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Risk & safety model

Limits, halts, the kill switch, why the Executor cannot be talked out of a rule, and what it takes to move from paper to real money.

8 articles

The rules the system cannot break live on one screen and are enforced by code that has no model in it. Tightening is one click; loosening is a ceremony.

  1. Limits and haltsThe Risk screen's three tabs, what each per-order limit means, the two rules that stop everything, what may be traded and the never-trade list, and why tightening is one confirmation while loosening is a ceremony.Owners & operators14 min read
  2. Exits, targets and stopsThe stop and target written when a position is opened are the plan. What the Executor does when one is touched, the broker stop resting behind it, when an exit acts without asking you, and the rare exit that waits.Owners & operators7 min read
  3. The kill switchPause trading is one click from every screen and never asks for a code; the three kinds of stop the banner tells apart, what a stop blocks and still lets out, where its history lives, what Resume trading does, and what Flatten does.Owners & operators12 min read
  4. Order pacingWhy there is no daily order count to run into any more, what the turnover budget is and how it follows your posture, the two runaway ceilings that stay as a safety rail, and why account size no longer turns a Speculative book into a Moderate one.Owners & operators6 min read
  5. The Executor cannot be argued withWhy no model, no chat and no clever proposal can move a limit. The Executor is plain code, the policy is pure and fully tested, and every loosening is a ceremony done by a person.Everyone on the book5 min read
  6. Paper vs livePaper is the default everywhere and nothing in the console switches to live; what the environment pill means, what the readiness scorecard measures, and the deploy-time ceremony that stands between a green scorecard and real money.Owners & operators7 min read
  7. How sizing scales with the size of your bookWhat changes as an account grows from $10,000 to $10 million or more: limits that follow equity, orders sized against each name's daily volume, entries worked in parts, a universe that drops thin names, and the capacity number on Strategy and in the Lab.Owners & operators6 min read
  8. Going live with real moneycoming soonPlanned. How one book reaches real-money trading (a checklist the system computes, a ceremony you perform, a $500 first stage, automatic demotion), and why none of it is a switch.Owners & operators7 min read