Tidewall Guardian Prop Firm Protection

Tidewall Guardian protects your prop firm account from the rule that ends most challenges: the daily loss limit.

It watches your account equity every tick and every second. When a limit gets close, it closes every position, deletes pending orders and locks trading, before your prop firm's limit is reached.

What it protects

• Daily loss limit: fixed amount, % of initial balance, or % of the day start value. Measured from balance, equity, or the higher of both at the daily reset. Any reset time.
• Maximum loss: static (from initial balance), trailing (from the equity high) or end-of-day trailing (from the highest daily balance), with an optional stop at the initial balance.
• Safety buffer: acts before the real limit, for example at 90%.
• Optional daily profit target: lock in a good day.

What it does when a limit is reached

• Closes all positions on the account and deletes pending orders.
• Daily limit: trading is locked until the next daily reset, then released automatically.
• Maximum loss: the account stays locked until you release it manually.
• Anything opened during a lock, by you or by another EA, is closed again immediately.
• Pop-up and push notifications. Clear on-chart panel. Settings survive a terminal restart.

Tested on real ticks. Nasdaq futures, July to October 2026, daily limit 3,000 USD, action at 90%: 49 daily locks, median reaction 7 USD from the trigger, every lock released at the next reset.

Honest limits, please read

• No software can close a trade between two price ticks. On fast or thin markets the price can jump past your level: in our test, 6 of 49 locks on a back-month contract ended above the limit. Use a larger buffer on volatile or illiquid instruments.
• Guardian monitors the whole account and closes all positions, including those of other EAs.
• MetaTrader must stay open and connected (a VPS is recommended).
• It does not trade for you and does not guarantee that an account will never be lost. Always check your prop firm's current rules and enter them yourself.

Example: a classic 2-step challenge (5% daily loss from the start-of-day balance, 10% maximum loss)

• Daily limit type: % of initial balance, value 5, measured from: balance at daily reset
• Daily reset: your firm's reset time, in your broker's server time
• Max loss type: static, unit: % of initial balance, value 10
• Safety buffer: 10

Try before you buy. Download the free demo and run it in the Strategy Tester: test trades are opened automatically so you can watch the protection work. We recommend testing every product this way before buying, ours included.

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