Connect with your own keyUpstox kill switch and daily loss limits, without handing over your account
Upstox gives you a stop-loss on a trade. It does not give you a stop-loss on your day. LossGuardian sits alongside your Upstox account, 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 Upstox account. It warns you, and you act. You log in on Upstox’s own screen, and we never see or store your password.
How LossGuardian connects to Upstox
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Pick Upstox in LossGuardian and paste your own Upstox API key. It is stored in your computer's secure keychain, never on our servers.
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Log in on Upstox's own screen. Your password goes to Upstox, 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 Upstox
Every trader’s failure mode is slightly different. One tilts after a big loss, another gives back a good day in the last thirty minutes, another quietly triples size on Thursdays. A fixed set of vendor-chosen alerts will catch some of that and miss the one thing that actually costs you money.
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 Upstox traders get most out of
Alerts Designer: your rules, not ours
Build your own triggers on top of the built-in guardrails: P&L crossing a threshold in either direction, a profit target, a one-off or daily-repeating time, a recurring interval. Each with its own title, message, sound, screen position and theme.
Profit lock nudges
A recurring prompt while the session is solidly in profit, because giving back a good day is a different failure from taking a bad one, and no loss limit will ever catch it.
Always-on-top overlays
Every alert renders above your charts and order window, with configurable sound, position, duration and whether it can be dismissed at all. A warning behind your trading screen is not a warning.
Is this a Upstox kill switch?
Not in the sense of software that reaches into your Upstox 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 Upstox. 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 Upstox’s own kill-switch screen in your browser, already signed in. You then activate it yourself with the OTP Upstox 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 Upstox costs exactly what it costs with Zerodha, Fyers, Dhan, Angel One or Groww. Other tools charge you more for using a bigger broker. We don’t.
Upstox questions, answered
Can LossGuardian place or close trades in my Upstox account?
No. LossGuardian is read-only. It cannot place, modify or cancel an order on your Upstox account. It watches your positions and warns you; closing a trade is always your own action in Upstox.
How does LossGuardian connect to Upstox?
You supply your own Upstox API key, which LossGuardian stores in your operating system’s secure keychain on your own machine. You log in on Upstox’s own screen, and we never see or store your Upstox password.
Where do I get an Upstox API key, and is it safe to paste in?
You create it in your own Upstox developer account, so it is issued to you and revocable by you at any time. LossGuardian stores it in your operating system’s secure keychain on your machine, never on our servers, and uses it only to read positions and orders.
Is LossGuardian a Upstox 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 Upstox. For Upstox’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 Upstox 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 Upstox?
No. LossGuardian is one price for every supported broker: Zerodha, Fyers, Dhan, Upstox, Angel One, Groww. Your broker does not change what you pay.