diff --git a/freqtrade/plugins/__init__.py b/freqtrade/plugins/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb
diff --git a/freqtrade/plugins/protectionmanager.py b/freqtrade/plugins/protectionmanager.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ff64ca789
--- /dev/null
+++ b/freqtrade/plugins/protectionmanager.py
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+"""
+Protection manager class
+"""
+import logging
+from typing import Dict, List
+
+from freqtrade.exceptions import OperationalException
+from freqtrade.plugins.protections import IProtection
+from freqtrade.resolvers import ProtectionResolver
+
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class ProtectionManager():
+
+    def __init__(self, exchange, config: dict) -> None:
+        self._exchange = exchange
+        self._config = config
+
+        self._protection_handlers: List[IProtection] = []
+        self._tickers_needed = False
+        for protection_handler_config in self._config.get('protections', None):
+            if 'method' not in protection_handler_config:
+                logger.warning(f"No method found in {protection_handler_config}, ignoring.")
+                continue
+            protection_handler = ProtectionResolver.load_protection(
+                protection_handler_config['method'],
+                exchange=exchange,
+                protectionmanager=self,
+                config=config,
+                protection_config=protection_handler_config,
+            )
+            self._tickers_needed |= protection_handler.needstickers
+            self._protection_handlers.append(protection_handler)
+
+        if not self._protection_handlers:
+            raise OperationalException("No protection Handlers defined")
+
+    @property
+    def name_list(self) -> List[str]:
+        """
+        Get list of loaded Protection Handler names
+        """
+        return [p.name for p in self._protection_handlers]
+
+    def short_desc(self) -> List[Dict]:
+        """
+        List of short_desc for each Pairlist Handler
+        """
+        return [{p.name: p.short_desc()} for p in self._pairlist_handlers]
diff --git a/freqtrade/plugins/protections/__init__.py b/freqtrade/plugins/protections/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5ecae7888
--- /dev/null
+++ b/freqtrade/plugins/protections/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# flake8: noqa: F401
+from freqtrade.plugins.protections.iprotection import IProtection
diff --git a/freqtrade/plugins/protections/iprotection.py b/freqtrade/plugins/protections/iprotection.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b10856f70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/freqtrade/plugins/protections/iprotection.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+
+import logging
+from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
+from typing import Any, Dict
+
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class IProtection(ABC):
+
+    def __init__(self, config: Dict[str, Any]) -> None:
+        self._config = config
+
+    @property
+    def name(self) -> str:
+        return self.__class__.__name__
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def short_desc(self) -> str:
+        """
+        Short method description - used for startup-messages
+        -> Please overwrite in subclasses
+        """
diff --git a/freqtrade/resolvers/__init__.py b/freqtrade/resolvers/__init__.py
index b42ec4931..ef24bf481 100644
--- a/freqtrade/resolvers/__init__.py
+++ b/freqtrade/resolvers/__init__.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from freqtrade.resolvers.exchange_resolver import ExchangeResolver
 # Don't import HyperoptResolver to avoid loading the whole Optimize tree
 # from freqtrade.resolvers.hyperopt_resolver import HyperOptResolver
 from freqtrade.resolvers.pairlist_resolver import PairListResolver
+from freqtrade.resolvers.protection_resolver import ProtectionResolver
 from freqtrade.resolvers.strategy_resolver import StrategyResolver
 
 
diff --git a/freqtrade/resolvers/protection_resolver.py b/freqtrade/resolvers/protection_resolver.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9a85104c3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/freqtrade/resolvers/protection_resolver.py
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# pragma pylint: disable=attribute-defined-outside-init
+
+"""
+This module load custom pairlists
+"""
+import logging
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Dict
+
+from freqtrade.plugins.protections import IProtection
+from freqtrade.resolvers import IResolver
+
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class ProtectionResolver(IResolver):
+    """
+    This class contains all the logic to load custom PairList class
+    """
+    object_type = IProtection
+    object_type_str = "Protection"
+    user_subdir = None
+    initial_search_path = Path(__file__).parent.parent.joinpath('plugins/protections').resolve()
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def load_protection(protection_name: str, exchange, protectionmanager,
+                        config: Dict, protection_config: Dict) -> IProtection:
+        """
+        Load the protection with protection_name
+        :param protection_name: Classname of the pairlist
+        :param exchange: Initialized exchange class
+        :param protectionmanager: Initialized protection manager
+        :param config: configuration dictionary
+        :param protection_config: Configuration dedicated to this pairlist
+        :return: initialized Protection class
+        """
+        return ProtectionResolver.load_object(protection_name, config,
+                                              kwargs={'exchange': exchange,
+                                                      'pairlistmanager': protectionmanager,
+                                                      'config': config,
+                                                      'pairlistconfig': protection_config,
+                                                      },
+                                              )