Books

A slice of your portfolio running one method, drawing on the mandate's pool.

Desks rarely run capital as one undifferentiated pile — they split it into books, each with a strategy and its own results, and the desk stakes the pool toward what earns. That separation is what makes performance legible: you can see what each thesis earns, not just the blended total.

In Quantreno a book is the main thing you create and track: one style, authored limits (a per-trade cap, a family cap, an optional deployment cap), and the rationale you adopt onto it — usually minted as your own copy of a program, born bare until that adoption. New accounts start with a few starter books — presets you can reshape or delete like any book you'd create yourself.

Capital is declared once, on the mandate: the pool backs every book, and the desk sizes each trade from the method's own record under your limits. A discretionary book places nothing without the thesis you adopt, and a systematic book nothing without the allocation you confirm — and every trade still confirms one at a time.

The words on this page

Book: A slice of your portfolio running one style — one thesis, authored limits, drawing on the mandate's pool.; A standing strategy running one style: one thesis, authored limits (per-trade, family, an optional deployment cap), and a risk target — drawing on your mandate's pool. The main thing you create and track — usually minted as your own copy of a catalog program. An event program mints no book: it joins your forecast book as a program.
Pool: Your mandate's committed capital. You split it into your books' amounts, inside the cash limit; the rest is the reserve.; Declared once on the mandate (seeded at signup) and edited there. Each book's allocation takes its amount from the pool, and your books' amounts together stay inside the cash limit. The pool outside the limit is the reserve: no book uses it, and it is cash for margin calls. The desk sizes each book inside its allocation, and at placement the mandate's limits bound every order.
Deployment cap: An optional ceiling you author on what one book may deploy of the pool — absent, the pool is the bound.; The authored maximum a book may commit of the mandate pool, enforced at placement with the figures when it binds. Optional by design: most books run uncapped and draw on the shared pool under the per-trade and family caps — you cap a book you want walled. In the forecast book each program holds its own, and each line meets its own program's cap. Closes and cancels are never blocked.