Paper — every trading figure here (positions, orders, P&L, equity, returns) is simulated on an Alpaca paper account. No real capital is at risk, and no order is ever placed with your money. Running costs shown under ops, such as LLM spend, are real.

Going deeper

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How Your Capital Is Protected

Survival first, returns second. Here are the safeguards that run quietly in the background on every trade.

The core idea: many small wins

SentinelHub is built to win a little, often — not to bet big and hope. Every position is kept small on purpose, so that no single trade can do real damage to the account. The edge comes from doing the disciplined thing hundreds of times, not from being right on one dramatic call.

The safeguards on every trade

  • ·A stop on every position — the moment a trade opens, it already has a line in the sand where it will cut the loss. There is no such thing as an unprotected position.
  • ·A small slice per trade — only a tiny fraction of the account is ever put at risk on any one trade, so a loss is always survivable.
  • ·A cap on open positions — only a handful of trades can run at the same time, so the account is never spread dangerously thin.
  • ·A ceiling on total risk — even across all open positions at once, the combined amount that could be lost is held under a strict limit.
  • ·An automatic slow-down— if the account hits a rough patch, the system steps its risk down on its own: first smaller positions, then a pause, then a full stop if things keep going wrong. A bad stretch can't spiral.

The doctrine

The rule that never bends: the system never bets the account. No single trade, and no run of trades, is allowed to put your capital in serious danger. If a trade would break a safety limit, it simply doesn't happen — capital preservation always outranks any one opportunity.

You stay in control of the judgement calls

The automatic safeguards run without you. But when it comes to discretionary decisions — like taking profit on a winner early — you stay in the loop. The Exit Advisor can flag a position and explain its thinking, but it never closes a trade for you. A human makes that call.

Two parts, deliberately separate

SentinelHub is split into two pieces. A disciplined trading engineis the only part that ever places a trade — it's kept simple and predictable so the part that touches money is as safe as possible. The intelligence layer you see in this app reads, reasons, and explains, but never places an order itself. Keeping them apart is itself a safety measure.

You can watch these limits in real time on your Portfolios page, which shows how close you are to each safety limit at a glance.