The short answer
The Dynamic Risk Shield is a protective floor under your account that moves up as you make profit. Once your gains reach a set threshold, the Shield locks at your starting balance. From that point your downside floor stops moving and sits at your initial deposit level, so a losing run cannot wipe out the progress you have already banked.
What the Dynamic Risk Shield is
Every UZO account has a maximum drawdown level: a floor your equity is not allowed to fall below. The Dynamic Risk Shield is the logic that decides where that floor sits and when it moves.
Instead of leaving the floor fixed at the worst possible level for your whole evaluation, the Shield raises it as you build profit, then secures it at a safe point. It exists to reward progress: the further you climb, the harder it becomes to lose everything you have earned.
Trailing up with your equity
In its first phase, the Shield trails your equity upward. As your account hits new highs, the protective floor follows behind it at a set distance, shown on your dashboard.
The key detail is that the floor only ever moves in one direction: up. When your equity rises to a new peak, the floor rises with it. When your equity dips, the floor stays put at the highest level it has reached. It never trails back down. This is why early gains matter so much: each new high quietly tightens your safety net.
The lock at starting balance
The Shield does not trail forever. Once your profit reaches a set threshold, the floor locks at your starting balance and stays there for the rest of the account's life.
After the lock, your downside floor no longer moves with your equity. It sits at your initial deposit level. This is the moment your evaluation progress becomes durable: even a deep drawdown from that point cannot take your account below where it began.
What triggers the lock
The Shield locks once your profit crosses a defined threshold. The exact threshold and your live floor are always shown on your dashboard, so you never have to guess where your protection currently sits. Check your account panel for the real-time numbers that apply to your plan.
How it differs from a plain trailing drawdown
A plain trailing maximum drawdown follows your equity up but keeps trailing indefinitely. That can feel punishing: you make profit, give a little back, and the floor that was trailing close behind can stop you out even though you are still up overall.
The Dynamic Risk Shield behaves differently in its second phase. It trails up like a trailing drawdown at first, but once you have proven progress it converts to a fixed floor at your starting balance. You get the upside of a trailing floor early on and the breathing room of a static floor once you are established.
Mechanic | How the floor behaves |
Plain trailing drawdown | Trails your equity up the entire time, never stops |
Static drawdown | Fixed in one place from day one, never moves |
Dynamic Risk Shield | Trails up early, then locks at your starting balance once profit hits the threshold |
Why it protects you
The Shield is built to let you bank progress and guard against giving back gains. Early on, every new high raises your floor and reduces how much you can lose. Later, the lock guarantees that your hard-won progress cannot be erased by a single bad session.
The payoff
Once the Shield locks, your starting balance is safe ground. You can keep trading toward your reward knowing the floor under you will not fall, no matter how the market moves.
Worth remembering: the Dynamic Risk Shield governs your maximum drawdown floor. Your daily drawdown limit (which resets at 00:00 UTC) is a separate rule and still applies. Both limits, and your live floor, are always visible on your dashboard.
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