Oracle Modes & Strictness

Oracle has three dials you control: mode (how forcefully it acts on a verdict), strictness (how high its bar for a "good" trade sits), and zone behavior (how it treats where price is relative to the entry zone). You set them once for the account and can override them per config profile for individual channels.

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Mode — what Oracle does with its verdict

The mode decides whether Oracle only speaks up or actually intervenes. Start at the top and move down only once you trust what you're seeing.

Mode	What happens	Trades run?
Off	Oracle does not evaluate your trades at all. No verdicts, no warnings.	All trades run as normal
Advisory	Oracle grades every trade and shows you its verdict across your logs and trade screens, but never blocks. This is the "watch first" mode.	All trades run; you just see the grade
Guardian	Oracle grades every trade and holds back the ones it judges poor. A held trade never opens a position; it's logged with Oracle's reason.	Only trades that clear Oracle's bar run

Always start in Advisory

Advisory mode lets Oracle grade real trades without changing a single outcome. Run it for a while, compare its verdicts against what actually happened on the performance surface, and only switch to Guardian once you're comfortable letting it hold trades. You can drop back to Advisory or Off at any time.

Advisory mode is sometimes labelled Shadow and Guardian mode Enforcement on some screens — they mean the same thing: advisory watches, guardian enforces.

Strictness — how high the bar sits

Within Advisory or Guardian mode, strictness sets how good a setup has to look before Oracle is satisfied. It doesn't change what Oracle measures — only how demanding it is about the result.

Strictness	Behavior	Best for
Lenient	Only flags or holds the clearly weak setups. Most trades pass.	Channels you already trust; you want a light safety net
Balanced	A middle bar — flags the setups that look meaningfully worse than the channel's norm.	Most traders start here
Strict	A high bar. Flags or holds anything that isn't a strong setup.	Noisy channels, or when you want Oracle to be selective

In Guardian mode, stricter settings mean more trades held back. In Advisory mode, strictness only changes how many trades get a warning label — nothing is blocked either way.

Illustrative — advisory always lets the trade run and only labels it; guardian holds a trade only when it fails the strictness bar.

Zone behavior — how Oracle treats price vs the entry zone

Where price sits relative to the signal's entry zone changes how a trade is likely to fill and how much room it has. Oracle's zone behavior setting tells it how to treat that distance when it grades a trade.

Setting	How Oracle treats it
Near	Rewards setups where price is close to the entry — the trade is likely to fill promptly and near plan.
Mid	A balanced middle ground between prompt fills and deeper, better-priced entries.
Far	Tolerates setups where price is further from the entry, giving retracement-style entries more credit.

Match this to how the channel actually behaves. A channel whose signals are meant to be entered immediately fits Near; a channel that expects you to wait for a pullback fits Far.

Overriding Oracle per profile

Oracle's mode, strictness, and zone behavior are part of your effective settings, so they follow the same two-layer model as the rest of your configuration:

1. Your account-level Oracle settings are the baseline.
2. A config profile's Oracle overrides apply to the channels using that profile. A profile field left blank inherits the account value.

This lets you run Oracle differently per channel — for example, Guardian + Strict on a noisy channel you don't fully trust, Advisory + Lenient on a proven one — without touching your account default. See Config Profiles for how profile overrides work in general.

Oracle grades new trades, not open ones

Changing your Oracle mode or strictness affects how future trades are graded. It does not re-judge or close trades that are already open — a trade that Oracle let run stays running.

Related pages

• Oracle — what Oracle is and how to request access
• Reading Oracle — where Oracle's verdicts appear and how to read them
• Config Profiles — per-channel setting overrides, including Oracle
• Applying Profiles — assigning a profile to a channel