Halts and the kill switch

What a halt is

When a monitoring limit triggers, the platform halts new orders — of a run or of a whole account contour:

• every new order is rejected and shown in the feed as rejected;
• the strategy’s process keeps working: it computes indicators and can close and update positions;
• open positions stay open;
• you get a Telegram notification with the breached limits and the time the halt lifts automatically, if any.

A halt stays in force even if the limit is removed or relaxed afterwards.

Where to see it

• the run screen → Risk management: “New orders are halted by a risk limit”;
• the Risk management section: halted contours and runs, runs close to a limit, and limit usage (drawdown from the peak, loss of the day, losses in a row).

How it lifts

• Daily loss — automatically at midnight (in your time zone);
• Losing streak — automatically after the Pause after a streak, if set;
• Drawdown and minimum capital — manually only.

To lift a halt manually, click Resume on the run screen or the account card. The current capital then becomes the new reference: the peak and the start of the day are recalculated from it.

Kill switch

The account card in Risk management has a Kill switch. It immediately halts new orders of all runs of the contour (exchange + live or demo) until you lift it by hand. Open positions stay — they can still be closed.

Use it when something went wrong and you need to stop opening positions at once, without stopping the strategies’ processes.