Official integrationDhan kill switch and daily loss limits, without handing over your account
Dhan gives you a stop-loss on a trade. It does not give you a stop-loss on your day. LossGuardian connects to your Dhan account through an official integration, watches your realised and unrealised P&L in real time, and stops you the moment you hit the limit you set.
Read-only. LossGuardian cannot place, modify or cancel an order in your Dhan account. It warns you, and you act. You log in on Dhan’s own screen, and we never see or store your password.
How LossGuardian connects to Dhan
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Pick Dhan in LossGuardian. The connection uses an app ID and API keys issued by Dhan themselves, so there is nothing for you to create.
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Log in on Dhan's own screen. Your password goes to Dhan, not to us.
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Set your limits: a rupee figure, a percentage of capital, a trade count, a cutoff time. These are your rules, not our defaults.
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Trade as normal. LossGuardian watches in the background and speaks up only when you cross a line you drew.
The missing guardrail in Dhan
Most traders can quote their win rate and almost none can quote their profit factor, or how far underwater they went before recovering. A day that closes flat after being down forty thousand at noon is not a flat day. It is a warning, and every broker statement records it as nothing at all.
Daily loss limit
A rupee limit and a percentage of capital, running together. Cross either and the session is stopped.
Revenge trading caught by timing
Re-entering too soon after an exit is what gets flagged, so it is caught even when the trade happens to win.
Consecutive loss cooldown
Hit your streak limit and a countdown holds before the app treats you as clear to re-enter.
Alerts you cannot dismiss
A full-screen stop, not a toast you can click away while tilted.
What Dhan traders get most out of
Two drawdown numbers, labelled honestly
Realised drawdown from closed round-trips, and blended drawdown including floating unrealised. Most tools show one number and call it "max drawdown". These are different figures meaning different things, so both are shown and named.
Win rate and profit factor, computed properly
Win rate from round-trip fill-price analysis rather than the naive sign of P&L, and profit factor as gross wins over gross losses. Both ship with an explainer, because a number you cannot interpret is not information.
Live intraday equity curve
Realised, unrealised and total P&L with your kill-switch status and an equity curve updating through the session. The shape of the curve tells you what the closing number never will.
Is this a Dhan kill switch?
Not in the sense of software that reaches into your Dhan account and closes your positions for you. LossGuardian is read-only: it cannot place, modify or cancel an order. What it does is enforce the rule behind a kill switch: the moment your loss limit, trade count or losing streak is breached, the session is stopped with a full-screen alert you cannot click away, and a cooldown holds before it treats you as clear to re-enter. You close the trade, in Dhan. That is the part that builds the habit, and it is the part software cannot do for you.
The nearest thing is a deep link. From the hard-stop popup, or from Risk Manager settings, LossGuardian opens Dhan’s own kill-switch screen in your browser, already signed in. You then activate it yourself with the OTP Dhan sends you, which the broker requires and no third party can supply. So the trip is one click instead of five, and the decision is still yours. We never toggle it for you: no code path in LossGuardian can flip a live brokerage safety control on your behalf.
One price. Every broker.
Using LossGuardian with Dhan costs exactly what it costs with Zerodha, Fyers, Upstox, Angel One or Groww. Other tools charge you more for using a bigger broker. We don’t.
Dhan questions, answered
Can LossGuardian place or close trades in my Dhan account?
No. LossGuardian is read-only. It cannot place, modify or cancel an order on your Dhan account. It watches your positions and warns you; closing a trade is always your own action in Dhan.
What does an official Dhan integration mean?
LossGuardian connects to Dhan using an app ID and API keys issued by Dhan themselves, rather than asking you to create your own. You still log in on Dhan’s own screen, and we never see or store your Dhan password.
I already use Dhan’s own risk features. Why add LossGuardian?
Broker risk controls act on orders and margin. LossGuardian acts on behaviour: how soon you re-entered after a loss, how many round-trips you have taken, whether you are loosening your own limits mid-session. The two protect against different failures and work fine together.
Is LossGuardian a Dhan kill switch?
Not one that closes your positions for you. LossGuardian is read-only and cannot place, modify or cancel an order. It enforces the rule behind a kill switch: breach your daily loss limit, trade count or losing streak and the session stops with a full-screen alert you cannot dismiss, followed by a cooldown. You close the trade yourself in Dhan. For Dhan’s own kill switch it is semi-automatic: LossGuardian deep-links you straight to that screen from the popup or from Risk Manager settings, signed in and ready, and you activate it with the OTP Dhan sends. That OTP step is a broker requirement and it is mandatory, which is exactly why no tool can flip the switch for you.
Does it cost more to use LossGuardian with Dhan?
No. LossGuardian is one price for every supported broker: Zerodha, Fyers, Dhan, Upstox, Angel One, Groww. Your broker does not change what you pay.