# Why does my bot keep trading after losses?

Strategies & bots · Where: Bots › the bot’s page › Settings · Updated 2026-10-20

A bot follows the rules you tested, and rules with an edge still have losing runs, so several losses in a row are expected, not a fault. Stopping after each loss would turn it into an untested strategy. It halts only at a limit you choose: the daily loss limit pauses it until you resume it, and the maximum drawdown stops it.

## Step by step

1. **Drawdown** In Strategy › Results: the deepest fall the test saw. A longer losing run is still possible, because the past is one sample of what can happen.
2. **Daily loss limit** On the bot’s page under Settings. When a day’s losses reach it the bot pauses and stays paused until you press Resume. 0 turns it off.
3. **Max drawdown (auto-stop)** On the bot’s page under Settings. When the bot falls this far below its highest point it stops, and its page says why.

## Good to know

- Each limit is a choice, not a fix. A limit the backtest never saw makes the bot behave differently from its test, so compare the two before relying on either.
- A losing run is easier to sit through when you knew its likely length before you started. The drawdown guide shows the arithmetic.

Web page: https://buildtrade.app/help/why-bot-keeps-trading-after-losses/