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AUTOMATIC
STOP LOSS F&O

Per-trade stop losses protect individual positions. An automatic account-level stop loss protects your entire trading day. TradeGuard monitors your F&O account every 5 seconds and halts all trading the moment a rule is breached — no action needed from you.

WHY PER-TRADE STOP LOSSES
ARE NOT ENOUGH

Every experienced F&O trader knows they should use stop losses. Most do — at the start of the day. The problem is what happens after the first loss. Under pressure, stop losses get widened. Or the trader adds a new position "to recover". Or the stop loss is placed but mentally overridden when price gets close.

The result: a ₹5,000 planned loss turns into ₹25,000 of actual damage across six trades. SEBI data confirms this pattern — 91% of F&O traders lose money, and most losses are concentrated on a handful of catastrophic days, not across hundreds of small ones.

91%
F&O traders lose money per SEBI data
5s
TradeGuard checks your account every 5 seconds
Average loss on bad days vs planned limit

ACCOUNT-LEVEL STOP LOSS
VS POSITION STOP LOSS

Position stop loss (what brokers give you)

Applies to one trade. Exits when that instrument hits a price level. Does nothing to prevent you from opening a new position immediately after. Does nothing when you have 8 positions open simultaneously and your overall account is bleeding. Requires you to place it correctly every single time.

Account-level stop loss (what TradeGuard adds)

Applies to your entire trading account for the day. Triggers when total daily losses breach your limit — regardless of how many positions are open, regardless of which instruments. Cannot be bypassed by opening new positions (TradeGuard's bypass monitor re-fires within 30 seconds). Set once at the start of the day, not on every trade.

SIX RULES THAT FORM
YOUR F&O SAFETY NET

Daily Loss Limit

Halt everything when total losses for the day reach your preset amount.

Profit Target Lock

Stop trading once you hit your daily target — protect realized gains.

Max Trades Per Day

Hard order count cap — directly prevents overtrading driven by boredom or revenge.

Time-Based Exit

Auto-exit all positions at a set time — works great for expiry day management.

Day-Based Block

Automatically skip specific weekdays — weekly expiry Thursdays, monthly expiry Fridays.

Specific Date Lock

Block trading on Budget, RBI days, election results — set in advance when thinking clearly.

AUTOMATIC STOP LOSS
THAT ACTUALLY WORKS.

Works with Dhan, Upstox and Zerodha. 4-day free trial — no card required.

FAQ

A stop loss applies to a single position — it exits one trade at a set price. A kill switch applies to the entire account — it stops all trading for the day when your total daily loss, trade count, or time rule is breached. F&O traders need both.
Manual stop losses require you to place them correctly on every trade. Under emotional pressure — after a loss, during volatile expiry sessions — traders widen stop losses, remove them, or simply don't place them. An automatic account-level kill switch bypasses human error by running server-side, independently of your emotional state.
Dhan, Zerodha (Kite Connect), and Upstox all support API-based order management that TradeGuard uses to implement an account-level automatic stop loss. Angel One and Groww support is coming soon.