When a loss limit trips, should it also tighten the stops?
11 November 2026 · a study on MonsterDesk's own paper account and its own tests
- Question
- When the account is down 3% in 24 hours or 6% in 7 days, the desk stops opening positions. The rule also moved every open position's stop closer. Nobody had tested that second part.
- What we did
- Replayed the whole desk on 360 days of real prices. At every hour a limit would have tripped, we copied the desk and played the same moment forward five days in three ways: no limit, no new positions, and no new positions plus tighter stops.
- What it showed
- Tighter stops did not protect the account.
Average change in a $100,000 account over the next five days. Five cases at the live level is a small sample, so the decision also leans on the stop study above, which pointed the same way.
Limit at Times it tripped No new positions Plus tighter stops 3.0% (the live rule) 5 -$744 -$1,365 2.0% 17 -$661 -$694 1.5% 25 -$32 -$214 1.0% 39 -$236 -$226 - What changed
- A loss limit now stops new positions and nothing else. Open positions keep the stops they were tested with. The limit itself stays: five cases is too few to remove a safety control.
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