You can tell TTMT how much money a trade may lose, as a plain number in your account's currency, and the engine works out the lot size from each signal's stop loss (the price where the trade closes at a loss). The mode is called Fixed Risk, and it sits beside the two you already had: a fixed lot and a percentage of balance.
The percentage setting changed as well. It accepts values above 10, and saving one asks you to type the number first.
Three ways to say how much
| Mode | You set | Stays the same on every trade | Moves from signal to signal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fixed Lots | A lot size, 0.01 to 100 (default 0.10) | The lot | The money at risk, which follows the stop distance |
| % of Balance | A share of your balance, 0.1% to 100% | The share of balance a stop-out costs | The lot, and the money figure as your balance changes |
| Fixed Risk | An amount of money, 1 to 100,000 | The money a stop-out costs | The lot |
All three are on the Position Sizing page and in a config profile, and a per-asset override can give one asset class a different mode from the rest of the account. Whichever you choose, the number is the total for the trade. TTMT splits it across your entry layers (the staged orders one trade is divided into) and does not open that size once per layer.
What "risk 50" means when the stop keeps moving
Take a dollar account with Fixed Risk set to 50, and two EUR/USD signals from the same channel.
The first has its stop 100 pips from entry (a pip is the standard small unit of price movement, 0.0001 on EUR/USD). The engine sizes it to about 0.05 lots. The second has a 25-pip stop and sizes to about 0.20 lots. Four times the volume, and a stop-out on either costs about 50 dollars.
Run those two signals at a fixed 0.10 lots and the first risks about 100 dollars and the second about 25. One setting, two different risks. The lot size calculator runs that arithmetic for you, and what lot size is and why the math goes wrong at 3am explains it.
I keep writing "about" because lots come in broker-sized steps, and the engine never rounds up into more risk than you asked for. If the smallest lot your broker allows would risk meaningfully more than your amount, the trade is rejected and you get a notification. No orders are placed. A Fixed Risk account with no saved amount is treated the same way: the trade is skipped, with no guessed number standing in.
The amount is in your account's own currency. On a euro account, 200 means 200 euros. If one signal goes to several of your accounts, each risks the amount in its own currency.
In % of Balance, a signal the parser marks as high risk sizes the trade up. In Fixed Risk it does not: nothing a channel sends can raise the amount you set. The loss-streak reduction still applies, because it only ever sizes down.
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When each mode fits
Fixed Lots is the simplest to reason about. The volume never changes, so the money at risk is whatever the next stop distance makes it. It fits a trader who thinks in lots and accepts that. One trap: typing 2 into Fixed Lots means 2.00 lots. If you meant 2% of your balance, that is a different mode.
% of Balance ties risk to the size of the account. After a losing week the same percentage is a smaller amount of money, and after a winning one it is larger. The earlier post on percentage sizing goes through how the volume is solved.
Fixed Risk is for a rule written in money. A percentage only matches "never more than 200 on one idea" on the day you set it. The amount does not shrink after a losing week or grow after a winning one. That cuts both ways: a fixed amount becomes a larger share of a falling balance. The Position Sizing page warns you when the amount is more than 10% of your live balance. It is a warning, and it does not block the save.
Under all three sits a platform ceiling of 20 lots on a single trade. It is a flat number that does not scale to your balance, so a lot far too large for a small account can sit well under it.
Percentages above 10, with a confirmation
% of Balance used to stop at 10. The range is now 0.1% to 100%, on the account, in a config profile, and in a per-asset override.
Any save that raises your risk above 10% opens a dialog and asks you to type the number. Lowering the value, or saving without changing it, never asks. The dialog says what the figure means in plain terms: a trade that hits its stop will lose about that share of your balance, and several open trades can each lose that much. It also says that a signal its channel marks as higher risk can be sized at up to twice the amount, and that broker credit counted as capital can double it again.
A high percentage can empty an account quickly. At 20%, five open trades stopping out together is the whole balance, before either multiplier.
Why a confirmation and not a hard cap
A trader asked for more than 10, and the number is theirs to choose. Nothing in this post is a suggestion about what yours should be.
What a ceiling of 10 did well was catch typos. The confirmation does the same job: typing 50 where you meant 5 is the mistake, and typing it again into a box that asks for exactly that number is hard to do by accident. I considered asking on every save and decided against it, because a dialog you see every time becomes a dialog you click through. A single confirm button lost for the same reason.
Start a free 7-day trial at telegramtometatrader.com, or read the full sizing rules in the Order Setup docs and how to manage risk when copying trading signals.
