Bot is opening too many trades at once

Causes, most likely first

1. No concurrent-position cap is configured

Without an explicit limit, the only thing stopping the next position is available margin — which means the system takes the largest exposure the broker will still permit, at exactly the moment that is least advisable. Set a hard cap.

2. Multiple strategies are firing on the same setup

Distinct-sounding strategies frequently identify the same conditions. If each opens its own position, three individually reasonable 1% risks become a single 3% bet on one idea. A tournament that executes only the highest-scoring signal prevents this by design.

3. No cooldown between trades on the same symbol

Without one, a setup that persists across several scans generates a new entry each time. A per-symbol cooldown forces a gap and is one of the cheapest protections available.

4. Multiple terminals or copies are running

Two instances of the same bot on the same account will each trade independently and neither will know about the other. On a VPS this is easy to do accidentally after a reconnect. Check the Trade tab for duplicate entries and confirm only one terminal is logged in.

Why this happens

This is the most dangerous failure mode on this page, because nothing errors. Every individual trade is valid, correctly sized and within its own risk limit, and the aggregate is far outside anything intended.

We measured it in our own live results. Same-strategy stacking affected three of ten trades in one month and carried roughly half the printed profit — profitable that time, and unmistakably a risk-management failure rather than a feature.

The fix is structural rather than a setting: one signal per scan, a cap on concurrent positions, and a cooldown per symbol. Our engine enforces all three, and the cap is enforced rather than advisory.