Dhan does not have a built-in daily loss limit for F&O. TradeGuard adds one via the official Dhan API — monitors your account every 5 seconds, fires the kill switch the moment your daily loss hits your preset amount. Automatic. No willpower needed.
Dhan is one of India's fastest-growing brokers for F&O trading — low brokerage, clean interface, good options chain. But like every Indian broker, Dhan has no built-in mechanism that automatically stops your trading when total losses for the day cross a threshold you set. That gap is what TradeGuard fills.
TradeGuard integrates with your Dhan account using the official Dhan API. It monitors your real-time P&L every 5 seconds via WebSocket and polling. The moment your daily loss crosses the limit you set — say ₹7,500 — TradeGuard fires the kill switch: squares off all open F&O positions and prevents new orders for the rest of the day.
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Go to Broker Login in TradeGuard → enter your Dhan Client ID and today's Access Token (from Dhan app → Profile → Developer API). TradeGuard verifies in seconds.
In the Kill Switch Rules section, toggle on Daily Loss Limit and enter your amount — e.g. ₹5,000. Add other rules if needed (max trades, time stop).
Click Start Monitoring each morning. The dashboard shows your live P&L and rule status. When your limit is hit, the kill switch fires automatically — no action required.
The most widely used framework: set daily loss limit at 1–2% of your trading capital. With ₹5 lakh deployed in F&O, that is ₹5,000–₹10,000. This ensures no single bad day can wipe more than 2% of your capital — giving you 50 bad days before your capital runs out (never happens in practice).
Set your daily loss limit at the amount where your monthly P&L would still be positive even if you hit the limit 3 times in a month. If you need ₹15,000 per month to be net positive, your daily limit should be ₹5,000 — three bad days at ₹5,000 still leaves you at break-even before good days.
What is the loss amount that causes you to make irrational decisions — revenge trade, double position size, ignore setup quality? Set your limit just below that number. For most F&O traders with ₹5–10 lakh capital, this is ₹5,000–₹15,000.
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