A good practice session needs a clear ending. Start by asking whether you still have an unfinished form or whether you already submitted a request. If you are only reviewing a purchase, use its cancel or close control to leave the form. If you already submitted it, closing the form does not reverse the request. Check the outcome in the records.

Our small manual Paper purchase did not require enabling a strategy. If you followed that exercise, you can stop entering requests, record the outcome, and leave the simulated position in place. Ending this lesson does not require a sale. A practice position remaining on the screen is something you can understand and document, rather than a reason to press unfamiliar controls.

If you separately enabled Paper automation, review its Paper controls and current state. Do not assume that leaving the page has disabled it. The strategy controls and position-management controls have their own purposes. Read what the chosen action says it changes, then verify the result. The later automation lessons will take you through those workflows in detail.

The same care is essential for existing Live activity. Selecting Paper changes the workspace you view. It does not universally cancel pending requests, sell holdings, or stop Live position watchers. Signing out or closing a browser is also not a reliable instruction to stop server-side activity. The app can keep doing work that you previously enabled even when you are no longer looking at its screen.

The desktop's background-Live notice explains this distinction. It mentions strategy controls and a Trading pause. Be aware that the global Trading pause is a restricted staff control in the current interface; it is not a button every customer can access. Do not spend this exercise searching for a missing emergency switch or assume that switching to Paper has the same effect.

If you need to stop real activity, inspect your authorized Live strategy and position controls and their stated scope. Verify any resulting order or position state through the relevant records and connected exchange as appropriate. A strategy being disabled and a position being closed are different outcomes. If you cannot establish what is still active, seek help without sending credentials or pretending the uncertainty has been resolved.

For the end of our exercise, keep or return the view to Paper and wait for the account information to update. Read the selected label, any warning, and the practice records together. Note any simulated holding you left open. If you already had Live automation, include its separately verified state in your notes; a Paper label alone cannot answer that question.

Your stopping point is now a description you can trust: no more practice requests are being entered, the result has been checked, the visible workspace is understood, and any separate automation has been considered. This is a useful habit beyond this lesson. It replaces the vague feeling of being finished with a clear understanding of what remains active and what you actually stopped.