Risk controls
What stands between a signal arriving and an order leaving, and what you can reach for when you want something to stop. All of it is per account, and it applies the same whether the signal came from your strategy or a published one.
The defaults are the first control
Most of Quanify's safety is in what it refuses to assume.
- A new strategy is created powered off.
- Every account you add to a trader lands disabled.
- Every follower you add in Copy Trader lands disabled.
- A trader card will not report itself armed until the engine has confirmed the routing.
You have to make an affirmative decision, per account, before anything can trade. Nothing in the product arms itself as a side effect of being configured.
Allow 2+ entries
A per-strategy switch, off by default. While it is off, a signal that would grow a position you already hold in the same direction is refused. Scaling out is always allowed, and so is a flip.
Leave it off unless the strategy is deliberately designed to build into a position. It is the single most effective guard against a noisy signal source quietly tripling your size.
Fixed contract size
Setting a contract size on a strategy overrides whatever the alert asks for. If your signal source occasionally emits a size you did not intend, this is how you cap it: the strategy trades exactly N contracts per signal, per account, before the account's multiplier is applied.
Muting
Muting a sub-account makes it refuse every signal, immediately, from every strategy pointed at it. It is the fastest way to take one account out of the line of fire while everything else keeps running.
Muting does not unlink anything. Your traders, your multipliers and your routing are exactly as you left them, and unmuting picks up from there. The reason for a mute is always shown on the account row: you set it, Copy Trader set it while armed, or an administrator paused the account.
Powering off
Powering a trader off clears its routing at the engine. Powering a strategy off makes it ignore signals wherever it is routed. Pause All on Control Center powers down every trader at once.
All three stop new orders. None of them closes anything.
Flatten
Flatten closes open positions now, on one position, one sub-account, or everything at once. It is the only control in Quanify that changes what you are holding, and it only ever runs because you pressed it.
Quanify never flattens on your behalf. Not when a strategy is deleted, not when a broker connection drops, not when a subscription lapses, not when you power everything off, not when the engine restarts. Stopping new orders and closing existing ones are different decisions and the second one stays yours, every time.
The practical version: if you want to be flat, press flatten, and then look at your broker to confirm you are.
The ownership gate
A fill only ever clones to accounts you own. The engine verifies that on every fan-out rather than trusting a decision made when the group was configured, so a mirrored fill cannot cross an ownership boundary even if something upstream is wrong.
This is not a setting. There is nothing to enable and nothing you can turn off.
A fill is acted on once
If the same fill is reported more than once, it still produces one set of orders. Duplicate delivery of a signal or a fill does not become duplicate size on your accounts.
Standing the desk down
Three levels, in increasing order of severity.
| You want to… | Do this | Positions |
|---|---|---|
| Take one account out | Mute the sub-account | Untouched |
| Stop one strategy | Power its trader off, or disable the strategy | Untouched |
| Stop everything | Pause All on Control Center | Untouched |
| Be flat | Flatten, then confirm at your broker | Closed |
What Quanify will not do
- It will not move funds. There is no Quanify brokerage and no transfer.
- It will not place an order on an account you have not explicitly routed and powered on.
- It will not close a position because something failed elsewhere.
- It will not re-arm something you turned off.
Coming to Settings
The Settings tab shows several risk cards — max daily loss, daily profit target, consecutive-loss cooldown, session hours, flatten at session end — marked Coming soon. They are dimmed because they are not wired up yet. Do not build a plan around them until the badge is gone. Everything on this page is live today.