# Saved Strategies

Atlas lets you save any backtested strategy returned in chat to a dedicated dashboard, then re-checks each saved strategy weekly against the latest strategy database. Strategies that still pass the quality filters are tagged **Current**; those that drop out are tagged **Deprecated**.

### How to save a strategy

1. In an Atlas chat, ask for a strategy (see Your First Strategy Search and Prompting Tips).
2. On any returned strategy card, click the **star icon** in the top corner.
3. The strategy is added to your **Saved Strategies** dashboard with a snapshot of its metrics at save time.

A strategy is identified by its **asset, timeframe, direction, and entry/exit conditions** — not by how the prompt was worded. Re-saving the same setup (even if you asked for it differently) updates the existing entry instead of creating a duplicate.

### The Saved Strategies dashboard

Open the dashboard from your account menu to see every strategy you've starred, most recently updated first. Each row shows:

* **Asset**, **timeframe**, and **direction**
* The entry/exit conditions
* Snapshotted metrics: **Net Profit**, **Win Rate**, **Sharpe**, **Profit Factor**, **Max Drawdown**, **Total Trades**, **MCPT p-value**, and **Quality Tier**
* The **equity curve** from the saved backtest
* A status badge: **Current** or **Deprecated**

#### Current vs Deprecated

| Status         | What it means                                                                           | Metrics behavior                                                                     |
| -------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Current**    | The exact set of trade conditions still appears in the latest weekly strategy database. | Metrics refresh to the latest values on every dashboard load.                        |
| **Deprecated** | The conditions are no longer present in the refreshed database.                         | Last-known snapshot preserved; metrics frozen at the point the strategy dropped out. |

A **Deprecated** tag means one of three things happened in the most recent weekly rebuild:

* The strategy's out-of-sample performance dropped below the quality thresholds.
* Its Monte Carlo permutation p-value no longer cleared the significance gate.
* The instrument/timeframe set was rebuilt and this specific condition combination didn't re-emerge in the top-ranked set.

{% hint style="info" %}
A Deprecated flag is a signal to re-investigate, not a verdict that the idea is dead. The frozen snapshot is preserved as an audit log of why the strategy was once worth trading.
{% endhint %}

### How re-validation works

The Atlas strategy database is rebuilt **weekly** (see Backtesting Configurations for the full pipeline). When you open the Saved Strategies dashboard, every saved strategy is re-checked against that latest build — no manual refresh required.

Re-validation is **exact, not fuzzy**: the same asset, timeframe, direction, and condition set must survive the same quality gates applied to every new candidate. Those gates include:

* The standard quality-score thresholds used for all strategies in the database.
* A Monte Carlo permutation test on log returns — if shuffling the return sequence destroys the edge, the strategy fails the gate.

If those gates fail in a given week, the strategy drops out of the rebuilt database and your saved entry flips to **Deprecated**.

### What to do with a Deprecated strategy

* **Ask Atlas for a variant.** Loosening or tightening one condition often reproduces the edge.
* **Check related instruments.** Sometimes a single instrument dropped while the same condition set still works on related markets.
* **Compare snapshot vs. recent performance.** If Sharpe collapsed but drawdown didn't, regime shift is more likely than overfitting.
* **Don't delete the entry.** The frozen snapshot is its own audit log of why you stopped trading the setup.

### What gets saved

| Field                       | Saved at first save | Refreshed when Current | Frozen when Deprecated |
| --------------------------- | ------------------- | ---------------------- | ---------------------- |
| Asset, timeframe, direction | Yes                 | —                      | —                      |
| Entry/exit conditions       | Yes                 | —                      | —                      |
| Net Profit                  | Yes                 | Yes                    | Yes (snapshot)         |
| Win Rate                    | Yes                 | Yes                    | Yes (snapshot)         |
| Sharpe                      | Yes                 | Yes                    | Yes (snapshot)         |
| Profit Factor               | Yes                 | Yes                    | Yes (snapshot)         |
| Max Drawdown                | Yes                 | Yes                    | Yes (snapshot)         |
| Total Trades                | Yes                 | Yes                    | Yes (snapshot)         |
| MCPT p-value                | Yes                 | Yes                    | Yes (snapshot)         |
| Quality Tier                | Yes                 | Yes                    | Yes (snapshot)         |
| Equity Curve                | Yes                 | Yes                    | Yes (snapshot)         |


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