Max Risk Per Trade

Max Risk Per Trade is the largest share of your balance that one trade is allowed to lose if its stop loss is hit. Each trade is sized from the risk you give that trade - its Initial Risk % - and this setting is the ceiling that figure is checked against. It also decides how large a trade may grow when you add to it, and the leverage is chosen for that ceiling size.

Where to find it

Main menu → 📊 Risk Management → 📊 Max Risk Per Trade

✏️ Update 📊 Max Risk Per Trade Current: 2.5% Must be greater than 0 and up to 10. Reply to this message with the new value. 📖 How this panel works9:35 PM

Current is what you have set. On the Risk Management panel itself the same value is shown with what it is worth in dollars beside it, recalculated every time that panel opens.

Reply to the prompt with a number. Send 2.5, not 2.5%.

What the percentage applies to

The dollar figure is a percentage of your total balance, which is:

total balance = exchange wallet balance + Collateral Balance

Collateral 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.

On an account with $2145.30 on the exchange and a $500.00 Collateral Balance, total balance is $2645.30, and this setting at 2.5% allows a trade to lose $66.13. Move that $500.00 collateral out and the same 2.5% is worth $53.63 - the percentage did not change, the balance underneath it did.

How a trade is sized

The bot does not have a fixed position size. It derives one from the trade's own risk and 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. Max Risk Per Trade is not a leverage setting either: leverage is worked out afterwards, for the largest position this ceiling would allow, so that adding to the trade later never needs the leverage changed.

Accepted values


Range	Greater than `0`, up to `10`
Unit	Percent of total balance
Scope	Per account - every account has its own value
Default	`1%` until you change it

The prompt states the rule itself:

Must be greater than 0 and up to 10.

Reply with anything outside it and the prompt comes straight back with that same line repeated as a warning, as described on Buffer Percent. Nothing is saved until a reply passes.

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.

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 a trade's risk would overrun what is left of the day's budget, the trade is refused - or, in Cap Risk mode, sized down to what is left.
Buffer Percent - holds part of your exchange balance back from margin. It cannot change what a trade risks, only whether there is room to place it.
Balance Range - warns when too little of your total balance is actually sitting on the exchange, which is the gap a large Collateral Balance opens up. It never stops a trade.