Risk & safety · updated 2026

Closing a single position

Every open position on the Trade Desk has its own red Close button. It closes that one (account, contract) pair and leaves the rest of your book alone: the surgical alternative to Flatten all. A confirmation dialog always appears here, and it tells you exactly which of the two cases you are in.

In List view it is the red Close at the end of the position's row; in Cards view it sits at the bottom right of the position's card. It does the same thing either way. (If you hid the Close column from the list, switch it back on in the gear's column list.) On a phone the position cards carry no Close: use a wider screen. Flatten all works from a phone too, but it is not a single close: it closes every position on every account, the leader's included, and pauses copying until you press Resume copying.

Closing a leader position

Closing a position on the leader is just a leader trade. The dialog says so: "This sends a closing order on the leader account. Your followers close along with it, the same way they copy any other trade." The close fills on the leader, the fill mirrors out, and every follower exits with it, delta-exact. Copying stays on throughout.

Closing a follower position

Closing a position on a follower is different, and the difference is the part worth understanding. A closing order is sent for that position only, and copying for that instrument is paused on that account.

It has to be. The follower's job is to match the leader. If you close a follower position while the leader still holds one, the next reconciliation pass would see the gap and re-open the position within seconds. So the close also pauses that account's rule, and the toast tells you plainly that copying that contract on that account "is paused so it is not re-opened. Turn it back on with the Follow switch."

When you want the account mirroring again, use the account's Follow switch on the Trade Desk. If the switch reads Off, flip it On. If the account is still copying other instruments the switch already reads On: cycle it Off and On, and the app asks whether to resume the paused instrument too. To see which instruments are paused before you flip anything, press Rules on the group's strip (or View rules above your positions): the panel lists every rule on the account as On or Paused. The switch remembers, in the browser where you flipped it, which rules it switched off and only re-enables those, so a rule paused by a Close comes back only through that explicit choice. On another device, after clearing site data, or after you change that account's On states in the Copy Rules editor, flipping the switch On resumes every instrument on the account. The next reconcile then re-aligns the account with the leader, which can place catch-up orders at market within seconds.

If the close cannot complete

A close is an ordinary order, so it can miss: a dead session, a closed market. The copier retries the close on a re-sweep, checking every few seconds against the broker's actual book. If the position is still open after the retries, it raises a loud CLOSE FAILED event, a red toast that stays until you close it plus an entry in the alerts bell, naming the contract and account and telling you to close it with your broker. It will not pretend the position is gone.

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