You set the limits.
Not the strategy.

A strategy decides when to buy. It does not decide how much. That is four settings of yours, and they are checked before anything reaches your account.

How much one trade can use. How much can be open at once. How far your balance can fall before everything stops. And the button that stops it all right now, from your phone if you are not at a desk.

On every plan, including Starter Try your limits on old data first

One trade: You set the size; the same every time, or less when markets are fast
All at once: Per asset and total; hard limits, not targets
Bad stretch: Stops on its own; at the number you picked
Stop button: One button; works from your phone

The four settings

Four questions, answered once

You answer these when you switch a strategy on, and you can change them whenever you like. They start on cautious numbers. If you set one unusually high, the app tells you at the time.

1 · How much one trade can use

Before a strategy ever runs, you decide how much of your account a single trade is allowed to use. Two percent, five percent, whatever you choose. You can also tell it to use less when the market is moving fast and go back to normal when it calms down.

2 · How much can be open at once

Two more limits. One caps how much can sit in any single coin, so a strategy that keeps buying Bitcoin cannot end up holding most of your account in it. The other caps everything added together, so several strategies buying on the same day cannot push you past your total.

3 · When it stops on its own

You pick how far your balance can fall from its highest point. Say eight percent. If it gets there, the engine closes what is open, stops taking new trades and tells you. It does not try to win the money back, because that is how a bad week becomes a bad year.

4 · The button that stops everything

One button halts every strategy straight away. It is in the desktop app and on your phone, and it works in the middle of a trade. If you cannot stop something quickly, you are not really in control of it, so this is never more than one tap away.

Why the settings matter more than the signals

Same signals, very different results

Two people can follow the same strategy for a year and end up nowhere near each other. Not because one of them read the market better. Because one put two percent of their account into each trade and the other put twenty.

Every strategy has a losing run in it somewhere. Good ones included. Whether that run costs you a slow month or most of your account comes down to the size that was set before it started, and nobody sets that size well while it is happening.

So these settings are part of switching a strategy on. They are not an advanced screen you might find later, and there is no way to run anything here without answering all four.

What a set of limits looks like

one trade              2% of the account
                       1% when the market is unusually fast

most in BTC           10%
most in ETH            8%
most in anything else  5%
most open at once     25%

stop trading when     the balance is 8% below its high point
what happens then     close everything, take nothing new, alert me

kill switch           always available, desktop and phone

The board at the top of this page is running limits like these. Each bar is how much is currently in that coin. When a bar stops short of what the strategy asked for, the hollow section next to it is the part that was refused. When the bottom bar reaches its line, everything closes and nothing new is taken until it resets.

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You set the limits.Not the strategy.