Intelligence · EMIL Lab
Arm it yourself.
EMIL Lab is where a mandate is written: which inputs it may look at, which markets it may touch, how much capital is at risk, and how far it may go without you. Arming requires reading the authorisation text and typing a confirmation. Disarming is one button, always visible, no confirmation.
Trading leveraged products carries a high level of risk to capital. Technology can improve analysis and controls; it cannot remove market risk.
- What it is
- The control surface for EMIL: analysis permissions, market selection, protected capital and profit floor, drawdown and daily loss guards, maximum exposure, automation level, and the individual trading permissions — open, close, modify, hedge.
- Who it is for
- Anyone deciding whether automation that adapts on its own is something they would be willing to authorise, and on what terms.
- Why it matters
- Reading about a permissions model is not the same as being made to type a confirmation before anything is allowed to act.
- How it connects
- In the product the same control surface is wired to the live position book, and every action it proposes passes the risk engine.
- What happens next
- Grant close without open, so it may reduce risk but never create it. Many desks run exactly that way for months before granting anything more.
Operating modes
Three modes. One of them can act.
The mode decides what is possible at all. The mandate decides the boundaries within that. Both are set by you, and EMIL cannot widen either.
EMIL can trade only within approved strategies, assets, sessions, risk and lot limits.
Permitted
- Trading inside every one of those five limits
Not permitted
- An unapproved strategy
- An unselected asset
- A session outside the allowed ones
- Anything past the risk or lot limit
EMIL can trade only within approved strategies, assets, sessions, risk and lot limits.
Permitted
- Trading inside every one of those five limits
Not permitted
- An unapproved strategy
- An unselected asset
- A session outside the allowed ones
- Anything past the risk or lot limit
The boundaries
What the mandate ring-fences.
Every limit below is enforced in the order path, outside the intelligence layer. Nothing EMIL concludes can widen them.
- Protected
- 10,000USDDeclared untouchable. EMIL may not put it at risk — an order that would draw on it is refused before it becomes an order.
- Banked profit
- 2,841USDGains moved above the profit floor. Once banked they join the protected side rather than funding larger positions.
- Working
- 1,420USDThe portion actually deployed. Exposure limits, loss budgets and drawdown guards all measure against this.
Three controls at three horizons, because a bad hour, a bad fortnight and a structural decline are different problems. All three are enforced in the order path, outside the intelligence layer, so nothing EMIL concludes can widen them. None of it removes market risk: structure changes what automation can reach, not what the market can do.
What you configure
Analysis permissions
Which inputs it may look at: price and spread, volatility, cross-asset correlation, account exposure, session behaviour.
Markets
It may not act outside the instruments you select. A request for anything else is declined and logged.
Protected capital
A portion declared untouchable, plus a profit floor that ratchets up as gains are banked and never down.
Risk limits
Maximum drawdown from the high-water mark, daily loss budget, aggregate and per-instrument exposure ceilings.
Automation level
Analyse only, Suggest, or Execute within mandate. The level decides what is possible at all.
Trading permissions
Open, close, modify and hedge are granted individually. Close without open lets it reduce risk but never create it.
Then see it against a real configuration
A demo configures the mandate against your own risk policy, which is the only version of this conversation that matters.