Allow Averaging
When you're already in a trade and the same alert comes in again — same ticker, same strike, same expiration, same side — the bot normally adds to that position and averages it: the new contracts merge into your open trade at a blended price. That's "averaging in" (also called scaling in).
Allow Averaging is a per-strategy switch that lets you turn that off. When it's on (the default), nothing changes — repeat alerts average into the open trade just like always. When it's off, a repeat alert for a position you already hold is simply rejected: the strategy takes the position once and never adds to it.
You'll find it on the Strategies page, in a strategy's Risk & Orders tab under Allow Averaging. Like every other strategy setting, it's saved per strategy and takes effect right away — no restart needed.
What counts as "the same"
Averaging only happens on the exact same contract — the same underlying, strike, expiration, and call/put. A different strike or expiration is a different position and is taken on its own.
- SPY 760 call → SPY 760 call (same expiration) → same contract → averages in (or, with the switch off, is rejected).
- SPY 760 call → SPY 755 call → different strike → a separate trade either way.
Example
Your strategy is holding a SPY 760 call and a second SPY 760 call alert comes in a few minutes later. With Allow Averaging on, the bot buys more and blends them into one averaged position. With the switch off, that second alert is turned away and you keep just the original position.
Manual scale-ins still work
The switch only governs automatic averaging from incoming alerts. If you deliberately press Scale In on a trade from your dashboard, that always goes through — turning Allow Averaging off never blocks a move you make by hand.
Testing it first
The same switch is on the Backtest page, so you can see the difference before turning it on for real money. Run your strategy with averaging on and again with it off over a window where the same contract gets re-alerted — with it off, those repeat alerts are skipped instead of opening additional positions, so you can compare the results. See Backtest.
Tip
Allow Averaging only decides whether repeat alerts add to a position. Your Profit Target & Stop-Loss and every other exit rule still govern the position itself.