Risk management and account protection
Configure daily and weekly loss limits, set up the Position Reconciler, and use Hard Lock to protect your accounts during trading.
15 articles
Risk management — how it works
How to configure daily and weekly loss limits and understand how risk parameters are applied.
- How does Tradecopia's risk management feature work?How Tradecopia's Risk Management feature works, what parameters you can set, and how it responds when a limit is reached.
- How do I configure risk management parameters?How to configure, enable, and lock risk management parameters in Tradecopia, and what each broker requires for settings to take effect.
Risk management — troubleshooting
Fixes for risk settings that are not triggering, not enforcing, or cannot be changed.
- Why didn't my risk management settings trigger?What to check if your risk management settings didn't trigger when a threshold was reached, across all supported brokers.
- Why aren't my risk management parameters being enforced?Risk parameters that show a DISABLED badge have values configured but are not active. Both the value and the enable toggle must be set for a parameter to trigger.
- Why do my trades close immediately after opening?Trades that open and close instantly are almost always caused by a risk management limit that has already been reached on that account.
- Why can't I change my risk management settings?Locking your risk parameters and enabling them are separate actions. Locking prevents editing — it does not activate your risk rules.
- Why aren't my Tradovate risk settings taking effect?Why Tradovate risk parameters that are configured and enabled in Tradecopia may not be enforcing, and how to fix it with a manual push.
Position Reconciler
How the Position Reconciler detects and corrects mismatched positions across accounts.
- How the Position Reconciler protects your follower accountsHow Tradecopia's Position Reconciler detects and exits mismatched follower positions automatically, and how to configure it.
- What does the Position Reconciler do and when does it activate?How Tradecopia's Position Reconciler automatically protects follower accounts from unintended positions, and when it activates.
- Why is my follower account holding a position that the leader didn't open?A follower account holding a position the leader never placed is an orphan position. The most common cause is the Position Reconciler being disabled on the copy group.
- Why did replication stop automatically on my follower account?Replication stopping automatically with a breach indicator icon means the Position Reconciler detected a mismatched position and halted replication as a protective measure.
- Why does the Position Reconciler keep closing trades I placed manually on a follower?The Position Reconciler exits any follower position that doesn't match the leader — it cannot distinguish an intentional manual trade from an accidental mismatch.
- Why didn't the Position Reconciler close a mismatched position?The Position Reconciler only acts on events it observes in real time. If Tradecopia was offline or disconnected when a mismatch occurred, the reconciler will not have fired.
- What happens to my follower positions when I close and reopen Tradecopia?What happens to follower positions when Tradecopia closes mid-session, and how to resolve double positions or unexpected exits on restart.
Hard Lock
How Hard Lock works and how to use it to prevent trading during a set period.