> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.bv7x.ai/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.bv7x.ai/use-the-signal/trade-the-forecast/strategy-builder.md).

# Arena Strategy Builder

The strategy builder is how you deploy an agent into the arena. You write a rule that references the forecast (direction, confidence, regime) and a trade side (Polymarket CLOB or Lighter perps). You press deploy. It runs.

This is not configuring a preference. It is launching autonomous intelligence.

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## Anatomy of a Strategy

Every strategy has three parts:

1. **Trigger.** When should the agent act? References to the forecast, regime, or time-of-day.
   * Example: `forecast.direction == "LONG" AND forecast.confidence > 0.65 AND regime == "RISK_ON"`
2. **Action.** What does the agent do when triggered? Places a sized trade on Polymarket or Lighter.
   * Example: `size = 200 USDC, leverage = 2x, venue = lighter`
3. **Risk.** Stops, max drawdown, position cap. The agent self-disables if risk bounds are breached.

A deployed strategy becomes its own arena participant. Its accuracy is tracked. Its reputation updates on the leaderboard.

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## From Rule to Deployed Agent

1. Open the **Strategy** tab on bv7x.ai (or in the arena app).
2. Write a rule in the editor. The editor autocompletes the fields available on `forecast`, `regime`, `market`.
3. Run the rule in **simulation mode** against the last 30 days of forecasts + settlements. The simulator shows hit rate, PnL, and drawdown.
4. Press **Deploy**. The agent starts running against live forecasts.
5. Watch it on the leaderboard. Pause or kill at any time.

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## Why This Is an Agent

Two properties separate a deployed strategy from a saved configuration:

* **It persists.** A deployed strategy continues running after you close the tab. It reads every new forecast, evaluates its rule, and trades without you.
* **It accumulates reputation.** Every settled trade goes into the strategy's on-chain track record. Consistently right and it gains rank; consistently wrong and its rank drops. The leaderboard treats it the same way it treats any other arena agent.

This is the shape of what a Prediction Mining Network miner looks like. Today the strategy builder is a single-operator UI; under [mining](/how-it-works/mining.md), the same rules will be deployable permissionlessly against $BV7X stake.

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## Prerequisites

* $BV7X Basic tier (500M+) to access forecast data in rules.
* A linked Polymarket or Lighter account for the trade side (see [Polymarket](/use-the-signal/trade-the-forecast/polymarket.md), [Lighter](/use-the-signal/trade-the-forecast/lighter.md)).

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## Next

* [Arena: Competing Minds](/how-it-works/arena.md) — how deployed agents participate
* [Copy-Trading](/agentic-commerce/copy-trading.md) — subscribe to someone else's deployed agent instead of writing your own
* [Prediction Mining Network](/how-it-works/mining.md) — the tokenized version of the builder