The Contract Limits feature helps you stay disciplined by allowing you to set maximum contract limits on your trading accounts. Whether you’re trying to manage risk, stay consistent, or avoid accidental over-sizing, this tool gives you more control than ever before.
Contract Limits are ideal if you’re focused on refining your strategy, enforcing consistency rules, or simply looking to protect your account from oversized trades.
How Contract Limits Work:
Once set, Contract Limits act as a cap on how many contracts you can trade at once - for example, limiting /ES to 2 contracts or /CL to 3 contracts.
If you attempt to place an order that exceeds your contract limit for that product, the trade will be rejected automatically.
Contract Limits are applied per account, so you can tailor them to each of your trading accounts.
How to Set Contract Limits in TopstepX:
Click the Platform Settings Gear.
Navigate to the Risk Settings tab.
Click on Contract Limits.
Set a Symbol Contract Limit on any symbol
Click Save to apply the limits to your account.
Your Contract Limits go into effect immediately after saving and can be updated at any time.
A Few Things to Know:
The contract limit is enforced separately for buy-side and sell-side exposure.
Allow Market orders when it lowers or closes a position
Take Profit (TP) and Stop Loss (SL) bracket orders will be ignored.
Any orders that exceed the limit will be rejected before execution.
Contract Limits only affect order entry - they do not force-close active positions.
Ready to get started?
Head to Platform Settings → Risk Settings → Contract Limits and start customizing your trading size today!