Max Risk Per Trade
The ceiling on how much of your balance a single trade may lose.
Max Risk Per Trade is the largest share of your balance that one trade is allowed to lose if its stop loss is hit. It is the setting the bot works backwards from to decide position size — set it once, and every trade sizes itself to respect it.
Where to find it
Main menu → 📊 Risk Management → 📊 Max Risk Per Trade
The Risk Management panel shows the current value like this:
📊 Max Risk Per Trade: 2.5% ($125.00)The percentage is what you set. The dollar figure beside it is what that percentage is worth right now, recalculated every time you open the panel.
What the percentage applies to
The dollar figure is a percentage of your total balance, which is:
total balance = exchange wallet balance + Collateral BalanceCollateral Balance is money you hold outside the exchange but still want counted when sizing trades. If you have not set one, total balance is simply your exchange wallet balance.
The dollar figure is always rounded down to the cent, so the number the panel shows is never a cent more than what a trade will actually put at risk.
How it sizes a trade
The bot does not have a fixed position size. It derives one from the distance between your entry and your stop loss:
position size ≈ risk amount ÷ (distance to stop + fees per unit)A tight stop produces a large position; a wide stop produces a small one. Either way the loss at the stop stays close to the same dollar amount. This is why changing Max Risk Per Trade changes every future trade at once, and why you should not think of it as a leverage setting — leverage is calculated afterwards from whatever size the risk implies.
Accepted values
| Range | Greater than 0, up to 10 |
| Unit | Percent of total balance |
| Scope | Per worker — each worker has its own value |
To change it, tap the button and reply with a number. Send 2.5, not 2.5%.
10% is a limit, not a suggestion
The bot accepts up to 10% because it is a hard bound, not advice. Risking 10% per trade means roughly seven consecutive losses halves the account.
It is a ceiling, not a fixed value
Sniper and Manual Entry both let you type a risk percentage for an individual trade. That per-trade number is checked against this setting, and anything higher is rejected:
5% exceeds the max risk ceiling of 2.5%.So Max Risk Per Trade is the most any single trade can ever risk, whatever you type at entry time.
Related settings
- Dollar Risk Cap — when enabled, the dollar figure shown here becomes a hard budget the trade cannot exceed, rather than a target the sizing math aims at.
- Daily Loss Limit — caps losses across the whole day, not just one trade. When the day's remaining budget is smaller than this setting allows, the smaller of the two wins.
- Balance Range — limits how much of your balance a position may occupy as margin, which is a separate constraint from how much it may lose.