Risk Watch

Monitor your live trading exposure and worst-case risk with a clear, real-time risk dashboard built directly inside cTrader.

Risk Watch is a lightweight risk monitoring plugin designed to help traders understand their current exposure and potential downside at a glance.

Instead of manually calculating risk across multiple open positions, Risk Watch automatically analyses your account and presents the most important risk metrics in a clear dashboard. It highlights overall exposure, worst-case loss if stop losses are triggered, floating profit or loss and symbol-level concentration so you can quickly see how much of your account is at risk.

The dashboard refreshes automatically, giving you a continuously updated view of your trading risk while positions are open.

Key Features

Live risk monitoring

Risk Watch continuously analyses your open positions to show your current exposure in real time.

The dashboard automatically updates to display:

• Total net exposure across all symbols
• Floating profit and loss
• Worst-case loss based on stop losses
• Current drawdown from balance

This helps you quickly understand how your open positions are impacting your account.

Worst-case risk calculation

The plugin calculates the maximum potential loss if all stop losses are hit, providing a realistic view of downside risk.

This allows traders to clearly see:

• Total monetary risk across positions
• Risk as a percentage of account equity
• Whether their account risk level appears safe, normal or elevated

Risk meter

Risk Watch automatically categorises overall account risk based on the percentage of equity currently at risk.

The dashboard displays a simple risk classification such as:

• Safe
• Normal
• Elevated
• High Risk

This provides a quick visual indication of how aggressively your account is currently positioned.

Symbol exposure breakdown

See exactly where your risk is concentrated across markets.

The symbol panel displays:

• Long exposure per symbol
• Short exposure per symbol
• Net position size
• Worst-case risk per symbol
• Risk percentage of equity
• Floating PnL contribution

Symbols are automatically sorted by highest risk so you can quickly identify the positions that matter most.

Account and strategy views

Risk Watch can analyse risk across your entire account or focus only on specific trading systems.

Choose between:

• Account view – includes all open positions
• Strategy view – shows only labelled positions

This makes it easier to monitor the risk of individual strategies running within the same account.

Clean and lightweight interface

Risk Watch runs directly inside cTrader with a clean dashboard designed for quick interpretation.

Features include:

• Dark and Light themes
• Automatic refresh every few seconds
• Colour-coded risk levels and exposure indicators

The result is a clear overview of your live risk without needing external tools or spreadsheets.

Built for traders who want better risk visibility

Risk Watch is ideal for traders who want a quick understanding of how much of their account is currently exposed.

It is useful for:

• Manual traders managing multiple open positions
• Algorithmic traders running several strategies simultaneously
• Signal providers monitoring exposure across a portfolio
• Traders who want a clearer view of worst-case account risk

Works alongside other AWTrades tools:

Risk Watch forms part of the wider AWTrades analytics toolkit designed to help traders understand both performance and risk more clearly.

You can combine it with:

• PnL Studio – a visual performance dashboard that transforms your trade history into a calendar-based overview for analysing trading days and performance patterns.
• Trade Analytics – an advanced analytics dashboard focused on the statistical quality and robustness of your trading edge.

Together the tools create a more complete trading workflow:

PnL Studio – visual performance review
Risk Watch – live exposure and risk monitoring
Trade Analytics – edge quality and robustness analysis

Simple to use

Once installed, open the Risk Watch tab inside cTrader to instantly view your current exposure and account risk.

No external software, exports or configuration required.