Risk and follower protection
Follower position checks, flattening, disengagement, account limits, Live P&L dependencies, and broker-side controls.
Questions and answers
What is the difference between follower protection and account risk limits?
Follower protection compares a follower’s position relationship with the leader and can flatten and disengage an out-of-sync follower. Account risk limits evaluate an individual account’s configured daily loss, profit, or evaluation rules and can stop or lock copying for that account.
Why does follower protection wait before acting?
Leader and follower fills can arrive at different times. The configured 1–120 second delay gives a transient mismatch time to resolve; Copilink rechecks the positions before it acts.
Why is follower protection unavailable with multiple open instruments?
The current follower position comparison protects a single open instrument relationship. If the leader or follower holds more than one instrument, Copilink cannot safely infer the intended scaled net position, so position protection becomes unavailable for that relationship.
Does Flatten guarantee that an account is flat?
No. Flatten means Copilink sends cancellation and close-out requests according to the active flow. The broker controls acceptance and fills, so rejects, disconnects, market conditions, or remaining working orders can leave exposure.
Which account risk rules can take action?
Configured daily loss, daily profit, evaluation goal with its buffer, and evaluation consistency rules can take action. Intraday or trailing drawdown information and funded-account consistency are monitoring-only in the current app.
What is the difference between Limit hit and Locked?
Limit hit is the immediate state after an actionable rule triggers and Copilink begins its configured response. Locked is the continuing state that blocks new copying for the account until the applicable verified reset condition is met.
Does Copilink enforce intraday or trailing drawdown?
The current Standalone app displays intraday or trailing drawdown information for monitoring. It does not treat that display as an actionable close-out rule unless a separate supported risk rule shown in the account configuration is enabled.
Do Copilink risk rules replace broker-side limits?
No. Copilink-side rules and broker-enforced rules are separate systems. A broker can reject, restrict, or close activity independently, and a Copilink close-out request is still subject to broker acceptance and execution.
What happens when a leader or follower hits a risk limit?
A follower limit can close and disengage that follower according to the configured rule. A leader limit affects the active copy group and can begin group close-out or stopping behavior. In either case, verify every resulting broker position and working order.
Does a follower re-enable automatically after protection disengages it?
No. After follower protection disengages an account, inspect the broker state, resolve the mismatch or connection problem, and deliberately re-enable the follower only when its position is safe and intended.
Which protections depend on Live P&L or market data?
Rules that evaluate current account profit, loss, or drawdown need current broker P&L or enough position and market-price data to calculate it. When inputs are waiting, stale, partial, or unavailable, P&L-based protection can be reduced while an otherwise healthy broker route may continue copying.