Daily loss limit
Set a maximum percentage or absolute RON/EUR loss per calendar day. When the threshold is hit, the strategy pipeline pauses automatically until the next session opens — or until you manually clear it.
Risk Controls
What stops a bad week from becoming a bad year?
Highland Society's risk-control layer enforces your own pre-set rules automatically — drawdown limits, position caps, volatility filters — so discipline isn't something you have to find in the moment.
Risk management as infrastructure, not an afterthought
Every strategy that runs through Highland Society passes through a configurable risk-control layer before any order reaches a broker. This layer is not a reporting tool — it is an enforcement layer. If your daily loss limit is 2% of account equity and the platform reaches that threshold at 11:47 on a Tuesday, all pending signals are suspended for the rest of the session and open positions are flagged for review. Nothing requires your attention in the moment; the system holds the line while you're away from the screen. You configure your rules once during setup: per-trade exposure as a percentage of equity, maximum concurrent positions, maximum drawdown before strategy pause, time-of-day trading windows, and instrument-level concentration limits. Changes to these parameters are logged with a timestamp and require re-confirmation, preventing accidental edits during emotional market conditions.
Risk rules you can configure today
Each control is independent — apply the ones relevant to your strategy and leave the rest inactive.
Position size cap
Define maximum exposure per trade as a fraction of current account equity. The size calculator adjusts each order dynamically as your account balance changes — you don't need to update it manually after a drawdown.
Volatility filter
Suspend new entries when implied or realised volatility on a given instrument exceeds a configurable threshold. Useful for avoiding gap risk around major macro announcements or unexpectedly thin market conditions.
Kill-switch
A single-click (or API-triggered) kill-switch that cancels all pending orders, closes no positions automatically but flags them for review, and halts new signal processing immediately. Reactivation requires deliberate confirmation.
Trading window
Restrict strategy execution to specific time windows — for example, European session only, or exclude the 30 minutes around major economic releases. Signals arriving outside the window are logged but not executed.
“I set my daily loss limit to 1.5% when I first joined in early 2024. It triggered four times in the first two months — twice during news spikes I didn't anticipate. Both times I would have kept trading manually and made it worse. Knowing the system will stop before I do is the only reason I sleep properly during volatile weeks.”
— Andrei Moldovan, FX trader, Iași
Configure your risk rules before going live
Get in touch and we'll walk you through the risk-control setup process for your specific strategy and broker.