Risk Systems — Smart Open Exposure
Open trades are not free. They consume capacity.
Layer 01 — The accounting
Only true remaining downside counts.
Active Risk % is the loss still possible if the current stop is hit. A reduced stop means only remaining downside counts; a break-even stop means active risk is zero. Floating profit is context, never capacity. This is the professional concept that prevents blind trade stacking.
- Remaining Pool Capacity % = MAX(0, Authorized Cycle Pool − Active Open Risk).
- Exposure Pressure shows how much of the pool open trades already consume.
- Smart Capacity Mode resizes fresh trade count and per-trade risk so total exposure stays inside the pool.
Layer 02 — Why it matters
The invisible over-leverage killer.
Accidentally exceeding the true risk budget rarely feels like a decision — it accumulates through carryover trades nobody re-counted. Smart Open Exposure makes the burden explicit at exactly the moment fresh risk is being authorized, and Total Active Risk After New Trades confirms the final exposure reality on every decision.
How MARS uses this
Before any fresh trade, MARS subtracts summed live stop-distance from the gate-authorized pool and converts the remainder into a concrete directive: how many trades, at what per-trade risk. The arithmetic runs while the operator is calm; under pressure the panel is obeyed, not renegotiated.
How it benefits you
You never size the next trade as if the open ones don't exist - the most common leak in discretionary risk. Open exposure visibly consumes capacity, break-even positions stop masquerading as free, and the account never quietly stacks past its authorized posture.
The exposure-pressure chain: authorized pool, minus live open risk, equals fresh capacity - resolved into one deployment directive.
Layer 03 — Worked example
The 29 / 11 / 18 walk-through.
Authorized cycle pool: 29%. Active open risk from two carryover trades: 11%. Remaining capacity: 18%. Exposure pressure: 37.9% — open trades consume meaningful room. Full-throughput test: 18% ÷ 4 = 4.5% per trade, which clears the 3% minimum viable threshold — so four fresh trades proceed at compressed 4.5% risk instead of the full tier average.
- Had capacity been 10%, the smart suggestion drops to INT(10 ÷ 3) = 3 fresh trades — quality threshold preserved.
- Smart Fresh PT Risk never exceeds the authorized tier per-trade average, even when capacity would allow it.
- Total Active Risk After New Trades = 11% + fresh deployment — the final line every decision must reconcile.
Reference
The capacity arithmetic — verbatim from the Throttle Control Panel
| Output | Formula |
|---|---|
| Remaining Pool Capacity % | MAX(0, Authorized Cycle Pool % − Active Open Risk %) |
| Exposure Pressure | Active Open Risk % ÷ Authorized Cycle Pool % |
| Full Throughput PT Risk % | Remaining Pool Capacity % ÷ Max Fresh Trades Per Cycle |
| Full Throughput Viable? | Full Throughput PT Risk % ≥ Min Viable Fresh PT Risk % |
| Smart Suggested Fresh Trades | 4 if viable; otherwise INT(Remaining Pool ÷ Min Viable Fresh PT Risk) |
| Smart Fresh PT Risk % | MIN(Authorized Per-Trade Avg %, Remaining Pool ÷ Suggested Fresh Trades) |
| Total Active Risk After New Trades | Active Open Risk % + Effective Fresh Deployment Pool % |
The governing idea
Edge cases & failure modes
Where it can mislead
- !Floating profit is context, never capacity — an open winner does not refill the pool.
- !A manual throughput override is legal only with a logged reason; an unlogged override is a discipline breach, not a decision.
- !Carryover trades nobody re-counted are how risk budgets die — the open-exposure inputs are updated every cycle, not when convenient.
Inside this module
3 pages go deeper than this one.
Connected inside MARS
This module doesn't work alone.
Go deeper
Operator briefs on this territory.
Deep dive — 01
Smart Capacity: sizing that respects what is already at risk.
The viability floor, the fresh-trade suggestion logic, and why Smart Capacity fails gracefully.
Read the full brief →
Deep dive — 02
Exposure pressure: how open risk consumes fresh capacity.
The full exposure-pressure calculation, worked end to end — why open trades consume meaningful capacity.
Read the full brief →
Deep dive — 03
Carryover trades: the accounting that keeps cycles honest.
Open positions outlive their cycle. The accounting that stops them from silently stacking risk onto the next one.
Read the full brief →
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