Position sizing
Decide how large each trade can be relative to account size, instrument volatility, and broker margin rules before automation places orders.
Risk Controls
Define the boundaries before trading automation is allowed to act.
Automation can remove hesitation from execution, but it can also repeat mistakes quickly if the boundaries are vague. Risk controls should be part of setup, not an afterthought.
Risk controls reduce specific failure modes; they do not make trading risk-free and there is no profit guarantee.
Controls worth deciding before live execution
Daily and session limits
Loss limits, trade-count limits, and time windows help prevent one bad session from turning into a much larger operational problem.
Stop conditions
Define what should pause or stop automation: connection errors, unexpected fills, broker rejection, drawdown, or manual intervention.
Risk is not only a strategy setting
Automated trading risk also includes runtime uptime, broker execution quality, platform configuration, credential security, and whether the person operating the account understands what the automation is allowed to do. Keeping the broker account in your name preserves control, but it also means the account owner remains responsible for monitoring and decisions.
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Read Risk DisclosureCommon questions
Can risk controls prevent all trading losses?
No. Risk controls can limit defined behaviors, but they cannot prevent every market gap, broker issue, outage, slippage event, or strategy loss. There is no profit guarantee.
When should risk controls be configured?
They should be configured before live automation starts, then reviewed whenever account size, broker conditions, instruments, or strategy assumptions change.