If your trades are opening and closing instantly, a risk management limit has already been reached on that account — the risk engine is working as intended.
You might be experiencing this if:
Your trades open and close instantly every time you place them
Orders appear to fill but positions disappear within seconds
You've tried multiple times and every attempt closes right away
Replication looks normal but positions won't stay open on a specific account
There's a pause icon next to an account in the Risk Management panel that you don't recognise
If this is only happening to trades you place manually on a follower account — not to replicated leader trades → the Position Reconciler may be closing them. See Why does the Position Reconciler keep closing my manual trades? instead.
What is happening
When a risk threshold is hit, the risk engine closes any open position and blocks new trades from staying open. Any new trade placed after that point will open and be closed immediately by the risk engine — this can happen so quickly that it looks like the trade never opened at all.
This is not a replication bug or a broker connection issue. It is the risk manager doing exactly what it is configured to do.
How to confirm it
Open the Risk Management panel in Tradecopia and check the status of all parameters on the affected account. Use the icon beside the account as your first diagnostic signal:
Icon | What it means |
Risk management pause icon | Risk limit reached — the risk engine is active and closing trades |
Reconciler breach indicator | |
No icon, toggle off | |
No icon, toggle on | Replication is active — investigate elsewhere |
If the risk management pause icon is visible, this confirms the risk engine has triggered. Check your account P&L for today — and this week if you use weekly limits — against your configured thresholds. If P&L has reached or exceeded a limit, that limit is what is closing your trades.
What to do next
Once you have confirmed a risk limit has been reached, you have two options:
Accept the session is complete for that account
Your risk parameters are working as configured. Your session on that account is done under the current limits.
Adjust your risk parameters before your next session
If your current limits no longer reflect your intent, you can update them in the Risk Management panel.
Note: If a Hard Lock is active on the account, you cannot modify any risk parameters until the lock expires. The lock cannot be removed early — wait for it to expire, then reconfigure before your next session.
Why this gets misread as a connection problem
The open-and-close sequence happens at execution speed. If you did not notice the risk limit being reached earlier in the session — or if it carried over from a prior session — the immediate closes will look like a replication failure or broker connection issue from the outside.
Common signs this is the risk engine rather than a bug:
Trades close the moment they fill, every time
The pattern repeats across multiple attempts
The risk management pause icon is visible in the panel
Your P&L for the day or week is at or beyond a configured threshold
If you have checked the Risk Management panel and confirmed no limit has been triggered but trades are still closing immediately, contact the Tradecopia support team with the details — including which account and broker are affected and what is showing in the Risk Management panel.
Related articles
Why didn't my risk management settings trigger? — if risk management is not firing when it should
Why aren't my risk management parameters being enforced? — if parameters are configured but the enable toggle is off
Why did replication stop automatically on my follower account? — if the reconciler breach indicator is showing instead
Why does the Position Reconciler keep closing trades I placed manually on a follower? — if only manually placed follower trades are closing, not all trades