Your position was closed without you doing anything in Tradovate

What is causing it

An automatic risk action: liquidation for insufficient overnight margin, or a breach of a daily loss limit or drawdown rule on a funded or evaluation account.

Why this happens

Futures accounts sit behind automated risk systems that act without asking. The two most common triggers are the overnight margin requirement, which rises as the session ends, and the rule sets attached to funded and evaluation accounts.

Funded account rules are contractual rather than technical. The platform is enforcing an agreement, which is why nothing in the software settings will let you override it.

The fix, step by step

1. Check the account's order and trade history to find the closing order and the time it was placed, which will usually identify what triggered it.
2. If it happened near the session close, the likely cause is insufficient funds for the higher overnight margin requirement.
3. If the account is funded or under evaluation, check the firm's daily loss limit, trailing drawdown and any prohibited trading windows, because breaching any of them can flatten and lock the account automatically.
4. Check any platform-side risk settings on the account, such as a daily loss limit you or your firm configured.
5. Contact your broker or funding firm to confirm the reason, since only they can see which rule fired.
6. Do not simply re-enter the position until you know what triggered the close, or the same thing will happen again.

How to confirm it is fixed

You can point to the specific rule or requirement that fired, and you know the threshold you must stay inside to avoid it again.

Stopping it happening again

Write down your account's loss limit, drawdown rule and overnight margin, and size positions so that normal volatility cannot reach any of them.