Pause trading

Pause is the gentle lever: it stops all trading immediately (the automatic engine and any manual order you try to place) and nothing else. Positions stay. Orders already open at the broker stay. Signals keep computing. They just can’t place new trades.

When to reach for it

Anything that makes you want a breath: surprise volatility, drift you haven’t investigated (a mismatch between SleeveFolio’s records and your broker’s), a strategy change you want to review before it acts. Pause is free to reach for: it never costs you anything but the trades it skips.

How to pause

On desktop the kill switch is one click from every authenticated screen (the trio in the top bar), or ⌘⇧P from any device with a keyboard. On a phone, tap the one-tap Pause button pinned to the bottom-left of every screen (the navigation menu’s Kill switch section also carries it); the floating Stop button on the right stays reserved for one-tap Liquidate. The kill-switch action notifies you on email (always — a safety confirmation that can’t be turned off), plus push and your in-app inbox by default.

Resuming

Pausing is reversible. While trading is paused, the same control reads Resume: click it from the top-bar trio, the phone’s bottom-left quick controls or navigation menu, or the command palette, and the next signal run can place orders again. Your caps, sleeve budgets, and every other guardrail still apply when trading resumes.

What Pause is not

It doesn’t touch existing orders or positions. To cancel orders still open at the broker, use Cancel all open orders; to exit positions entirely, Liquidate.