Where the losses come from · reviewed 14 March 2026
Risk of Loss
In plain English
- Money planted here can shrink, vanish, or on a violent day leave the account owing more than went into it.
- What is sold is a licence to run a program. A result is not on sale and could not be.
- Long losing runs, code faults, broken connections, price gaps and widening spreads visit good strategies as well as bad ones.
- Nobody at this grove is your adviser, your broker or your fund manager.
- Demo for weeks, then the smallest lot, and never a balance whose loss would reach the rest of your life.
The box is a summary. The lettered sections below are the rule itself, and where the two differ the sections win.
Start here
Read this section even if you read nothing else on the page. Leveraged trading destroys capital routinely and without warning: part of a balance, the whole of a balance, and in a violent market more than the balance, because a gap can jump straight past the price a stop was waiting at. Our organisms are grown against a frame of 1:30 or gentler, which softens the arithmetic and removes none of it. Plant nothing whose loss would reach your rent, your savings or anyone who depends on you.
We are not, and cannot be, your adviser
Nothing written anywhere on this site is financial, investment, legal or tax advice, and nothing here recommends an instrument, a broker or a position. Eabotnica is a software grower: not a broker, not an exchange, not a fund, not a regulated adviser of any description. Advice shaped to your own circumstances is the work of a licensed professional in your own country, and it is worth what it costs.
Where a loss actually comes from
Growers tend to imagine one failure: the strategy stops working. That is the least of it. Below are the causes we have seen do damage, and the shape each takes when it arrives.
| Cause | What it does to an account |
|---|---|
| Weather never met before | Every rule set was grown on markets that have already happened. Confronted with a regime outside its experience, a program has no instinct to fall back on and keeps acting anyway. |
| A fault in the code | Ours has carried bugs before and will again. The next one may surface with a position open, and fixing it afterwards does not undo what it did. |
| The link giving way | Terminals restart for updates, brokers go down, disks fill, laptops doze, home connections drop. Any of those can swallow an instruction, and the swallowed one may be the exit. |
| Execution, not intention | Gaps, thin books, requotes, slippage and a spread three times its usual width all sit between the stop you set and the fill you receive. The fill is what your statement records. |
| Repetition | Doubt is a human feature. A program that has read the market wrongly will read it wrongly again, on the next bar and the one after, long before a person thinks to look. |
| A flattering history | A public page showing years of gains is a record of weather that has blown through. It carries no information about the weather ahead, and we publish none as though it did. |
Four habits that undo a working organism
- Comparing your statement with somebody else’s. Your broker’s spread, commission, swap and fill quality are inside your result and nobody else’s, which is why two accounts running one organism rarely agree.
- Winding the sizing input past what the booklet licenses. Above that figure you are running an organism we never grew, and we can say nothing useful about it.
- Lifting it off the chart halfway down a drawdown. That act converts a loss that was still on paper into one that is settled and final, and it is the single most reliable way we know of for a sound system to cost its grower money. Decide the rule before the drawdown, not during it.
- Planting a second organism on the same balance to dilute the first. Both read the same weather, so they tend to suffer in the same fortnight, and the exposure has doubled rather than spread.
What the licence buys, and what it cannot
A purchase here buys permission to run a compiled program for a fixed term. It does not buy a return, a target, an average, or any expectation about your account whatsoever. Eabotnica holds no money of yours, places no order for you and manages nothing. Each position is opened on your account, under your broker’s terms, on the authority you gave the terminal when you ticked Allow Algo Trading — and the outcome, in either direction, belongs to you alone. Nobody here can see your balance, and nobody here could close a position of yours if you asked us to.
What we ask before you plant
Understand the thing you have licensed and how it behaves. Give it weeks on the demo server of the broker you actually intend to use. Pick a size you could hold through a bad month without flinching. Keep the terminal alive. Obey your broker’s rules and the law of the place you live in. And if any of that reads as more than you want to take on, leave automated trading alone — ours, and everybody else’s.
Read alongside
About Our Figures, which explains why no number on this site is a forecast, and the Planting Terms, which govern the sale itself. If this page is not something you can accept as written, do not buy an organism and do not run one.