Wouldn't pausing the bot be like restarting it? This way it is like starting from 0 all over again?
No! Not at all. By "pause" I mean that I leave the bot running, but disable the trading engine. That way the bot won't make trades when I don't want it to. I just re-enable the trading engine when I want it to kick back in.
It's not "starting over" at all. My profits don't disappear just because I pause the software!