When you run more than one strategy on a single account, each strategy needs to know how much of the account it's allowed to spend. That's capital allocation.

The two ways to set it

• Fixed dollar amount — give the strategy a hard budget, e.g. "this strategy spends at most $5,000 at a time."
• Percentage of the account — give the strategy a share, e.g. "this strategy can use up to 50% of the account."

Use dollars when you want a strict, unchanging budget. Use percentages when you want each strategy's budget to grow or shrink with your overall account.

When two strategies overlap

You're allowed to set percentages that don't add up to 100%. (You can have two strategies each at 80% if you want.) The portal handles the conflict like this:

1. If only one strategy has a fitting alert, that strategy uses its allocation. Easy case.
2. If two strategies both want to trade at the same instant and there isn't enough buying power left to cover both, whichever signal arrived first wins. The other strategy sees the trade was already taken and skips.

This means you can have an aggressive and a conservative strategy fighting over the same dollar without doubling up.

Worked example

You have $20,000 in the account. You run:

• Strategy A — Aggressive SPY day trades, allocation: 60%.
• Strategy B — Conservative QQQ trades, allocation: 50%.

Strategy A can spend up to $12,000 at a time; Strategy B can spend up to $10,000. They can both be running simultaneously as long as the combined open dollar value stays under your total $20,000.

Tip

If you want strict separation — "Strategy A never gets in Strategy B's way" — make the allocations add up to 100% or less.