Alerts are not enough for unattended accounts
Telegram alerts work when you are at a desk. They fail when a strategy breaks at 3am on a Saturday, when you are on a flight, or when the drift-triggering condition is a slow bleed that looks innocuous individually. Prop firm accounts with daily drawdown limits compound the problem: a single bad 24-hour run from a drifting EA can blow the account before you read the notification.
Auto-halt closes the loop. When the drift threshold is crossed, Algo Studio pushes a governance action to the monitor EA running inside your MetaTrader 5 terminal. On the next market tick, the EA stops opening new trades. No human in the loop required.
What auto-halt does not touch
Open positions are preserved. Auto-halt is a stop-entry signal, not a close-all. This is intentional — forcing market exits during news spikes or off-hours liquidity vacuums causes more damage than the drift itself.
You decide whether to close positions manually, trail them with a tighter stop, or let the existing exit logic run. The EA will not open new entries until you re-enable it from the dashboard.
Per-strategy, opt-in, reversible
Auto-halt is off by default and configured per strategy. Some traders want it on for prop firm accounts where the daily drawdown rule is the real risk. Others want alerts only for personal accounts where they prefer a discretionary decision. Both are valid; the system supports both.
Every auto-halt event is logged as a governance action, signed into the same proof chain as trades. The full history of start/halt/resume events is auditable.