Prop-Firm Challenge in MT5: Drawdown Guard, News Lock and a Kill Switch You Can Trust Under Pressure
Prop-Firm Challenge in MT5: Drawdown Guard, News Lock and a Kill Switch You Can Trust Under Pressure
In my experience, failed challenges are often not lost to a bad strategy. They are lost to one oversized day, one news spike or one revenge trade after a loss. Trade Manager PRO adds a safety layer that acts before the rule does.
Trade Manager PRO is built for prop-firm style rules. It is not affiliated with or approved by any prop firm.
The Risk Guard
You enter your firm's rules once: daily loss limit, maximum loss limit, static or trailing maximum, balance or equity reference, and the hour the day resets. The guard then watches equity and shows the room you have left on the RISK tab.
| Limit | Amount | The panel acts at | Meaning |
| Daily 5% of 100,000 | 5,000 | 4,500 | Equity 4,500 below the day's reference |
| Maximum 10% static | 10,000 | 9,000 | Equity 9,000 below the start balance |
The "safety" setting (90% by default in the example) decides how early it acts. You choose the reaction: alert only, block new trades, or close everything and block.
Rules that live on the clock
• Trading hours: allow only certain weekdays and a time window, in server time.
• Weekend flatten: close everything after a Friday time and stay locked until Monday.
• Max trades per day and max open lots, to stop overtrading and oversizing.
News lock
The news lock reads the MetaTrader 5 economic calendar for your symbol's currencies. It blocks new trades for a few minutes around high-impact events and can close the symbol's trades shortly before the release. The RISK tab shows the next event and the time left.
The kill switch
One button, pressed twice: it closes every position and pending order and locks trading until you unlock it. The lock survives a restart, so a panic does not become a second mistake.
Honest limits
• The guard is a safety aid, not a guarantee. A price gap, slippage or a lost connection can take equity past a limit before any software can react.
• If the panel starts late in the day, the day's reference is reconstructed from history. Compare the RISK tab with your firm's dashboard on day one.
• The calendar is not available in the Strategy Tester, so test the news lock on a live demo platform.
Set it up in five minutes
The user manual walks through it step by step, with a checklist before you go live.
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Check out the complete user guide here.Trading involves a high risk of loss. This software is a tool, not advice and does not guarantee results or the passing of any challenge. Practise on a demo account first.
