Pre-Trade Risk Gates: What Runs Before Every Order

Regardless of execution mode — advisory, manual, approve-first or fully automated — every order on Algo AI Trade passes the same fixed set of pre-trade gates first.

The five gates

• Kill switch — an account-wide stop that blocks new orders immediately when triggered, manually or by a risk condition.
• Instrument-class checks — confirms the order matches the instrument types you've allowed for that strategy and broker connection.
• Signal-age limit — rejects a signal that's gone stale between generation and execution, so you never trade on outdated market conditions.
• Max open-positions cap — stops a strategy from stacking more concurrent exposure than you've allowed.
• Daily loss cap — halts new orders for the day once realized losses hit your configured limit.

Why they're not configurable per strategy

Gates that can be loosened under pressure tend to get loosened at exactly the wrong moment. Keeping them fixed platform-wide means a bad day in one strategy can't quietly turn into a bad day across your whole account because a limit got relaxed.