Can a trading bot blow my account?

The honest starting point is that automation removes the human brake. A discretionary trader who has lost three trades in a row usually hesitates; a bot does not, and if the sizing is wrong that lack of hesitation is precisely the problem.

The most common destruction mechanism in retail products is martingale or grid recovery — increasing size after losses so that one win recovers the sequence. This produces excellent results for months and then a single vertical drop to zero when the sequence runs longer than the account can fund. Any product that avoids discussing its stop loss is worth this specific suspicion.

The second is correlated exposure. Three positions each risking 1% look like 3% only if they are independent; several strategies firing in the same direction on the same symbol is one 3% bet resolved by one event. See bot opening too many trades.

What a safer design looks like

A fixed percentage risk that never increases after a loss, a server-side stop on every position, a hard cap on concurrent positions, and a daily loss lockdown that halts trading rather than trading through. Each of these is a refusal to do something, which is why they rarely appear in marketing.

None of that makes an account safe. Our own validated maximum drawdown is roughly 20% across two separate periods, which is a large number in absolute terms and the honest one. Read the risk disclosure before deciding what you can tolerate.