What is the Daily Loss Cooldown and how does it protect my account?

Modified on Fri, 28 Aug at 2:28 AM

The Daily Loss Cooldown is a safety net included with every Pivex Membership account. If you lose 3% in a single day during your first few days, your account is placed on a short cooldown instead of running on toward the 4% daily limit that would end your challenge.

In other words: it catches you one step before the drop. Instead of losing the account, you lose twelve hours.

How it compares to the daily drawdown limit

	Daily Loss Cooldown	Daily drawdown limit
Triggers at	3% loss in a day	4% loss in a day
What happens	Your account pauses for 12 hours	Your challenge ends
Can you carry on?	Yes — your progress is intact	No — the account is closed

That single percentage point is the difference between a break and a breach.

When it applies

During your first 3 calendar days — the window where accounts are most often lost. These are calendar days from activation, so they run whether or not you place a trade.
Once per account. It is a one-time safety net, not a repeatable pause.
The cooldown lasts 12 hours.
It is included with all Pivex Membership accounts, at every account size.

It works automatically. There is nothing to buy and nothing to switch on — and if you never reach a 3% daily loss, you will never notice it.

What happens when it triggers

Two things happen straight away:

Your open positions are closed. This stops the loss deepening while you are away from the screen, and locks the day in at roughly 3% rather than letting it run to 4%.
Trading pauses for 12 hours. Your account stays open and you keep full access to your dashboard throughout.

When the cooldown lifts, your account is active again exactly as you left it — same balance, same objectives, same progress toward the profit target. Nothing is reset.

Your challenge itself is not frozen: the calendar keeps running in the background during the pause. Since there is no time limit for completing the challenge, this simply means the twelve hours pass like any other.

Why we built it

Most challenges are not lost to a bad strategy. They are lost to a bad hour. A trade goes against you, you size up to win it back, and the day gets away from you — and that pattern shows up most often in the first few days on a new account, before you have found your rhythm.

The Daily Loss Cooldown puts twelve hours between you and that decision. Long enough to step away, review what happened, and come back to an account that is still yours.

Questions about your account and the cooldown? Contact us at support@pivex.com or through Live Chat — we are happy to walk you through where you stand.