Risk management best practices for automated trading
Automating a strategy doesn't remove the risk. It removes your hand from the trigger, which means whatever risk rules you had in your head need to live in the command instead. Autoview places exactly what the command says, at the size and stop it's told, with no judgment layered on top. That's the whole point of automation, and it's also why a sloppy command is a sloppy trade, just faster.
Autoview doesn't manage risk. Your command does.
This is worth stating plainly, because people sometimes assume the platform is doing something protective in the background. It isn't. Autoview reads a symbol, a side, a size, and whatever stop or target you attached, and sends exactly that. If the command has no stop, none gets placed. If the size is too large for the account, it trades too large. The risk management is whatever you wrote into the alert, nothing more and nothing less.
That puts the actual practice back where it belongs: a consistent plan for how much you risk per trade, applied the same way every time an alert fires. A few things make that plan hold up once it's automated rather than manual.
Size the position before you worry about anything else
Position size decides how much a single bad trade can cost you, and it's usually the first control worth getting right. Autoview's quantity parameter can be set as a percentage of your account balance rather than a fixed number, so the same command scales automatically as your balance changes. Keeping that percentage small on any individual trade, rather than sizing for a best case, is the single biggest lever most traders have. The exact parameter and its accepted values are on the command reference.
Leverage compounds this. A larger position moves the same dollar amount faster in both directions, so a size that felt reasonable unlevered can be a very different bet once leverage is applied. If you use leverage at all, size around the leveraged exposure, not the margin you put up.
Attach a stop to the command, not to your memory
A stop-loss you plan to add manually after the trade fires is a stop-loss that depends on you being at your screen, which defeats the reason you automated in the first place. Autoview supports stop parameters as part of the same command that opens the trade, either as a distance from your fill or as a fixed price, along with a take-profit on the other side. Both are documented on the command reference, and both travel with the order from the moment it opens.
A trailing stop is worth knowing about for the same reason: it follows the market in your favor rather than sitting at one fixed level, which matters for a strategy meant to run without you watching every candle. Whether a given exchange supports it varies, so check the command reference and that exchange's own guide before assuming it's available.
One trade at a time, sized against the account, not the plan in your head
A percentage-based quantity is measured against your account balance when you're opening a position, not against some target you're mentally building toward. If your plan calls for growing into a larger position over several alerts, work out the size you actually want at each step and send that number, rather than assuming the percentages will stack the way they would on paper. The command reference covers exactly how sizing behaves on opens versus closes.
Diversifying across uncorrelated symbols, and capping how many positions can be open across a strategy at once, are plan-level decisions Autoview doesn't make for you either. They belong in whatever generates your alerts, encoded the same way your entries are.
Prove the plan before you fund it
None of the above is worth anything if the command doesn't actually do what you think it does. Add the dry-run flag to a command and Autoview parses it, computes the size and stops it would have used, and reports that back without sending an order. Read the output. Does the size match your risk plan? Does the stop sit where you expected? Only once that checks out should you drop the flag and let it trade for real. What is Autoview walks through the dry-run step in the context of a first trade end to end.
A note on what this page is and isn't. This is general risk-management practice, not investment advice, and Autoview doesn't evaluate or guarantee the outcome of any sizing or stop-loss approach you choose. It executes what the command tells it to, precisely and the same way every time. The judgment about how much to risk stays yours. See our disclosures.