Risk management
Marketing/Content note: Initial scaffolding — expand with concrete examples and screenshots of configuring each control.
Every Horizon strategy can include risk controls. Use them on every strategy — they bound losses and make behaviour predictable.
Stop-loss
Automatically closes a position when it moves against you by a set amount, capping the loss on a trade.
Take-profit
Automatically closes a position once it reaches a target gain, locking in profit.
Position sizing
Controls how much capital each trade uses — a fixed amount, a percentage of the portfolio, or a risk-based size. Smaller sizes reduce the impact of any single losing trade.
Define risk rules in the same plain-English description as your entry and exit, e.g. "risk 1% of the portfolio per trade with a 2% stop-loss and 4% take-profit."
Risk controls reduce but never eliminate risk. Markets can gap past a stop-loss. Nothing here is financial advice.