Trade Guardrails

The Trade Guardrails account feature helps you protect your account by automatically enforcing safety rules on your open trades. It continuously monitors your positions and closes them automatically if they exceed your configured limits.

You can use Trade Guardrails to prevent positions from becoming too large, to limit total exposure on a single symbol, or to avoid keeping trades open longer than intended.

This feature is especially useful for traders who want an extra layer of protection when copying trades or running automated strategies.

Compared to the basic copier features, Trade Guardrails are not limited to slave accounts only. They can also be used on master accounts, where trades are opened, providing higher-level, account-wide protection by automatically reacting when risk limits are exceeded. Of course, they can also be used on slave accounts for additional safety.

How it works

When Trade Guardrails is active, MetaCopier checks your open positions and applies the following protections:

• Maximum position size Positions can be automatically closed if they exceed your maximum allowed trade size.

• Optional per-symbol aggregation Instead of checking each position individually, you can also apply the limit to the total exposure per symbol. This prevents exposure stacking when multiple trades are opened on the same market.

• Maximum open time Positions can be closed automatically if they stay open longer than your allowed holding time.

If no limits are set, the feature will not close any trades.

Configuration

• Activate Trade Guardrails Toggle to enable or disable the feature. When disabled, no trades are monitored or closed.

• Maximum position size Defines the largest trade size that is allowed. If an open position exceeds this value, it may be closed automatically.

• Aggregate per symbol (optional) When enabled, the system checks the total open exposure per symbol instead of checking each position individually. This is recommended if you frequently open multiple trades on the same symbol.

• Maximum open time (seconds) Defines how long a trade is allowed to stay open. If the time limit is exceeded, the position may be closed automatically.

Symbol-specific rules (optional)

Trade Guardrails supports custom limits for individual symbols.

This allows you to define stricter or more flexible rules depending on the market you trade (for example, tighter rules on more volatile instruments).

Symbol-specific rules always take priority over the global settings.