Zerodha Kite is one of India's best trading platforms — but it has no automatic kill switch. TradeGuard integrates with Kite Connect to halt your F&O trading the moment a rule is breached. Daily loss limit, profit target, max trades, time rules — all enforced automatically.
Kite is fast, clean, and trusted by millions of Indian traders. But speed cuts both ways — on a bad day, Kite's low-friction interface makes it equally easy to take your 10th losing trade as your first. There is no circuit breaker, no daily loss hard stop, nothing to prevent a ₹5,000 bad day from turning into ₹50,000 of damage.
TradeGuard fills that gap. It integrates with Zerodha via the official Kite Connect v3 API and runs your kill switch server-side — no app running on your device, no dependency on your phone staying on. When a rule fires, TradeGuard cancels pending orders and squares off open positions through Kite automatically.
Sign up on TradeGuard and select Zerodha. A 4-day free trial starts immediately — no credit card required.
Click "Connect Zerodha" in your dashboard. A Kite login popup opens. Log in with your Zerodha credentials — TradeGuard receives an access token, not your password.
Configure daily loss limit (e.g. ₹5,000), profit target, max trades, time stop (e.g. 1:30 PM), expiry day block — any combination.
Start your TradeGuard session before market opens. Trade in Kite as you normally would. TradeGuard monitors in the background and fires the kill switch if needed.
When a rule is triggered, TradeGuard sends cancel + squareoff orders through the Kite Connect API. All open F&O positions are squared off at market price. All pending orders are cancelled. New orders placed in Kite after the kill switch fires are detected by TradeGuard's 30-second re-check loop and squared off again — preventing bypass.
Auto-halt when total daily losses reach your preset limit — ₹2,000, ₹10,000, or any amount.
Stop trading when you hit your profit goal — never give back gains chasing more.
Hard cap on daily order count — the most direct tool against overtrading.
Auto-exit at 1:30 PM on expiry days, 2:45 PM on regular days — your choice.
Block Thursday expiry sessions, or any weekly pattern that historically hurts you.
Pre-lock RBI policy dates, Budget day, election results — set it before the event, in calm.
The most common failure mode of manual kill switches is that traders re-enter positions after triggering their own limit. With TradeGuard, if you place a new order in Kite after the kill switch fires, TradeGuard's re-square loop detects the new position within 5 seconds and squares it off again. This loop runs until 3:30 PM IST.
The squareoff orders are tagged internally so TradeGuard can distinguish its own orders from yours — preventing a feedback loop.
The kill switch Zerodha doesn't provide. 4-day free trial, no card needed.