When a lock fires — and when it cannot see

What locking actually does, and what the exclamation mark means.

While an account is locked

  • New signals for that account are refused, and the refusal is written into the strategy's event log with the lock as its reason.
  • Closing is not blocked. You can always get flat.
  • Optionally, anything that does get opened while locked is closed again automatically.

The exclamation mark on Account lock

A limit can only be enforced if Tradeus can see the account. When a lock is armed but its broker is not connected, the protection is off and nothing on the screen would otherwise say so — the limits still look set.

Armed but not protected
That is what the ! beside Account lock means, and the page names how many accounts are in that state. The fix is on Broker setup: reconnect the broker. Until then, treat those accounts as unprotected.

Also in Risk and protection