Every trade Enki makes must pass 7 non-negotiable risk rules. Here is exactly what those rules are and why they exist.
The most common failure mode for new algorithmic traders isn't a bad strategy. It's inadequate risk management.
A strategy with a 60% win rate can still blow up an account if the 40% of losing trades are large enough. Without hard rules — position limits, stop-losses, daily drawdown caps — a few bad days can erase months of gains.
Enki's Fortress Guard is the answer to this problem. It's a set of seven non-negotiable rules that run before every single order, at every confidence level, for every user. They cannot be overridden on Citizen or Commander. They are always on.
1. Minimum trade size: $5
Enki won't execute a trade smaller than $5. This prevents the overhead of managing dozens of tiny positions.
2. Maximum trade size: $2,000
No single position can exceed $2,000 in value at entry. This caps the damage any single bad trade can do.
3. Maximum 3 trades per day
Overtrading is one of the most common ways algorithmic traders lose money. High trade frequency means more commissions, more slippage, and more opportunities for the algorithm to make mistakes. Three trades per day is the hard cap.
4. Hard stop-loss at -8%
If any position drops 8% below entry price, Enki sells it automatically. No exceptions. This prevents small losses from becoming catastrophic ones.
5. Maximum 25% of portfolio in one asset
Concentration risk kills portfolios. No single stock or cryptocurrency can represent more than 25% of the total portfolio value.
6. Sector concentration cap: 40%
No more than 40% of the stock portfolio can be in one sector. If tech is up and Enki wants to buy five tech stocks, Fortress Guard limits the exposure.
7. Macro event shield
No new positions are opened on days with major economic announcements: FOMC rate decisions, CPI (inflation) reports, and NFP (jobs) reports. These events cause extreme volatility that makes normal signal readings unreliable.
**PDT rule enforcement:** Accounts under $25,000 are limited to 3 day trades in a 5-day rolling window under FINRA's Pattern Day Trader rule. Enki tracks this automatically and won't exceed it.
**Earnings calendar guard:** Enki avoids buying positions within 2 days of a company's earnings announcement, eliminating the most common source of volatility traps.
**3 consecutive loss brake:** Three losing trades in a row triggers a mandatory pause for human review before the guardian resumes.
**Crypto treasury cap:** Cryptocurrency is hard-capped at 35% of total portfolio value.
Risk management rules are only useful if they're always on. A rule you can override is a rule you'll override at exactly the wrong moment — when fear or greed is highest.
The Fortress Guard runs before every order. It doesn't have emotions. It doesn't make exceptions. That consistency is the point.
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