stable/docs/includes/protections.md

## Protections

Protections will protect your strategy from unexpected events and market conditions.

### Available Protection Handlers

* [`StoplossGuard`](#stoploss-guard) (default, if not configured differently)

#### Stoploss Guard

`StoplossGuard` selects all trades within a `lookback_period` (in minutes), and determines if the amount of trades that resulted in stoploss are above `trade_limit` - in which case trading will stop for `stop_duration`.

```json
"protections": [{
        "method": "StoplossGuard",
        "lookback_period": 60,
        "trade_limit": 4,
        "stop_duration": 60
}],
```

!!! Note
    `StoplossGuard` considers all trades with the results `"stop_loss"` and `"trailing_stop_loss"` if the result was negative.

#### Low Profit Pairs

`LowProfitpairs` uses all trades for a pair within a `lookback_period` (in minutes) to determine the overall profit ratio.
If that ratio is below `required_profit`, that pair will be locked for `stop_duration` (in minutes).

```json
"protections": [
    {
        "method": "LowProfitpairs",
        "lookback_period": 60,
        "trade_limit": 4,
        "stop_duration": 60,
        "required_profit": 0.02
    }
],
```

#### Cooldown Period

`CooldownPeriod` locks a pair for `stop_duration` (in minutes) after selling, avoiding a re-entry for this pair for `stop_duration` minutes.



```json
"protections": [
    {
        "method": "CooldownPeriod",
        "stop_duration": 60
    }
],
```

!!! Note:
    This Protection applies only at pair-level, and will never lock all pairs globally.

### Full example of Protections

All protections can be combined at will, also with different parameters, creating a increasing wall for under-performing pairs.
All protections are evaluated in the sequence they are defined.

The below example:

* stops trading if more than 4 stoploss occur for all pairs within a 1 hour (60 minute) limit (`StoplossGuard`).
* Locks each pair after selling for an additional 10 minutes (`CooldownPeriod`), giving other pairs a chance to get filled.
* Locks all pairs that had 4 Trades within the last 6 hours with a combined profit ratio of below 0.02 (<2%). (`LowProfitpairs`)
* Locks all pairs for 120 minutes that had a profit of below 0.01 (<1%) within the last 24h (`60 * 24 = 1440`), a minimum of 7 trades

```json
"protections": [
    {
        "method": "CooldownPeriod",
        "stop_duration": 10
    },
    {
        "method": "StoplossGuard",
        "lookback_period": 60,
        "trade_limit": 4,
        "stop_duration": 60
    },
    {
        "method": "LowProfitpairs",
        "lookback_period": 360,
        "trade_limit": 4,
        "stop_duration": 60,
        "required_profit": 0.02
    },
        {
        "method": "LowProfitpairs",
        "lookback_period": 1440,
        "trade_limit": 7,
        "stop_duration": 120,
        "required_profit": 0.01
    }
    ],
```