Prop Firm Risk Guardian MT5

Prop Firm Risk Guardian MT5 — pass the risk rules, not just the profit target.

Most prop-firm challenges are failed not because you can't trade — but because one bad day or a single oversized position breaches the daily or overall drawdown limit. Prop Firm Risk Guardian is a lightweight monitoring utility that enforces those limits for you, automatically, 24/5.

It is a pure protection tool. It never opens trades, sends no signals, and makes no profit promises. It simply keeps your account inside the limits you set — and it keeps the lock after a terminal restart or VPS reconnect.

What it guards

• Daily drawdown lock — equity drawdown from your prop day-start equity or the day's high (your choice). Breach → auto-close and/or block new trades.
• Overall drawdown lock — total drawdown against a configurable initial balance (auto-captured or entered to match your challenge size). Manual-release only.
• Per-trade & total open-risk lock — reads each position's stop-loss and computes real % risk; locks if a single trade or your combined risk exceeds the limit. No-stop-loss trades are flagged.
• Projected-loss / headroom guard — used loss + open SL-risk; warns (or blocks new orders) before you hit the wall.
• Prop timezone & session control — aligns the trading day to your prop firm's timezone and restricts trading to your session window.
• Spread guard — closes newly opened orders when the spread spikes above your threshold.
• Symbol filter — in multi-strategy accounts, apply open-risk / session / spread rules to selected symbols only. (Account-level daily & overall drawdown always covers the whole account.)
• Consecutive-loss lock (optional, off by default) — stops revenge trading after N losses in a row.

Live risk dashboard

A draggable on-chart panel shows a Risk Snapshot (Daily DD, Overall DD, Open Risk, Equity), live limit-usage bars, an evaluation tracker (profit %, trading days, profitable days, consistency), and a big status badge that always reflects your single most important state:

NORMAL · WARNING · HEADROOM · SESSION · RISK LOCK · DAILY LOCK · OVERALL LOCK · OVERRIDE

Alerts

Terminal pop-up, mobile push and email on every state change, debounced to one alert per event.

Locks that hold

Daily / risk / consecutive locks auto-clear at your next prop day and can be manually released (into a clearly-marked OVERRIDE state, so a cleared limit doesn't snap back on). Overall lock is manual-release only. All lock state persists across restart / VPS reconnect.

Key features

• ✅ Automatic daily & overall drawdown locks (prop-firm semantics)
• ✅ Per-trade & total open-risk limits from real stop-losses
• ✅ Projected-loss headroom — blocks new orders before you breach
• ✅ Prop timezone + trading session window control
• ✅ Spread guard + symbol filter for multi-strategy accounts
• ✅ 8-state status badge + Risk Snapshot dashboard, fully draggable
• ✅ Evaluation tracker: profit %, trading days, profitable days, consistency
• ✅ Terminal / push / email alerts (debounced)
• ✅ Lock survives restart / VPS reconnect
• ✅ Works with manual trades and any other EA — opens no trades itself

Important

• This is a risk-management utility, not a trading system. It does not open positions and does not guarantee profit or that you will pass any evaluation. It only executes the risk rules you configure.
• It is magic-number agnostic — it manages all positions/orders on the account (or your filtered symbols), including manual trades and trades from other EAs. Run one instance per account.
• Best tested first on a demo account to see exactly how each lock behaves with your settings.
• Mobile push / email alerts depend on your terminal's MetaQuotes ID / SMTP setup and server speed.

Disclaimer: Trading leveraged products carries a high level of risk. The author is not responsible for any trading losses. Support is provided through the MQL5 comments and private-message system only.