Official Kite Connect API integrationZerodha kill switch and daily loss limits, without handing over your account
Kite gives you a stop-loss on a trade. It does not give you a stop-loss on your day. LossGuardian connects to your Zerodha account through an official integration, watches your realised and unrealised P&L in real time, and alerts you the moment you hit the limit you set.
Read-only. LossGuardian cannot place, modify or cancel an order in your Zerodha account. It warns you, and you act. You log in on Zerodha’s own screen, and we never see or store your password.
How to connect Zerodha to LossGuardian
A short walkthrough of connecting Zerodha, then the same steps in writing below.
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Download LossGuardian for Windows, install it and sign in.
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Pick Zerodha in LossGuardian. Official Kite Connect API integration
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Log in on Zerodha's own screen. Your password goes to Zerodha, 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 Zerodha
Kite will happily let you take your twelfth trade of a day you planned to take three, and it will not mention that eight of them were revenge entries taken within a minute of being stopped out. A broker platform is built to execute, not to argue with you. The losses that end accounts are behavioural, and nothing in an order window is watching for them.
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
An always-on-top stop, not a toast you can click away while tilted.
What Zerodha traders get most out of
Carry-forward P&L handled separately
A toggle decides whether overnight positions count toward today’s loss limit and round-trip stats. Square-offs attribute charges and P&L to the day each leg actually executed, so a positional trade does not silently eat your intraday budget.
Execution window cutoff
Flag any new position opened after a time you set: no fresh entries after 2:30pm, say. Positions opened before you configured the window are grandfathered, so you are never flagged for a rule that did not exist yet.
Real charges, calculated offline
Brokerage plus STT, exchange fees, SEBI turnover fee, stamp duty, GST and DP charges, computed per your broker’s published rates. Display-only by design: never subtracted from stored P&L, never fed into a limit.
Is this a Zerodha kill switch?
Not in the sense of software that reaches into your Zerodha 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, an always-on-top alert you cannot click away tells you to stop for the day, and a cooldown holds before it treats you as clear to re-enter. You close the trade, in Zerodha. That is the part that builds the habit, and it is the part software cannot do for you.
Zerodha has its own kill switch. LossGuardian cannot switch it on for you, and never will. What it does is open Zerodha’s own page for it from the hard-stop popup and from Risk Manager settings, so finding it takes one click instead of five. You switch it on yourself, in Zerodha. Check Zerodha’s own help pages for how long it lasts, because that differs by broker and can change.
One price. Every broker.
Using LossGuardian with Zerodha costs exactly what it costs with Fyers, Dhan, Upstox, Angel One or Groww. Other tools charge you more for using a bigger broker. We don’t.
Zerodha questions, answered
Can LossGuardian place or close trades in my Zerodha account?
No. LossGuardian is read-only. It cannot place, modify or cancel an order on your Zerodha account. It watches your positions and warns you; closing a trade is always your own action in Zerodha.
How do I connect Zerodha to LossGuardian?
Install LossGuardian on Windows, sign in, and pick Zerodha from the broker list. Then log in on Zerodha’s own screen. The connection runs on Zerodha’s official Kite Connect API. We never see or store your Zerodha password.
Is LossGuardian an official Zerodha integration?
Yes. LossGuardian connects through Zerodha’s official Kite Connect API. You log in on Zerodha’s own screen, and we never see or store your Zerodha password. It is read-only: it cannot place, modify or cancel an order.
Does LossGuardian work with Zerodha Kite and Console?
LossGuardian reads your positions and orders through Zerodha’s official API, so it reflects whatever you trade in Kite. It does not replace Kite or Console. You keep trading exactly as you do now, and LossGuardian watches alongside.
Is LossGuardian a Zerodha 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 an always-on-top alert you cannot dismiss tells you to stop for the day, followed by a cooldown. You close the trade yourself in Zerodha. Zerodha has its own kill switch. LossGuardian opens Zerodha’s page for it from the hard-stop popup and from Risk Manager settings, and you switch it on yourself. LossGuardian cannot switch it on for you.
Does it cost more to use LossGuardian with Zerodha?
No. LossGuardian is one price for every supported broker: Zerodha, Fyers, Dhan, Upstox, Angel One, Groww. Your broker does not change what you pay.