Breakeven & auto breakeven
Move stops to entry by hand or automatically once a trade is up a chosen amount, and what moving a stop to breakeven does not promise.
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Breakeven moves a trade's stop loss to its entry price, so the trade can no longer turn into a loss. You can do it for one account, for a whole group, for everything at once - or automatically, once a trade is up an amount you choose.
The buttons
| Control | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| BE | Dashboard row, or the account card on a phone (with a position open) | Press and hold: moves that account’s stop to its entry price. If it has no stop, one is placed at entry. |
| BE Group | A group leader’s row or card | Press and hold: breakeven for the leader and every follower in the group, each account at its own entry price. |
| BE All | Dashboard toolbar | Breakeven for every account that has an open position. |
On a phone the shield sits on the account card itself, beside Flatten, so you can protect several accounts without opening each one. Its colour is the scope: grey for that account, the group's colour for a group, gold for the leader's own set. Tapping the card anywhere below those buttons still opens the account.
Every account is treated on its own numbers: a follower whose fill was a tick worse than the leader's ends up at its entry, not the leader's. A stop that already sits at or better than entry is left exactly where it is - breakeven never moves a stop backwards.
Auto breakeven
On the Risk Management page, each account has an Auto BE setting. Pick a trigger and the engine does the click for you the moment the trade gets there:
| Mode | Fires when |
|---|---|
| $ | The position is up that many dollars of open profit. |
A points trigger used to be offered and was withdrawn: it worked off the contract's tick size, which isn't on file for every symbol, so on those it would quietly never fire. The dollar trigger fails the other way - if we don't know a contract's dollar-per-point value, nothing moves and nothing is guessed.
Set it on a leader and one trigger protects the whole group: when it fires, the leader and every follower each get their stop moved to their own entry. While a leader's Auto BE is on, its followers show via leader - their own settings pause and resume automatically if the leader turns theirs off.
It fires once per trade. If you add contracts afterwards, the trigger re-arms - the new size is new risk, and your average entry moved with it.
What breakeven does not promise
A stop at entry doesn't guarantee a fill at entry - in a fast market or a gap, a stop can fill a few ticks past its price, and fees are always yours. Breakeven removes the bulk of the risk; it is not a physical floor.
It's also a one-time move, not a lock: you (or the leader you copy) stay in control of the stop afterwards. If the leader drags their stop somewhere else later, followers mirror it as usual - see Brackets, TP/SL & OCO.