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Trading risk management guides
Understand your limits, prepare your stopping rules and enforce them on MT4 and MT5.
Choose and activate protection
Understand the tool, check connectivity and choose the features you need.
How to choose trading risk management software for MT4 and MT5
Compare risk calculators, alerts, Expert Advisors and trading locks. Understand what MT4/MT5 risk management software actually does before starting a trial.
Read the guide →Protect your MT4/MT5 trading on iPhone and Android
Keep trading limits active on your phone with your computer off. Check your MT4/MT5 connection, prepare a mobile session and understand hosted protection.
Read the guide →How to automate your trading rules on MT4 and MT5
Stop-losses, alerts and account protection: understand the differences and prepare to enforce MT4/MT5 rules with SentinelleTrader.
Read the guide →How to protect an MT4/MT5 trading account: which rules matter?
Trading account protection: compare stop-losses, combined exposure, drawdown and MT4/MT5 trading locks, including their limitations.
Read the guide →Calculate and understand your limits
Prepare per-trade risk, daily loss limits and challenge requirements.
Trading risk management: the complete guide
Trading risk management: position size, drawdown and loss limits. Learn how to protect an MT4/MT5 account and enforce your rules.
Read the guide →Trading risk calculator: per-trade and daily loss budgets
Calculate your per-trade risk, daily loss budget and remaining allowance after losses and a cost reserve. Formulas, examples and MT4/MT5 limitations.
Read the guide →Daily loss limit: how to define your daily loss cap
Understand daily loss limits: reference capital, realised and floating losses, fees, reset times and worked examples.
Read the guide →How to stay within your daily drawdown limit
Track daily losses, open-position risk and reset times to prepare a stopping procedure before breaking your rules.
Read the guide →How to protect a prop-firm account from loss limits
Prop-firm accounts: compare daily loss and drawdown definitions, choose a buffer and check MT4/MT5 protection before trading.
Read the guide →Stick to your trading plan
Decide when to stop and understand what a trading lock does.
How to stick to your trading risk management
Turn your trading plan into enforceable rules with preparation, stopping conditions, a discipline journal and automated protection.
Read the guide →How to stop trading after 3 stop-losses
Prepare a stopping rule after several losses: SL counting, minimum loss threshold, reset time and MT4/MT5 protection.
Read the guide →How to avoid revenge trading
Recognise the urge to recover a loss and prepare practical rules to interrupt a sequence of emotional trades.
Read the guide →How to stop trading after a loss limit on MT4/MT5
MT4/MT5 loss limits: distinguish a stop-loss, an alert and an account-level trading lock, then check connection and reset settings.
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