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Stopping a playbook does not close your trades
Guides
What stop means
The most important thing to understand before you deploy anything, and the misunderstanding most likely to cost you a bad afternoon.
If you take one mechanical fact from this blog, take this one: stopping a playbook stops it taking NEW trades. It does not close a position that is already open.
Why it works that way
The alternative sounds tidier and is much worse. If stopping a playbook flattened your account, then every stop would be a market order at whatever price happened to be trading, including a stop you hit in a panic, at the worst possible moment, on a position your own rules were still managing sensibly.
Closing a position is a trading decision. bubi does not make trading decisions for you, so it does not make that one either.
What actually happens
The playbook stops opening anything new, immediately. Anything already open stays open and stays yours: your stop-loss and target still sit where they are at the broker, and you can close, move or scale it yourself whenever you want.
If you want flat, close the positions yourself: from bubi, from your own AI through the connector, or from your broker’s own platform. All three reach the same account.
The habit worth building
When you stop something, look at what is open before you walk away. It takes five seconds and it is the difference between "I stopped it" and "I stopped it and I know where I stand".