# Account Protection

This group is your EA’s **safety net**, a set of “circuit breakers” that help protect the account from **bad days, bad weeks, and accidental over-exposure**.

The idea is simple: *even a good strategy can have ugly moments*. Account Protection gives you **hard limits** and **account-wide coordination rules** so one chart (or a wild market spike) doesn’t turn into a full-account problem.

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### What these options protect you from

#### 1) Loss limits over time (daily / weekly)

Use these to cap damage if conditions change or the market turns chaotic. There are also reference pages to help you interpret and set the limits correctly.

#### 2) Emergency stop systems (Hard Stop / Equity Stop)

These are “last line of defense” stops that can halt trading (and/or force action) when a defined threshold is hit — either **only for EA trades** or **account-wide**, depending on the option.

#### 3) Pause behavior after a stop

If a Hard Stop triggers, you can choose whether the EA should **stay paused** afterward (so it doesn’t jump right back in like nothing happened).

#### 4) Exposure caps across the account

If you run multiple charts/instances, these settings help prevent “death by a thousand trades”:

* limit **max open trades across the account**
* enforce **one entry across all charts at the exact same time** (prevents multiple charts firing together)

#### 5) Swap-Protect

Helps avoid getting slowly “nibbled to death” by negative swap when trades stay open too long (especially relevant for longer holds or recovery situations).
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### Practical guidance

* If you’re new: start with **daily/weekly limits + equity stop**, then add account-wide caps if you run multiple instances.
* If you run Recovery: Account Protection becomes even more important (Recovery can increase exposure when markets trend hard).
* Treat “account-wide” options as the *big red button*: powerful, but set thoughtfully.
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[Daily Loss Limit %](/smartchoise-manual/options/account-protection/daily-loss-limit.md)
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[Weekly Loss Limit %](/smartchoise-manual/options/account-protection/weekly-loss-limit.md)
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[Hard Stop % Only EA Trades](/smartchoise-manual/options/account-protection/hard-stop-only-ea-trades.md)
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[Pause EA after Hard Stop](/smartchoise-manual/options/account-protection/pause-ea-after-hard-stop.md)
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[Swap-Protect](/smartchoise-manual/options/account-protection/swap-protect.md)
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[One entry across all charts at the exact same time](/smartchoise-manual/options/account-protection/one-entry-across-all-charts-at-the-exact-same-time.md)
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[Reference for daily limit](/smartchoise-manual/options/account-protection/reference-for-daily-limit.md)
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[Reference for weekly limit](/smartchoise-manual/options/account-protection/reference-for-weekly-limit.md)
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[Hard stop % account wide](/smartchoise-manual/options/account-protection/hard-stop-account-wide.md)
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[Equity Stop](/smartchoise-manual/options/account-protection/equity-stop.md)
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[Max Open Trades across account](/smartchoise-manual/options/account-protection/max-open-trades-across-account.md)
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