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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.
MT4/MT5 risk management software: choosing trading protection
Compare MT4/MT5 risk calculators, alerts, EAs and hosted protection. See which limits SentinelleTrader enforces and what to check during 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: calculations, limits and stopping rules
Understand trading risk management: per-trade budgets, daily loss limits, drawdown and stopping rules. Worked example and practical MT4/MT5 checks.
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.
Read the guide →How to limit your trading hours on MT4/MT5
Set trading days and hours on MT4/MT5 with SentinelleTrader Pro. Learn how settings, time zones and the end-of-session trading lock work.
Read the guide →How these guides are prepared
These guides are published by the company behind SentinelleTrader. Product explanations describe our own service; trading concepts refer to the documentation cited in each guide. Screenshots show our interface, and numerical examples are educational.
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