I'm Halted — What Now?

If you see a HALTED chip in your dashboard header, one of your accounts hit its Risk Limit and TTMT has paused new trading on it to stop the bleeding. This is the safety cap working, not a bug. Below is the fast answer; the full guide — including how to set your limits for your account size — is on Risk Limits & Halts.

INFO

A halt only pauses new signal trades. Your open positions are still protected and still under your control.

What just happened

Your account's combined realized and floating profit-and-loss for the current trading session crossed the loss (or profit) threshold you configured, so TTMT halted it. The halt is per-account: your other connected accounts keep trading normally. If you had close-all enabled, TTMT also closed the open positions on the halted account when it triggered.

What's blocked and what isn't

• Blocked: new signal-driven trades on the halted account.
• Not blocked: your existing open positions. TTMT still manages their stop-loss, take-profit, and breakeven, and you can still close or adjust them manually in MetaTrader or from the dashboard.
• Other accounts: unaffected. Each account halts independently.

See why and when it happened

Open the Risk Limits panel in the dashboard header and the timeline below it to see each halt for the session. You will see two numbers that people often ask about. Realized P&L is your closed-deal total for the session. P&L at Halt also includes open floating P&L at the moment the halt triggered — so the two can differ, and can even have opposite signs, by design.

Resume or Recalibrate?

This is the decision that matters when you are halted.

Resume when you simply want to trade again on the same baseline. It clears the halt and keeps today's running totals, so your limit still measures against the same starting point. If you have already lost a lot today, you may halt again quickly after one more losing trade. That is intended.

Recalibrate when your account's starting point genuinely changed — you deposited or withdrew funds, or the broker adjusted your balance. Recalibrate re-anchors the limit to your new equity without erasing today's P&L. Do not use Recalibrate just to dodge a halt.

Both options live in the resume dialog. For the full walkthrough and for choosing thresholds by account size, read Risk Limits & Halts.

WARNING

Recalibrate is for real balance changes (deposit or withdrawal), not for escaping a halt. Recalibrating to dodge a loss limit defeats the protection you set up.

If you keep halting

Repeated same-day halts usually mean your daily-loss threshold is too tight for your strategy, or a channel is underperforming. Tune your thresholds on the Risk Limits & Halts page, and review channel performance in Performance. Do not raise the limit mid-loss just to keep trading.

Next steps

Read Risk Limits & Halts for the full mechanics, threshold-by-account-size strategy, and the audit timeline. If a signal failed to execute and the account was not halted, work through Trade Execution Issues instead.