The Markets Processors function is designed to automate the application of strategies to markets as they gradually become available.

The function allows you to define multiple Processors that can operate simultaneously and be selectively enabled or disabled. Each Processor works as described below:

• At predefined regular intervals, it performs a search for markets that will start within the next two hours.
• This search is carried out based on the settings of a predefined Market Filter, which must be uniquely defined during the Processor setup phase. Markets filters are defined in the Markets Filter function. The filter properties related to the market start date/time are not considered, since—as mentioned above—the time interval taken into account will be the two hours following the Processor execution.
• The markets found are automatically added to the Markets Monitor, the predefined Strategy is applied to them, and it is then started.
  Note: if a market already has a strategy applied, the new strategy will not be applied.

The properties required to define a Processor are as follows:

• Name
• Event Type
• Markets Filter: market filters for the desired event type must be defined in advance within the Market Filter function; otherwise, this list will be empty and the Processor cannot be fully defined.
• Update Frequency: this parameter determines how often the Processor is executed.
• Strategy: define which strategy will be applied and started on the markets found.

To limit the number of markets that are progressively found, added to the Markets Monitor, and associated with a Strategy, you can adjust the following parameters:

• Reference interval duration: defines a duration that segments the time elapsed after the Processor starts.
• Maximum number of applications within the reference interval: defines the maximum number of markets that will be processed within the reference interval. For example, if a maximum of 5 markets every two hours is set, any additional markets found beyond the first 5 before the end of the 2-hour period can only be added in the next interval, while they will be discarded in the current interval.

Note: Processors are automatically saved when the session is closed and reloaded when the Markets Processors function is opened. Therefore, no manual action is required to save or reload them.