Per-account vs. portfolio-aware risk, explained

AlphaRelay's tiers split on one idea: how smart the risk engine is.

Per-account (siloed) risk

Every account enforces its own rules independently — daily loss limit, drawdown cushion, contract caps, lockouts. Account A breaching has no effect on Account B. This is the Pilot model, and for a handful of independent accounts it's often all you need.

Portfolio-aware risk

Once accounts move together — same strategy, same firm family, correlated instruments — siloed rules miss the bigger picture. Portfolio-aware risk (Operator and Scale) tracks combined exposure and can lock correlated accounts together when one hits its limits, so a bad day doesn't quietly chew through the whole stack.

Neither is 'better' in the abstract — it depends on how correlated your accounts really are. The point is that you choose, and the engine enforces it consistently.

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