Race Guardian — your safety net

What is Race Guardian?

Race Guardian is HRT's built-in safety system — a set of 19 rules that monitor your trading activity in real time and intervene when your behaviour patterns indicate that you may be trading outside the parameters you set for yourself.

It is not a nanny. It is a professional-grade protection layer designed for people who take trading seriously enough to want structured safeguards against the most common and costly trading mistakes: overtrading, tilt, liability overshoot, and ignoring daily loss limits.

Race Guardian operates on the risk limits you configure in Settings → Risk Limits. It enforces your own rules back at you.

Warnings vs Blocks

Race Guardian rules fall into two categories:

Warnings are informational interventions. They appear as a prominent notification in the trading terminal and explain why the system has flagged your activity. You can read the warning and choose to override it — you remain in control. Warnings are designed for situations where something looks concerning but may have a legitimate explanation.

Blocks are enforced stops. They prevent order submission until the blocking condition is resolved. Blocks are reserved for the most serious situations: your daily loss cap has been reached, your maximum liability has been hit, or a mandatory cool-down pause is active. Blocks cannot be overridden — this is by design.

If you find a Block is interrupting legitimate trading, review and adjust the relevant limit in `Settings → Risk Limits`. But do this thoughtfully — Race Guardian's blocks exist to protect against the moment when your judgement may be most impaired.

Examples of Race Guardian rules

Daily loss cap reached (Block)

When your cumulative realised losses for the day reach the amount you set in Settings → Risk Limits, all order submission is blocked until the following calendar day. The terminal shows your current P&L and the cap you set.

Overtrading warning (Warning)

If you place more than a configurable number of orders within a short window (default: 8 orders in 10 minutes), Race Guardian issues a warning. Overtrading is one of the most reliable indicators of stress-driven trading — the compulsion to act repeatedly is often a sign of chasing, not of genuine market reading.

Tilt detection (Warning → Block)

When Race Guardian detects the behavioural signature of tilt — rapid stake escalation, very short intervals between trades, orders placed within seconds of a loss — it first issues a Warning. If the pattern continues, it activates a mandatory 10-minute pause (Block) during which no orders can be placed.

Liability cap reached (Block)

If your total open lay liability on a single market exceeds the limit you set, additional lay orders are blocked until your liability reduces (either by the race resolving or by closing positions).

Streak protection (Block)

After the number of consecutive losses you have configured, Race Guardian blocks trading and prompts a 10-minute pause. The pause cannot be bypassed. This is the most commonly triggered protection among active users.

Configuring Race Guardian

All Race Guardian limits are configured in Settings → Risk Limits. Each limit has a default value appropriate for a new user, but you should review and personalise them.

If you prefer to disable individual warnings (not blocks), you can do so from the Risk Limits settings. Blocks associated with hard limits (daily loss cap, liability cap) cannot be disabled — only adjusted by changing the limit value.