Why RiskGuard Was Created: My Story

Michele Montorio
Nov 30, 2025
3 min read

The beginning (2020): entering trading the wrong way

In 2020 I started trading… without studying. And of course, I paid a high price for that choice.

For months I made all the classic mistakes:

entering trades without a plan
risking too much
moving my stop loss
trading based on emotions

I was no different from thousands of beginners.

The encounter with the Morpheus community

Then I discovered Morpheus Trading Institute, the largest Italian trading community.

It was a turning point.

I had created a digital Journal for myself, to analyze every trade.

It worked so well that, with permission from the academy, I made it available to the entire community.

By supporting thousands of students every day, I realized something important:

The problems I faced… were the same problems most traders had.

Same mistakes.

Same behaviors.

Same psychological traps.

And almost all of them came from poor risk management.

The breaking point: the loss that changed everything

The true birth of RiskGuard came from a huge error.

During a trade that went immediately against me, I did what every trader swears they’ll never do:

I moved my stop
then I widened it
then I removed it completely, hoping price would come back

It didn’t.

In 7 minutes I received a margin call and blew my entire account.

It was painful.

But it was also the moment I promised it would never happen again.

Not to me, and — if I could help — not to anyone else.

The problem: no software truly protects traders

After that loss, I searched for solutions. I tested every risk-management tool available.

But they all had the same limits:

they provided tools, not protection
they didn’t stop psychological errors
they didn’t prevent destructive behaviors
they didn’t intervene when it mattered

No software truly prevented traders from self-destructing.

The solution: build it from scratch

When I realized nothing existed that could actually protect me, the choice was clear:

I would build it myself.

That’s how RiskGuard was born — not from theory, but from real experience… mine and that of thousands of traders.

The pillars of RiskGuard

1. You cannot widen or remove your stop loss

This is the core feature.

And it cannot be disabled.

You can:

reduce your stop
move it into profit

But you can never make it worse.

And you can never remove it.

This alone eliminates one of the most destructive behaviors in discretionary trading.

2. Daily loss limit: complete trading lockdown

You can set a maximum daily loss.

If it is reached:

all trades are closed automatically
you cannot open new trades on that account until midnight

A strict but lifesaving protection.

3. Automatic integrated Journal

RiskGuard logs every trade automatically and builds a real, accurate picture of your trading behavior.

You get:

win rate
risk:reward
drawdown
winning & losing streaks
real behavioral patterns

A precise and unbiased mirror.

4. Quantum: the brain of the system

Quantum analyzes your real statistics and calculates the ideal risk for every trade, keeping you within your chosen maximum drawdown.

It’s dynamic, professional, next-level risk management.

Why I share this story

Because RiskGuard wasn’t created in a meeting room.

It was born from a major mistake — and from the need to protect discretionary traders.

RiskGuard exists to:

protect
discipline
make traders more aware

If it exists today, it’s because I wanted to prevent others from going through what I experienced.