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Risk management
The limits that decide whether an automated account survives a bad week.
A strategy with a mediocre edge and strict limits survives long enough to be improved. One with a good edge and no limits eventually meets the day it was not designed for. These articles cover what the limits should measure, when they should fire, and where they have to run.
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Prop Firm Drawdown Protection: Where It Actually Runs
Every tool in this category sells daily loss protection. Almost none of them tells you where the limit is being watched from, or what happens to it when the connection drops.
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Automated Risk Management: Strategy vs Account Limits
One strategy can spend an entire account's daily budget while the others keep trading. Where the limits sit decides whether that ends the account.