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.
Set an automatic daily loss limit on your Dhan account with TradeGuard. When your live F&O P&L hits the limit, TradeGuard fires the kill switch instantly via Dhan's Partner API — squaring off open positions and locking your account. Free for Dhan users. Setup takes under 5 minutes.
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.
Free with Dhan · ₹1,499/mo for Zerodha, Upstox & Angel One Takes 2 minutes. Select Dhan as your broker during registration.
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.
Get started. No credit card. Connect your Dhan account and set your limit now.