follow each decision as it comes, not only read the reason afterwards.
The chart is zoomed in now, and a coin looks the same as a stock. When you switch between them, you read the chart the same way.
Fetch on Home
Fetch has its own card on Home, and it counts in the total with the other bots. Home's Add a bot lists it too, so you can start it from the dashboard instead of the terminal. The command still works:
charles-addon on fetch
Fetch uses your Alpaca keys for the stock's prices, so there's nothing new to set up. To turn it off, run charles-addon off fetch. Its data is kept, and it all comes back when you turn it on again.
Fetch stays on practice money and can't connect to a real account.