// the daily loss limit
The daily loss limit is the rule that ends the most funded accounts, and it is also the most avoidable. You do not breach it because you cannot count. You breach it because of the trade you take after you should have stopped. Here is how to actually not do that.
Nobody breaches a daily loss limit on purpose. It happens because a loss lands near the line, and instead of stopping you take one more trade to climb back before the day ends. That trade, taken from behind and often oversized, is what pushes you through the limit. The limit did not fail you; the trade after it did.
Most firms measure the daily loss from your balance or equity at the start of the trading day, and it usually includes open, floating losses, not just closed trades. That detail matters: a position deep in the red can breach you before you have closed anything. Always confirm exactly how your firm measures it. Our daily loss limit guide and breach calculator show the mechanics on real numbers.
EXIT CODE tracks your live equity against your firm's daily limit and locks the session before the breach, on your own cTrader or MetaTrader 5 account. It also blocks the post-loss revenge trade that usually causes the breach in the first place. It is not a strategy and makes no promise about profit. It keeps the account alive on the day you would otherwise have ended it.
Run your next trade through the gatesAll 8 gates free · no card · desktop, with a cTrader or MetaTrader 5 brokerStart freeHow do I stop breaching my daily loss limit?
Set it on a calm day, track your live distance to it before every trade, make the session hard-stop when you reach it, and put a cooling-off after a loss. The breach almost always comes from the revenge trade taken near the line, not from your planned setups.
How is the daily loss limit measured?
Usually from your account balance or equity at the start of the trading day, and it typically includes open, floating losses, not only closed trades, so a position deep in the red can breach you before you close it. Confirm the exact method with your firm.
What is a hard lockout?
A stop that actually prevents the next trade once you hit your limit, rather than a warning you can click past. Relying on willpower to stop is what fails; a lockout removes the decision at the moment you are least able to make it.
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