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Maximum loss

The Maximum Loss – Prevent open module, will prevent opening new trades when an amount of loss has been reached within a window of time (timeframe), including the profit/loss of the currently opened orders.

Settings

Section titled “Settings”
  • Maximum loss: the maximum amount of loss in pips, money or percentage of your equity.
  • Unit: Select pips, money or percentage of your equity.
  • Timeframe: Select the timeframe in which the loss has been reached. For example if you select D1, then all losses in the current day will add up to your total amount of loss.
    • Current = loss within timeframe of the chart.
    • M1 = loss within 1 minute.
    • M5 = loss within 5 minutes.
    • M15 = loss within 15 minutes.
    • M30 = loss within 30 minutes.
    • H1 = loss within 1 hour.
    • H4 = loss within 4 hours.
    • D1 = loss within 1 day.
    • W1 = loss within 1 week.
    • MN1 = loss within 1 month.

How the timeframe window works

Section titled “How the timeframe window works”

The window aligns to the start of the selected period and resets when a new period begins:

  • D1 resets at the start of each day (midnight, broker/server time).
  • W1 resets at the start of each week.
  • MN1 resets at the start of each month.

When the window resets, the accumulated loss is cleared and the EA is free to open new orders again — provided your other strategy modules also allow it.

Example

Section titled “Example”

Suppose your Maximum loss is set to $16 with a Timeframe of D1, and your EA hits its second Stop Loss at 16:00, pushing the day’s total loss past $16. New orders are now blocked for the rest of that day.

The block is not lifted 24 hours later (16:00 the next day). Instead, it is lifted when the D1 window resets at midnight (00:00), because the next day starts a fresh $0 loss count. From midnight onward the EA can open its next order.

Afterthought from the team

Section titled “Afterthought from the team”

We could’ve built a module which closes all current orders when the maximum loss has been reached, but we decided not to and instead only prevent opening new orders. Why? We believe when an EA opens an order it should allow for the order to run its normal course, instead of potentially being cut off premature. We believe that maximum loss shouldn’t be an afterthought, but should be a well thought out part of the EA. Therefore we recommend the following approach: when you want a maximum of 5% of loss a day without passing that percentage, then please make sure that the sum of your maximum loss (of this module) and your Stop Loss percentage (from the Stop Loss module) will never pass 5%. So if your Stop Loss module has a SL of 1% of equity, then you would be wise to set this module to 3.5 % of equity.