RiskBrake is a brake for your trading platform. Hit your daily loss limit and every new position is closed out again within seconds, until tomorrow. No revenge trading, no overtrading, no talking yourself into one more trade. Reinstalling won't help, changing the clock won't help. Closing your own positions always stays possible. That's the whole point.
Create your account, start your 14-day free trial, then download. Built for ATAS and ATAS X. Read the guide first.
New entries are locked until tomorrow, 08:30.
Open positions can still be closed at any time.
You already know the rules. RiskBrake is the trading discipline tool that makes you keep them, even at 3pm on a red day.
Daily loss limit, max trades per day, cooldown after a losing streak. Configured when you're calm, not when you're tilted.
Limit hit → the chart panel locks and any new position is closed out within seconds, until the next session. The lock lives on our servers, so deleting or reinstalling the tool changes nothing.
The lock blocks only new entries. You can always reduce or close an open position. Your safety is never in your own way.
Most risk tools protect your limits with a password. You set that password.
So at 3pm on a red day, the tool asks the person you did not trust whether they would like to continue. You type it in. That is not a lock. It is a slower click.
RiskBrake has no password, no override and no unlock button. Not in the dashboard, not in the admin panel, not for me. A lock ends when its time runs out, and that is the only way it ends.
The unlock time is decided by our server, not your PC. Your Windows clock is irrelevant.
Delete the strategy or indicator while the market is open and the guardian locks you out of the trading platform for the rest of the day. Reinstalling just shows the lock again.
Closing and reducing positions is never blocked. Only opening new risk is.
Honest note: this is a brake, not a cage. The panel lock covers the chart that carries the strategy, you can unlock it yourself, and anyone willing to rebuild the tool from source can get out. It is built to outlast the 5-minute tilt impulse, not to defeat a determined engineer. Account-level lockdown is on the roadmap for true hard enforcement.
A server-side trading lock for ATAS and ATAS X, built deep instead of wide: every update makes the lock harder to cheat.
Live today: server-side lock, daily loss limit, max trades, loss-streak cooldown, max contracts (micro vs mini sizing still being refined). Clock-change proof, reinstall proof. The platform we trade ourselves.
Live today: trading sessions with their own hours and a lock per session, own limits for every account plus one bracket over all of them, a change window for your rules whose day and time you pick yourself, hot keys for flatten and a self-triggered emotion pause. In testing: a journal that writes itself from your real trades, where a screenshot can still be missing. Planned: a countdown at session end.
The ultimate level: optional account-password custody. Locked means locked, on any device, any install.
Yes. The lock state and the unlock time live on our servers, not your machine. Reinstalling re-fetches the active lock; your system clock is ignored. And if you delete the strategy while the market is open, the guardian locks you out of the trading platform for the rest of the day, but never while a position is open, so you are always the one who closes it.
After a losing streak it forces a cooldown, and when you hit your daily loss limit or max trades per day the chart trading panel is locked and any new position is flattened within seconds, until the next session. To be exact: on a locked account new orders are rejected before they reach the market. If one still gets through (for example in replay), RiskBrake closes it right away, so the attempt costs you at most the commission, not the risk. By the next day, the tilt is gone and you trade with a clear head.
That is exactly who it is built for. One tilt session can blow a challenge, and most firms charge a reset fee. You set your own daily loss limit inside the firm's drawdown, and RiskBrake ends your day when you reach yours. It measures closed trades, so it cannot stop a single trade from breaching a firm rule. What it stops is the second, third and fourth trade after the first one hurt.
Never. Only opening new risk is restricted. Closing or reducing an open position always works, and the trading platform is never closed while a position is open. Both are hard safety rules, checked automatically on every build.
ATAS and ATAS X are available now. One installer sets up both. Our focus is making the ATAS lock perfect before we add more platforms.
Yes. In ATAS X, RiskBrake runs as an indicator on the chart, because ATAS X has no strategies on the chart. The same rules, limits and locks apply as in ATAS, the guardian watches both platforms and puts RiskBrake back on a chart the next time you start ATAS X. The panic hot key locks you in both platforms; flattening by hot key in ATAS X is still being tested. On a locked account new orders are rejected before they reach the market; in Market Replay, RiskBrake closes a new position right away instead. Closing always works. One difference: in ATAS X the order panel (Chart Trader) is not locked during a lock, new orders are still rejected, and flattening uses the Close position function of ATAS X itself. More about RiskBrake for ATAS X.
No, and that is the whole design. Most risk tools protect your limits with a password that you set yourself, which means that in the moment that counts the tool asks the person you did not trust whether they want to continue. RiskBrake has no password, no override and no unlock button, not in the dashboard, not in the admin panel, and not for me as the operator. A lock ends when its time runs out. What always stays possible is closing or reducing an open position.
I've been trading for 7 years, and I built RiskBrake to get you through the hard moments. I built in every safeguard I use myself. It is a brake, not a cage: with enough time and effort it can be removed, and that is on purpose, because nobody should be trapped by my software.
I know how brutal the minutes after a dumb stop-out are. RiskBrake is a brake for exactly those minutes, nothing more. If trading has stopped being a business for you and feels like gambling, a piece of software is not the answer, and I would rather say that than sell you one.
You get a lot of control here. The ultimate one is the full lockout until the next day. Because I know it from my own screen: the next day your head is clear again and you can think straight.
No. RiskBrake is a self-discipline tool that enforces limits you set yourself. It gives no trading signals and no advice.
Try RiskBrake free for 14 days, then $39.99 a month. Create your account, start your trial, set your rules, and install it for ATAS and ATAS X in a couple of minutes.
Windows · Built for ATAS and ATAS X · nothing else to install
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