Why did my trade close automatically?

There are several reasons a trade can close without manual action:

• Stop loss hit: The price reached your stop loss level.
• Take profit hit: The price reached your take profit level.
• Margin call / Stop out: Your account equity fell below the margin requirement and the trade was closed to prevent a negative balance. Check your account's stop-out level under Trading Accounts in the CRM.
• Expired order: If you placed a pending order with an expiry time, it may have expired.
• Server maintenance: Rare, but trades can be affected during platform updates.

To investigate:

1. In MT5, go to History tab in the Terminal panel.
2. Find the closed trade and check the Comment column. It will say "sl" (stop loss), "tp" (take profit), or "so" (stop out).