Exposure Discipline

Did you stop when you said you would: no trade after your daily loss limit was hit, no more trades than your max. With both limits set, the two daily rates are averaged. Ending below the limit is not a failure. Limbix scores exposure discipline day by day, against limits you set yourself.

How it's calculated#

$$\begin{aligned} \text{stop rate} &= \frac{\text{days with no trade opened after the loss limit was hit}}{\text{trading days}} \times 100 \\ \text{count rate} &= \frac{\text{days at or under your trade cap}}{\text{trading days}} \times 100 \\ \text{Exposure Discipline} &= \operatorname{round}\left(\operatorname{mean}(\text{the rates you have a limit for})\right) \end{aligned}$$

Trading days

Days in the last 30 with at least one trade, grouped in your profile timezone.

Loss limit

Your daily loss limit, in account currency.

Trade cap

Your max trades per day.

For each trading day in the last 30 days, Limbix runs up to two checks.

The stop check (needs a daily loss limit). Limbix walks the day's trades in the order you opened them, adding up net P&L. If you opened a trade when the running total had already reached your loss limit, the day fails. If the limit was only crossed by the day's last trade, the day passes: you couldn't have known when you opened it.

The count check (needs a trade cap). The day passes if you took no more trades than your cap.

Each check becomes a rate across your trading days. The component is the average of the rates you have a limit for, rounded once.

The two checks are averaged, not combined. They measure different things. The stop check is a behaviour test that is hard to fail by accident. The count check depends on the number you typed into a settings field. If that number was never realistic, you'd fail it every day, and the result would say more about the setting than about you. Averaging keeps one mis-set field to half the component.

If you set only one limit, the component is that one rate. It still counts at full weight in the Risk Score. It just can't be the weak part that pulls the whole Risk Score down, because a veto over the whole score needs both checks' worth of evidence. See how the Risk Score composes.

Which limit applies. Limbix resolves one daily loss limit and one trade cap from your limit chain: a prop firm's rule first, then today's check-in, then your account's constraint, then your own default in Settings › NEX.

There is no tolerance or curve inside this component: each day passes or fails against your own number. The exact weights and tolerances are part of Limbix's method version provisional-2026-09.4; they'll be published here once the method is validated.

Worked example#

Your daily loss limit is €500 and your cap is 6 trades. In the last 30 days you traded on 15 days.

• On 2 days you opened another trade after your running P&L had already reached −€500. On one of them, trades of −€300 and −€250 put you at −€550, and you opened a third.
• On 4 days you took more than 6 trades.

Stop rate = 13 ÷ 15 × 100 = 86.7 Count rate = 11 ÷ 15 × 100 = 73.3 Exposure Discipline = (86.7 + 73.3) ÷ 2 = 80

The breakdown card reads: "You kept trading after hitting your daily loss limit on 2 of 15 days. You went over your trade cap on 4 of 15 days."

When it shows "—"#

Exposure is scored against your own limits, never an invented one. With no limit set, it shows "—" and its weight passes to the other components. The card links straight to Set your risk profile.

What's a good exposure discipline score?#

100 means you stopped every time you hit your loss limit and stayed inside your cap every day. The breakdown card colours components with the discipline cutoffs: 85 and above reads as strong, below 50 as breaking.

Exposure Discipline is one of the two lighter components of the Risk Score. Risk Consistency and Loss Containment carry most of the weight.

How to improve it#

1. Set both limits. A daily loss limit and a max trades per day give you two checks, and together they can anchor your Risk Score. See set your risk limits.
2. Set a trade cap you can actually keep. Settings › NEX shows your own recent average and busiest day beside the field. If you're over the cap on nearly every day, the card says so: change the cap, or treat it as the habit to work on. See the NEX settings.
3. Treat the loss limit as the end of the session. The stop check only fails when you open a new trade after the limit. Closing the platform is the fix.
4. Declare today's limits in a pre-trade check-in. A number you commit to that morning outranks your default. See check-ins.

Where you'll see it#

• Discipline & Risk (/discipline): the Exposure control row in What the risk score is made of, with a sentence naming which check you broke and on how many days. See read the risk ring.
• Indirectly wherever the Risk Score and Discipline Score appear.

Frequently asked questions#

Does hitting my daily loss limit lower my score?#

No. Hitting the limit is not scored. What fails the day is opening another trade after your running P&L had already reached it. A trader who loses their limit on the last trade and stops passes. A trader who hits the limit at 10:00 and opens one more trade at 10:05 fails, even if that trade wins.

What is a good max trades per day?#

One that matches how you actually trade when you trade well. Limbix won't suggest a number. Settings › NEX shows your recent average trades per day and your busiest day beside the field, so you can set a cap from your own history. A cap you break on nearly every day measures the setting, not your behaviour.

Is my stand-down line part of Exposure Discipline?#

No. Your stand-down line is counted separately: Limbix shows the trades you took past it. It never feeds the Risk Score, and it never blocks a trade. Exposure Discipline reads only your daily loss limit and your max trades per day.

Can Limbix stop me from trading after my loss limit?#

No. Limbix has read-only access to your trade history and can't place, modify or cancel orders. Exposure Discipline tells you afterwards, in plain numbers, how many days you kept going past your own line. The stopping is yours to do.

Is this the same as the Overtrading mistake?#

They read the same kind of limit but reach separate conclusions. The Overtrading detector flags individual trades beyond your daily cap or well above your normal day. Exposure Discipline scores whole days. Limbix keeps the two systems apart on purpose, so one behaviour is never counted twice in your scores.