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Most funded accounts don't die from one bad trade. They die from a rule
the trader didn't fully understand - usually one of the two loss rules
that every prop firm enforces: the daily loss limit and the maximum
drawdown. They sound similar. They are not.
**Daily loss vs. maximum drawdown**
Daily loss is a moving line that resets every day. At FTMO, for
example, the allowed daily loss is a fixed amount (5% of the initial
account size on the classic 2-Step Challenge), and the line is drawn
from your balance at midnight CE(S)T. Your equity must never touch it -
floating losses count, not just closed trades. Other firms (FundedNext,
E8, The5ers) measure the daily loss from a day-start snapshot of
balance or equity instead, so the limit amount changes every single day.
Maximum drawdown is the account's hard floor. Here firms differ even
more, and this is where most surprises happen:
- Static: the floor sits a fixed percentage below the initial balance
(FTMO: 10%, E8: 8% on the standard evaluation). It never moves. This
is the most forgiving variant.
- Trailing: the floor follows your highest equity up. Make +6%, and
your floor rises with it. Traders regularly blow trailing-DD accounts
while being in profit overall, because they gave back a chunk after a
good run and the floor had quietly moved up behind them.
- From day start: a hybrid used by some products - the reference resets
daily.
If you don't know which method your account uses, you don't actually
know how much room you have. That is not a trading-skill problem; it's
an information problem.
**The mistakes that actually break accounts**
1. Floating losses are forgotten. The daily rule is checked against
equity. A position that is -4% floating has already used 80% of a 5%
daily limit, even though nothing is closed yet.
2. Midnight math is wrong. The FTMO-style daily line is anchored at
midnight CE(S)T; your broker's server midnight may differ by an hour
or two. Traders calculate their buffer from the wrong baseline.
3. Several EAs stack risk on the same account. Each robot respects its
own risk settings - but nobody adds them up. Three EAs risking
"only" 2% each can violate a 5% daily limit together in one bad hour.
4. The trailing floor is invisible. Nothing in the terminal shows you
where a trailing drawdown floor currently sits. You have to compute
it from your equity high - most people never do.
5. One emotional day. The daily limit is hit not by the first loss but
by the revenge trades after it.
**What actually helps**
The boring, honest answer: see your numbers in real time, and decide in
advance what happens when a limit gets close.
A read-only panel on the chart that shows today's loss, the distance to
the daily line and the current drawdown already prevents mistakes #1,
#2 and #4 - simply because the number is visible while you trade. That
is exactly what the free Prop Risk Meter does (display only; as an
indicator it technically cannot touch your trades).
If you want the decision automated - close everything at 80/100% of the
limit, block further trading until the day resets, apply the correct
rule preset for FTMO / FundedNext / E8 / The5ers - that is what the
paid Guardian family utilities do: Account Guardian, Challenge
Guardian, and Guardian Coordinator for accounts running several EAs at
once.
If you manage multiple challenge accounts and want the same numbers as
a dashboard outside the terminal, that is the problem our web-based
project Daftar is being built for - it's in an early wait-list stage.
No tool can make a losing strategy pass a challenge, and none of the
tools above promises that. What they can do is make sure a working
strategy isn't killed by a rule you couldn't see.
*The rule values mentioned (FTMO, FundedNext, E8, The5ers) are
researched guidance as of July 2026 - firms change their terms, always
verify your own account's rules.*
---
=== BLOG 2 ===
**Titel:** Why read-only risk monitoring is safer than another trading bot
Every week someone asks: "Can I give your tool my account and let it
manage the risk?" It's the wrong question - and understanding why will
save you money and possibly your funded account.
**The permission ladder**
Everything you attach to a trading account sits somewhere on a
permission ladder:
1. Read-only display - can look at balance, equity, positions. Cannot
place, modify or close anything. In MQL5, an indicator is read-only
by construction: the trading functions simply do not execute from
indicator code. It's not a promise, it's a technical property.
2. Protective execution - can close positions and delete pending
orders, but never opens trades. This is what a guardian-style
utility does: the only thing it can do to your account is reduce
exposure.
3. Full trading access - can open positions. Every EA, every copier,
every "account management" service sits here.
Each step up the ladder multiplies what can go wrong. A bug, a bad
setting or a malicious update at level 3 can destroy an account. At
level 1 the worst case is a wrong number on a panel.
**Why this matters specifically for funded accounts**
Prop firms don't just care about your P/L - they care about how it was
produced. Third-party "account management", shared logins and
copy-trading across customers can breach the firm's terms and void a
payout. Two properties keep you clearly on the safe side:
- No credentials leave your machine. A chart utility runs inside YOUR
terminal, on YOUR login session. Nothing to hand over, nothing stored
on someone else's server.
- No trade origination. A tool that never opens trades cannot be
accused of trading your evaluation for you. Closing trades to respect
a loss limit is risk management; opening trades is trading.
**Where each level makes sense**
Start at level 1: a read-only panel that shows today's loss, the
distance to your daily-loss line and your drawdown from the equity
peak. Free, zero risk, and it fixes the most common failure mode - not
seeing the number while you trade. Our free Prop Risk Meter is exactly
this and nothing more, on purpose.
Move to level 2 when you want the decision automated: hard daily-loss
and max-drawdown limits with the correct preset for your firm,
auto-close and a trading block when a line is hit. That's the paid
Guardian family: Account Guardian, Challenge Guardian, Guardian Copier
for account-to-account copying on your own machine, and Guardian
Coordinator when several EAs share one account.
Be deliberately skeptical at level 3. If you run EAs, fine - but put a
level-2 guardian above them, because every EA only knows its own risk,
not the account's total.
For traders who juggle several funded accounts and want the same
read-only numbers aggregated in one place outside MT5, that's the gap
our web project Daftar aims at (early stage, wait-list only - and it
follows the same principle: read-only data, no trade access, no
passwords to your trading account).
**The honest limitation**
Read-only monitoring cannot save you from yourself: it shows the line,
it doesn't stop you from crossing it. Protective utilities cannot
prevent another EA from sending an order; they can only close what
breaks the rules within seconds. And nothing - at any level of the
ladder - improves a strategy's edge. Anyone who tells you otherwise is
selling something else entirely.
Pick the lowest level that solves your problem. Your account will
outlive most tools that promised more.
---
=== ACCOUNT GUARDIAN ===
**Neuer Titel:**
Account Guardian - Daily Loss & Drawdown Auto-Protection
**Kurzbeschreibung:**
Set a daily-loss and a max-drawdown limit for your whole account.
Account Guardian watches equity in real time, warns early, and if a
limit is hit it closes all positions and blocks further trading until
reset. It never opens trades.
**Lange Beschreibung:**
Account Guardian is a protection utility for any MT5 account. You
define two hard lines - a daily loss limit and a maximum drawdown - and
the Guardian enforces them, no matter which EA or manual trade caused
the loss.
WHAT IT DOES
- Watches account equity in real time (floating losses count)
- Daily loss limit: % of day-start baseline or fixed amount
- Max drawdown with three calculation methods - static below initial
balance, trailing below the equity peak, or from the day-start
baseline - so you can match your broker or prop firm exactly
- Early warning at a configurable percentage of each limit (default 80%)
- On breach: alert only, close all, or close all + block further
trading until reset (your choice per limit)
- While blocked: new positions are closed immediately and pending
orders are deleted
- Robust close engine: requotes, price changes, timeouts and
disconnects are handled with retries and back-off
- State survives terminal restarts; duplicate-instance detection
WHAT IT NEVER DOES
It never opens trades, never modifies your stops, uses no DLLs, makes
no web requests and needs no passwords. The only power it has over
your account is to reduce exposure.
HONEST LIMITATION
A chart utility cannot technically prevent another program from
sending an order - it closes rule-breaking positions within seconds
and logs the event. It also cannot make any strategy profitable.
TRY BEFORE YOU BUY
Run the free demo in the Strategy Tester - all panel states and the
protection logic are visible there.
MORE FROM THE GUARDIAN FAMILY
- Doing a prop-firm challenge? Challenge Guardian adds firm presets
(FTMO, FundedNext, E8, The5ers) and a full challenge cockpit.
- Several EAs on one account? Guardian Coordinator enforces one shared
risk budget across all of them.
- Want to see your numbers first, for free? Prop Risk Meter is our
free read-only risk panel.
- Managing several accounts? Our read-only web dashboard project
Daftar is in an early wait-list stage.
**Tags:**
risk management, equity protection, daily loss, drawdown, stop loss,
account protection, prop firm, utility, auto close, funded account
---
=== CHALLENGE GUARDIAN ===
**Neuer Titel:**
Challenge Guardian - Prop-Firm Challenge Protection & Cockpit
**Kurzbeschreibung:**
The challenge cockpit for FTMO, FundedNext, E8 and The5ers accounts:
daily-loss and max-drawdown guarding with firm presets, profit-target
progress, trading-day counter and an optional high-impact news filter.
Closes and blocks when a rule line is hit - never opens trades.
**Lange Beschreibung:**
Challenge Guardian protects prop-firm challenge and funded accounts
against the two rules that end most of them: the daily loss limit and
the maximum drawdown.
FIRM PRESETS, CALCULATED THE WAY FIRMS CALCULATE
Presets for FTMO 2-Step, FTMO 1-Step, FundedNext, E8 Markets and
The5ers - including the details that catch traders out, e.g. FTMO's
daily loss being a FIXED amount of the initial size measured against
the midnight balance line, while other firms use a day-start snapshot.
Three drawdown methods (static / trailing / from day start) cover the
rest. Everything is also fully configurable via the Custom preset.
Presets are researched guidance (July 2026) - always verify your own
firm's current rules.
CHALLENGE COCKPIT ON THE CHART
- Profit-target progress and remaining distance
- Daily-loss and drawdown buffers in money AND percent, traffic-light
bars, early warning at a configurable % (default 80%)
- Trading-day counter (minimum trading days)
- Optional high-impact news window guard (economic calendar)
- Panel in English, German, French and Arabic
PROTECTION ACTIONS
Per limit: alert only, close all once, or close all + delete pendings +
block until reset. Robust close engine with retry/back-off for
requotes, timeouts and disconnects. CSV journal of every event.
WHAT IT NEVER DOES
No trade entries, no martingale/grid, no DLLs, no web requests, no
passwords. And honestly: no tool can make a strategy pass a challenge -
this one makes sure a working strategy isn't killed by a rule you
didn't see.
TRY BEFORE YOU BUY
Free demo in the Strategy Tester.
MORE FROM THE GUARDIAN FAMILY
- Several EAs on the account? Guardian Coordinator adds a shared risk
budget across all magics.
- Funded and just need account-level limits? Account Guardian is the
lighter option.
- Free taste first: Prop Risk Meter, our read-only risk panel.
- Several challenges in parallel? Our read-only web dashboard project
Daftar is in an early wait-list stage.
**Tags:**
prop firm, FTMO, FundedNext, E8, The5ers, challenge, funded account,
daily loss, drawdown, risk management, news filter, utility
---
=== GUARDIAN COPIER ===
**Neuer Titel:**
Guardian Copier - Local MT5 Trade Copier with Risk Guard
**Kurzbeschreibung:**
Copy trades between MT5 terminals on the same machine - with a Guardian
risk layer on the receiver: lot scaling, symbol mapping, freshness
checks and a protection block that pauses copying when your loss limits
are hit. No DLLs, no cloud, no passwords.
**Lange Beschreibung:**
Guardian Copier copies trades from one MT5 terminal (master) to another
(receiver) on the same computer - built for traders who run a source
account and one or more target accounts locally and want protection
built in, not bolted on.
COPYING
- Local file-based transport (FILE_COMMON), ~200 ms reaction time
- Setup wizard: attach master EA, attach receiver EA, done (Mode=Auto)
- Lot scaling modes (multiplier, balance-proportional, fixed)
- Symbol mapping incl. broker suffix handling (EURUSD -> EURUSD.r)
- Open, close, partial close and SL/TP changes are synchronized
- Stale-feed detection: if the master feed stops, the receiver says so
clearly instead of acting on old data
GUARDIAN RISK LAYER ON THE RECEIVER
Daily-loss and drawdown limits on the receiver account pause copying
and protect the account when hit - the same protection engine used
across the Guardian family. Panel in EN / DE / AR with traffic-light
status and plain-text reason.
SAFETY BY DESIGN
Both terminals run on YOUR machine with YOUR logins - no cloud service,
no passwords handed over, no DLLs, no web requests. The copier only
manages positions it opened itself (magic-tagged); it never touches
your other trades.
HONEST LIMITATIONS
Local copying only (terminals on the same machine). Copying cannot
improve the source strategy - it reproduces it, including its losses.
TRY BEFORE YOU BUY
Free demo in the Strategy Tester; full function needs two terminals -
the manual documents the setup step by step.
MORE FROM THE GUARDIAN FAMILY
- Protect the master account itself: Account Guardian or Challenge
Guardian (prop-firm presets).
- Other EAs running beside the copier? Guardian Coordinator keeps the
combined exposure inside one budget.
- Free read-only risk panel: Prop Risk Meter.
- Multi-account overview outside MT5: our read-only web project Daftar
(early wait-list).
**Tags:**
trade copier, copy trading, MT5 copier, local copier, lot scaling,
risk management, prop firm, funded account, utility, no dll
---
=== GUARDIAN COORDINATOR ===
**Neuer Titel:**
Guardian Coordinator - Multi-EA Risk Budget & De-Conflictor
**Kurzbeschreibung:**
Several EAs on one account? Each one respects its own risk - nobody
adds them up. Guardian Coordinator registers your EAs by magic number
and enforces ONE shared budget: total lots, total SL-risk, per-EA caps,
hedge de-confliction and account-wide daily-loss/drawdown limits with
prop-firm presets. It never opens trades.
**Lange Beschreibung:**
Most funded accounts running multiple EAs don't fail because one EA is
bad - they fail because the EAs stack risk without knowing about each
other. Guardian Coordinator is the missing layer above them.
EA REGISTRY
Register up to 15 EAs by magic number with labels ("111:Scalper,
222:Swing"), optionally including your manual trades. Positions from
unregistered magics can be ignored, alerted on, or closed - your
choice.
ONE SHARED RISK BUDGET
- Account-wide maximum total lots and/or maximum total SL-based risk
(% of balance) across ALL registered EAs
- If a new position pushes the account over the budget, the newest
position is closed immediately and journaled (alert-only mode
available)
- Positions without a stop loss are counted with a configurable
assumed risk and flagged on the panel
- Optional per-EA lot caps ("111:0.5,222:1.0")
HEDGE DE-CONFLICTOR (NetHedgeGuard)
Two registered EAs holding net-opposite positions in the same symbol
burn spread and freeze exposure. Choose: alert only, close the newer
side, or close both.
MASTER RISK LAYER
Account-wide daily-loss and max-drawdown limits with presets for FTMO
2-Step, FTMO 1-Step, FundedNext, E8 and The5ers plus a fully custom
mode and three drawdown methods. On breach: close all registered
positions, delete their pendings, block until reset. Early warning at
a configurable % (default 80%). Presets are researched guidance -
always verify your firm's current rules.
PANEL & JOURNAL
Traffic-light cockpit with one row per EA (lots, positions, cap usage,
missing-SL flag), total exposure vs. budget, distance to the account
limit and a plain-text reason. Languages: EN / DE / AR. Every action is
logged to a CSV journal.
WHAT IT NEVER DOES
No trade entries, no martingale/grid, no lot manipulation of other
EAs, no DLLs, no web requests, no passwords.
HONEST LIMITATION
An overlay utility cannot prevent another EA from SENDING an order -
it closes rule-breaking positions within seconds and logs everything.
TRY BEFORE YOU BUY
Free demo in the Strategy Tester.
MORE FROM THE GUARDIAN FAMILY
- Single EA or manual account? Account Guardian (account limits) or
Challenge Guardian (challenge cockpit with firm presets).
- Copying between your own terminals? Guardian Copier.
- See your numbers first, free: Prop Risk Meter (read-only panel).
- Cross-account view outside MT5: our read-only web project Daftar
(early wait-list).
**Tags:**
multi ea, risk management, magic number, exposure, lot limit, hedge,
prop firm, FTMO, funded account, drawdown, daily loss, utility
the trader didn't fully understand - usually one of the two loss rules
that every prop firm enforces: the daily loss limit and the maximum
drawdown. They sound similar. They are not.
**Daily loss vs. maximum drawdown**
Daily loss is a moving line that resets every day. At FTMO, for
example, the allowed daily loss is a fixed amount (5% of the initial
account size on the classic 2-Step Challenge), and the line is drawn
from your balance at midnight CE(S)T. Your equity must never touch it -
floating losses count, not just closed trades. Other firms (FundedNext,
E8, The5ers) measure the daily loss from a day-start snapshot of
balance or equity instead, so the limit amount changes every single day.
Maximum drawdown is the account's hard floor. Here firms differ even
more, and this is where most surprises happen:
- Static: the floor sits a fixed percentage below the initial balance
(FTMO: 10%, E8: 8% on the standard evaluation). It never moves. This
is the most forgiving variant.
- Trailing: the floor follows your highest equity up. Make +6%, and
your floor rises with it. Traders regularly blow trailing-DD accounts
while being in profit overall, because they gave back a chunk after a
good run and the floor had quietly moved up behind them.
- From day start: a hybrid used by some products - the reference resets
daily.
If you don't know which method your account uses, you don't actually
know how much room you have. That is not a trading-skill problem; it's
an information problem.
**The mistakes that actually break accounts**
1. Floating losses are forgotten. The daily rule is checked against
equity. A position that is -4% floating has already used 80% of a 5%
daily limit, even though nothing is closed yet.
2. Midnight math is wrong. The FTMO-style daily line is anchored at
midnight CE(S)T; your broker's server midnight may differ by an hour
or two. Traders calculate their buffer from the wrong baseline.
3. Several EAs stack risk on the same account. Each robot respects its
own risk settings - but nobody adds them up. Three EAs risking
"only" 2% each can violate a 5% daily limit together in one bad hour.
4. The trailing floor is invisible. Nothing in the terminal shows you
where a trailing drawdown floor currently sits. You have to compute
it from your equity high - most people never do.
5. One emotional day. The daily limit is hit not by the first loss but
by the revenge trades after it.
**What actually helps**
The boring, honest answer: see your numbers in real time, and decide in
advance what happens when a limit gets close.
A read-only panel on the chart that shows today's loss, the distance to
the daily line and the current drawdown already prevents mistakes #1,
#2 and #4 - simply because the number is visible while you trade. That
is exactly what the free Prop Risk Meter does (display only; as an
indicator it technically cannot touch your trades).
If you want the decision automated - close everything at 80/100% of the
limit, block further trading until the day resets, apply the correct
rule preset for FTMO / FundedNext / E8 / The5ers - that is what the
paid Guardian family utilities do: Account Guardian, Challenge
Guardian, and Guardian Coordinator for accounts running several EAs at
once.
If you manage multiple challenge accounts and want the same numbers as
a dashboard outside the terminal, that is the problem our web-based
project Daftar is being built for - it's in an early wait-list stage.
No tool can make a losing strategy pass a challenge, and none of the
tools above promises that. What they can do is make sure a working
strategy isn't killed by a rule you couldn't see.
*The rule values mentioned (FTMO, FundedNext, E8, The5ers) are
researched guidance as of July 2026 - firms change their terms, always
verify your own account's rules.*
---
=== BLOG 2 ===
**Titel:** Why read-only risk monitoring is safer than another trading bot
Every week someone asks: "Can I give your tool my account and let it
manage the risk?" It's the wrong question - and understanding why will
save you money and possibly your funded account.
**The permission ladder**
Everything you attach to a trading account sits somewhere on a
permission ladder:
1. Read-only display - can look at balance, equity, positions. Cannot
place, modify or close anything. In MQL5, an indicator is read-only
by construction: the trading functions simply do not execute from
indicator code. It's not a promise, it's a technical property.
2. Protective execution - can close positions and delete pending
orders, but never opens trades. This is what a guardian-style
utility does: the only thing it can do to your account is reduce
exposure.
3. Full trading access - can open positions. Every EA, every copier,
every "account management" service sits here.
Each step up the ladder multiplies what can go wrong. A bug, a bad
setting or a malicious update at level 3 can destroy an account. At
level 1 the worst case is a wrong number on a panel.
**Why this matters specifically for funded accounts**
Prop firms don't just care about your P/L - they care about how it was
produced. Third-party "account management", shared logins and
copy-trading across customers can breach the firm's terms and void a
payout. Two properties keep you clearly on the safe side:
- No credentials leave your machine. A chart utility runs inside YOUR
terminal, on YOUR login session. Nothing to hand over, nothing stored
on someone else's server.
- No trade origination. A tool that never opens trades cannot be
accused of trading your evaluation for you. Closing trades to respect
a loss limit is risk management; opening trades is trading.
**Where each level makes sense**
Start at level 1: a read-only panel that shows today's loss, the
distance to your daily-loss line and your drawdown from the equity
peak. Free, zero risk, and it fixes the most common failure mode - not
seeing the number while you trade. Our free Prop Risk Meter is exactly
this and nothing more, on purpose.
Move to level 2 when you want the decision automated: hard daily-loss
and max-drawdown limits with the correct preset for your firm,
auto-close and a trading block when a line is hit. That's the paid
Guardian family: Account Guardian, Challenge Guardian, Guardian Copier
for account-to-account copying on your own machine, and Guardian
Coordinator when several EAs share one account.
Be deliberately skeptical at level 3. If you run EAs, fine - but put a
level-2 guardian above them, because every EA only knows its own risk,
not the account's total.
For traders who juggle several funded accounts and want the same
read-only numbers aggregated in one place outside MT5, that's the gap
our web project Daftar aims at (early stage, wait-list only - and it
follows the same principle: read-only data, no trade access, no
passwords to your trading account).
**The honest limitation**
Read-only monitoring cannot save you from yourself: it shows the line,
it doesn't stop you from crossing it. Protective utilities cannot
prevent another EA from sending an order; they can only close what
breaks the rules within seconds. And nothing - at any level of the
ladder - improves a strategy's edge. Anyone who tells you otherwise is
selling something else entirely.
Pick the lowest level that solves your problem. Your account will
outlive most tools that promised more.
---
=== ACCOUNT GUARDIAN ===
**Neuer Titel:**
Account Guardian - Daily Loss & Drawdown Auto-Protection
**Kurzbeschreibung:**
Set a daily-loss and a max-drawdown limit for your whole account.
Account Guardian watches equity in real time, warns early, and if a
limit is hit it closes all positions and blocks further trading until
reset. It never opens trades.
**Lange Beschreibung:**
Account Guardian is a protection utility for any MT5 account. You
define two hard lines - a daily loss limit and a maximum drawdown - and
the Guardian enforces them, no matter which EA or manual trade caused
the loss.
WHAT IT DOES
- Watches account equity in real time (floating losses count)
- Daily loss limit: % of day-start baseline or fixed amount
- Max drawdown with three calculation methods - static below initial
balance, trailing below the equity peak, or from the day-start
baseline - so you can match your broker or prop firm exactly
- Early warning at a configurable percentage of each limit (default 80%)
- On breach: alert only, close all, or close all + block further
trading until reset (your choice per limit)
- While blocked: new positions are closed immediately and pending
orders are deleted
- Robust close engine: requotes, price changes, timeouts and
disconnects are handled with retries and back-off
- State survives terminal restarts; duplicate-instance detection
WHAT IT NEVER DOES
It never opens trades, never modifies your stops, uses no DLLs, makes
no web requests and needs no passwords. The only power it has over
your account is to reduce exposure.
HONEST LIMITATION
A chart utility cannot technically prevent another program from
sending an order - it closes rule-breaking positions within seconds
and logs the event. It also cannot make any strategy profitable.
TRY BEFORE YOU BUY
Run the free demo in the Strategy Tester - all panel states and the
protection logic are visible there.
MORE FROM THE GUARDIAN FAMILY
- Doing a prop-firm challenge? Challenge Guardian adds firm presets
(FTMO, FundedNext, E8, The5ers) and a full challenge cockpit.
- Several EAs on one account? Guardian Coordinator enforces one shared
risk budget across all of them.
- Want to see your numbers first, for free? Prop Risk Meter is our
free read-only risk panel.
- Managing several accounts? Our read-only web dashboard project
Daftar is in an early wait-list stage.
**Tags:**
risk management, equity protection, daily loss, drawdown, stop loss,
account protection, prop firm, utility, auto close, funded account
---
=== CHALLENGE GUARDIAN ===
**Neuer Titel:**
Challenge Guardian - Prop-Firm Challenge Protection & Cockpit
**Kurzbeschreibung:**
The challenge cockpit for FTMO, FundedNext, E8 and The5ers accounts:
daily-loss and max-drawdown guarding with firm presets, profit-target
progress, trading-day counter and an optional high-impact news filter.
Closes and blocks when a rule line is hit - never opens trades.
**Lange Beschreibung:**
Challenge Guardian protects prop-firm challenge and funded accounts
against the two rules that end most of them: the daily loss limit and
the maximum drawdown.
FIRM PRESETS, CALCULATED THE WAY FIRMS CALCULATE
Presets for FTMO 2-Step, FTMO 1-Step, FundedNext, E8 Markets and
The5ers - including the details that catch traders out, e.g. FTMO's
daily loss being a FIXED amount of the initial size measured against
the midnight balance line, while other firms use a day-start snapshot.
Three drawdown methods (static / trailing / from day start) cover the
rest. Everything is also fully configurable via the Custom preset.
Presets are researched guidance (July 2026) - always verify your own
firm's current rules.
CHALLENGE COCKPIT ON THE CHART
- Profit-target progress and remaining distance
- Daily-loss and drawdown buffers in money AND percent, traffic-light
bars, early warning at a configurable % (default 80%)
- Trading-day counter (minimum trading days)
- Optional high-impact news window guard (economic calendar)
- Panel in English, German, French and Arabic
PROTECTION ACTIONS
Per limit: alert only, close all once, or close all + delete pendings +
block until reset. Robust close engine with retry/back-off for
requotes, timeouts and disconnects. CSV journal of every event.
WHAT IT NEVER DOES
No trade entries, no martingale/grid, no DLLs, no web requests, no
passwords. And honestly: no tool can make a strategy pass a challenge -
this one makes sure a working strategy isn't killed by a rule you
didn't see.
TRY BEFORE YOU BUY
Free demo in the Strategy Tester.
MORE FROM THE GUARDIAN FAMILY
- Several EAs on the account? Guardian Coordinator adds a shared risk
budget across all magics.
- Funded and just need account-level limits? Account Guardian is the
lighter option.
- Free taste first: Prop Risk Meter, our read-only risk panel.
- Several challenges in parallel? Our read-only web dashboard project
Daftar is in an early wait-list stage.
**Tags:**
prop firm, FTMO, FundedNext, E8, The5ers, challenge, funded account,
daily loss, drawdown, risk management, news filter, utility
---
=== GUARDIAN COPIER ===
**Neuer Titel:**
Guardian Copier - Local MT5 Trade Copier with Risk Guard
**Kurzbeschreibung:**
Copy trades between MT5 terminals on the same machine - with a Guardian
risk layer on the receiver: lot scaling, symbol mapping, freshness
checks and a protection block that pauses copying when your loss limits
are hit. No DLLs, no cloud, no passwords.
**Lange Beschreibung:**
Guardian Copier copies trades from one MT5 terminal (master) to another
(receiver) on the same computer - built for traders who run a source
account and one or more target accounts locally and want protection
built in, not bolted on.
COPYING
- Local file-based transport (FILE_COMMON), ~200 ms reaction time
- Setup wizard: attach master EA, attach receiver EA, done (Mode=Auto)
- Lot scaling modes (multiplier, balance-proportional, fixed)
- Symbol mapping incl. broker suffix handling (EURUSD -> EURUSD.r)
- Open, close, partial close and SL/TP changes are synchronized
- Stale-feed detection: if the master feed stops, the receiver says so
clearly instead of acting on old data
GUARDIAN RISK LAYER ON THE RECEIVER
Daily-loss and drawdown limits on the receiver account pause copying
and protect the account when hit - the same protection engine used
across the Guardian family. Panel in EN / DE / AR with traffic-light
status and plain-text reason.
SAFETY BY DESIGN
Both terminals run on YOUR machine with YOUR logins - no cloud service,
no passwords handed over, no DLLs, no web requests. The copier only
manages positions it opened itself (magic-tagged); it never touches
your other trades.
HONEST LIMITATIONS
Local copying only (terminals on the same machine). Copying cannot
improve the source strategy - it reproduces it, including its losses.
TRY BEFORE YOU BUY
Free demo in the Strategy Tester; full function needs two terminals -
the manual documents the setup step by step.
MORE FROM THE GUARDIAN FAMILY
- Protect the master account itself: Account Guardian or Challenge
Guardian (prop-firm presets).
- Other EAs running beside the copier? Guardian Coordinator keeps the
combined exposure inside one budget.
- Free read-only risk panel: Prop Risk Meter.
- Multi-account overview outside MT5: our read-only web project Daftar
(early wait-list).
**Tags:**
trade copier, copy trading, MT5 copier, local copier, lot scaling,
risk management, prop firm, funded account, utility, no dll
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=== GUARDIAN COORDINATOR ===
**Neuer Titel:**
Guardian Coordinator - Multi-EA Risk Budget & De-Conflictor
**Kurzbeschreibung:**
Several EAs on one account? Each one respects its own risk - nobody
adds them up. Guardian Coordinator registers your EAs by magic number
and enforces ONE shared budget: total lots, total SL-risk, per-EA caps,
hedge de-confliction and account-wide daily-loss/drawdown limits with
prop-firm presets. It never opens trades.
**Lange Beschreibung:**
Most funded accounts running multiple EAs don't fail because one EA is
bad - they fail because the EAs stack risk without knowing about each
other. Guardian Coordinator is the missing layer above them.
EA REGISTRY
Register up to 15 EAs by magic number with labels ("111:Scalper,
222:Swing"), optionally including your manual trades. Positions from
unregistered magics can be ignored, alerted on, or closed - your
choice.
ONE SHARED RISK BUDGET
- Account-wide maximum total lots and/or maximum total SL-based risk
(% of balance) across ALL registered EAs
- If a new position pushes the account over the budget, the newest
position is closed immediately and journaled (alert-only mode
available)
- Positions without a stop loss are counted with a configurable
assumed risk and flagged on the panel
- Optional per-EA lot caps ("111:0.5,222:1.0")
HEDGE DE-CONFLICTOR (NetHedgeGuard)
Two registered EAs holding net-opposite positions in the same symbol
burn spread and freeze exposure. Choose: alert only, close the newer
side, or close both.
MASTER RISK LAYER
Account-wide daily-loss and max-drawdown limits with presets for FTMO
2-Step, FTMO 1-Step, FundedNext, E8 and The5ers plus a fully custom
mode and three drawdown methods. On breach: close all registered
positions, delete their pendings, block until reset. Early warning at
a configurable % (default 80%). Presets are researched guidance -
always verify your firm's current rules.
PANEL & JOURNAL
Traffic-light cockpit with one row per EA (lots, positions, cap usage,
missing-SL flag), total exposure vs. budget, distance to the account
limit and a plain-text reason. Languages: EN / DE / AR. Every action is
logged to a CSV journal.
WHAT IT NEVER DOES
No trade entries, no martingale/grid, no lot manipulation of other
EAs, no DLLs, no web requests, no passwords.
HONEST LIMITATION
An overlay utility cannot prevent another EA from SENDING an order -
it closes rule-breaking positions within seconds and logs everything.
TRY BEFORE YOU BUY
Free demo in the Strategy Tester.
MORE FROM THE GUARDIAN FAMILY
- Single EA or manual account? Account Guardian (account limits) or
Challenge Guardian (challenge cockpit with firm presets).
- Copying between your own terminals? Guardian Copier.
- See your numbers first, free: Prop Risk Meter (read-only panel).
- Cross-account view outside MT5: our read-only web project Daftar
(early wait-list).
**Tags:**
multi ea, risk management, magic number, exposure, lot limit, hedge,
prop firm, FTMO, funded account, drawdown, daily loss, utility
