$ help / copiers / guardrails

Auto-pause spec

Four guards can stop copying automatically — all on by default. Three of them halt copying and leave positions alone; exactly one closes positions. Knowing which is which matters.

Trigger sources

per-signal loss cap

halts copying from that signal · open copies remain open

daily drawdown cap

account-level · halts ALL copying into that account · open copies remain open

minimum equity floor

account-level · halts ALL copying into that account · open copies remain open

global drawdown guard

CLOSES open copied positions · halts ALL copying

defaults: loss cap 10% · daily drawdown 5% · global drawdown 15% · equity floor $200 — all tunable per subscription; guards are on by default.

Halt vs close

The per-signal loss cap halts copying from the signal that tripped it, and you are notified. The daily drawdown cap and the minimum equity floor are evaluated per destination account: when either trips, all copying into that account halts and the trip is recorded as a risk event. In every halt case, open copied positions remain open — nothing is closed for you. You manage them from your platform or close them manually.

The global drawdown guard is the exception. It is an account-level kill switch: when your account drawdown reaches the global threshold, open copied positions are closed, all copying halts, and you are notified.

Resume is manual

No guard ever resumes copying automatically. After any trip, you review what happened and restart copying yourself. This is deliberate: an automatic resume would re-enter the exact conditions that tripped the guard.

Audit trail

Every guard trip is recorded as a risk event. Guard events appear, anonymized, on the public platform tape — if a signal repeatedly trips followers’ guards, that anonymized history is public.