How to Choose a Risk Profile

Every DONKOFX automation offers one or more risk profiles. A profile is a named set of starting values for that automation's settings: how much a trade risks, how many trades it can take, how far a recovery series can go, and so on. Choosing a profile fills those settings in. You can change any of them before you start.

Profiles exist so that a beginner does not have to understand twenty settings before a first run, and so that experienced users have a sensible baseline. They do not replace the numbers on the start screen. Names like CONSERVATIVE or SURGE describe the relative pace within one automation; the cash figures shown for your account are what tell you the real risk.

Copy automations offer three profiles, and they differ only in risk per signal and the daily loss cap. Every other setting, such as waiting for the entry zone or moving to breakeven after the first target, is the same.

On a $2,000 account, CONSERVATIVE risks about $10 per signal and a full losing day of 3 signals costs about $30. STANDARD risks about $20 per signal, and a losing day about $60. AGGRESSIVE risks about $40 per signal, and a losing day of 4 signals costs about $160, or 8% of the account.

Now think about a bad week. An expert who loses three days out of five on AGGRESSIVE can cost close to a quarter of the account in that week, which then needs a gain of about a third to recover. On CONSERVATIVE the same week costs a few percent. The expert is the same; the experience is completely different.

CANDLE KING and FAIRVALUE SNIPER offer SHADOW, STANDARD and SURGE. TURTLE PROTOCOL offers STANDARD and SURGE. Here the profiles change how the trade is managed and how active the bot is, as well as its size.

Every IRONVAULT profile confirms the trend on four-hour candles and starts with the same maximum basket risk. The worst case of a basket is always that amount, so the profile changes how often baskets happen and how they are laid out, not what one bad basket can cost.

Digit profiles change the stake, the recovery series and the session length. PHANTOM ODD shows the full range:

The right way to choose a profile is to start from two cash figures: the most you are prepared to lose in one bad session, and in one bad month. Then look at what each profile risks on your account. For copy and strategy bots, multiply the risk per trade by a realistic losing streak, such as five losses in a row. For digit bots, look at the full series cost and the contracts per session. For IRONVAULT, look at the maximum basket risk and the baskets per day.

Pick the profile whose bad session fits inside your session figure and whose bad week would not break your monthly figure. If you are unsure between two, choose the calmer one. You can always step up later; recovering from a profile that was too large is much harder.

Avoid choosing a profile because it promises to reach a profit goal faster. A larger profile reaches its losses faster too.

Small accounts face a practical problem: brokers have minimum trade sizes. On Deriv the smallest digit stake DONKOFX uses is $0.35. On MT5 and cTrader the smallest gold or forex lot is usually 0.01. If your chosen risk is smaller than what the minimum would lose at the stop, the trade cannot be sized correctly.

DONKOFX does not quietly raise your risk to make the trade fit. A grid basket whose minimum lot would risk more than your basket risk is refused with a message, and a digit series that cannot fit your loss limit will not start. The right response may be a flat profile, fewer recovery steps, a wider risk budget you knowingly accept, a cent account where your broker offers one, demo trading, or simply a different automation.

Amara has $500 on a demo account and wants to see how copy trading behaves. She is not sure how she will feel about losing days, so she picks CONSERVATIVE. Each signal risks about $2.50, and a full losing day costs about $7.50. After a month she knows how the expert trades and what a bad week feels like, and nothing she learned cost her real money.

Daniel has $3,000 on a real MT5 account and runs CANDLE KING on gold. He decides a bad session may cost him $30 and a bad month $150. He uses STANDARD but sets the risk per trade to 0.5%, so five losses in a row cost about $75, which fits. SURGE on five-minute charts would trade more often than he can review, so he stays on STANDARD.

Lina wants to try a digit bot with $20. A RAMPAGE series alone could cost most of that, so she picks WHISPER: a flat $0.35 stake and ten contracts per session. Her worst session is a few dollars, so she can learn how the bot behaves over many sessions without a single series using up her budget.

Profiles are chosen per automation, but risk adds up per account. Two copy automations on STANDARD and a strategy bot on STANDARD can together have more than 3% of the account at risk at one moment. Set the account exposure ceiling in Settings, Risk so that the combined open risk has a limit, and pick calmer profiles when you run several paths at once.