How Breach Guard protects an account

Breach Guard runs on our servers, around the clock, not in your browser. Every few seconds it reads each linked account's equity straight from the exchange and measures it against the account's daily and max loss limits.

Switch it on for an account

1. 01

   Track the account with its limits

   Add it in Accounts with the daily and max loss limits (see Set your firm's rules).

2. 02

   Connect and link its key

   Connect the exchange key and link it to the tracked account (see Connect an exchange account).

3. 03

   Set where it acts

   Breach Guard acts at sets the safety margin, 90% of each limit by default. The account page then shows the guard's status and its log.

What it does, in order

• At your safety margin: new entries are blocked and resting entry orders are cancelled. The account gets no new copies and the Terminal skips it.
• Half-way from the margin to the firm's limit: it flattens the account's open positions with reduce-only orders, which can only close. At the default 90% margin, that's 95% of the limit.
• Until the account is flat: if a close fails it keeps trying and tells you.

An example

Illustration only: a $100,000 account with a 5% daily loss limit may lose $5,000 in a day. With the default 90% margin, new entries are blocked once the day is $4,500 down, and open positions are flattened at $4,750 down, before the firm's $5,000 line.

How limits are measured

• Daily loss counts from the account's equity at the firm's reset hour. If you haven't set the reset hour, it counts from the highest equity of the last 24 hours, the strictest reading.
• Static max loss is a fixed floor below the starting size. Trailing max loss rises with the highest equity seen, up to the starting size.
• Unknown limits block: if a daily or max loss limit isn't set, new entries on that account stay blocked until it is.