Lusida Prop Firm Challenge EA

LUSIDA is a specialist. It carries a prop firm challenge account from day one to the profit target without ever touching the loss limit — then keeps the funded account alive.

Across eight years of minute-by-minute testing under real FTMO 1-Step rules, LUSIDA entered 52 challenges and passed 34. Two times out of three it won the funded account on the first attempt. In eight years it breached the daily loss limit not once. In funded mode, not a single account was lost in eight years.

Every number on this page is a measurement. None of them is a projection, and the bad years are printed next to the good ones.

📊 THE MEASURED RECORD

Eight years in the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester, 1-minute OHLC modelling. Spread, commission and slippage were charged on every trade. FTMO 1-Step rules: 10% target, 3% daily loss, 10% trailing max loss.

💡 Read the "0" row again. The daily loss limit is what ends most challenges — one excessive day and the account is gone. LUSIDA did not lose a single challenge that way in eight years. All 18 losses came slowly, through the total limit — and that held on every one of the eight variations tested.

🧮 WHY NO SYSTEM PASSES EVERY CHALLENGE

A 100% pass rate is not hard, it is mathematically impossible. To go up you must take risk; any position large enough to reach +10% is by definition sometimes large enough to touch the floor first. The only way never to touch the loss limit is never to open a position, which guarantees never reaching the target. The real question is: how far above pure chance is it?

🎯 That is the achievement. Roughly six times the typical buyer, and comfortably ahead of even a cost-free coin flip — while paying full costs on every single trade.

🛡 THE WORST CASE — MEASURED, NOT PROMISED

🎲 Your account will not be a carbon copy of anyone else's. Every licence carries its own variation, taken automatically from your account number. It nudges entry levels, position sizes and order timing, so two owners trading the same week never look like one trader to a risk desk. The decisions are the same; the footprint is not — which is why the table above shows a range. The record on this page is one of those eight variations; all eight are printed here so you can see the whole spread rather than the best line of it.

📈 Look at the hardest stretch. Late 2020 and 2021 were the roughest period in the whole record: two losses and a ten-month gap. LUSIDA then produced two funded accounts within eight weeks. Short losing streaks are not luck; they are what the risk engine is built to produce.

⚡ HOW QUICKLY DOES IT FUND YOU?

34 funded accounts in eight years, an average of 4.3 per year on the variation shown here. 22 of them — about three a year — arrived on the first attempt, with no entry fee burned. Half of all passes finished inside 34 market days (about seven weeks); the fastest took 11.

⌛ Some challenges run slow, and we measured what that costs. Four passes out of 34 took longer than three months. A challenge still open on day 60 goes on to pass 44% of the time — lower than the overall 65%, so a slow start really is a worse start, but still four times the typical buyer's odds. And because a 1-Step programme has no time limit, a slow challenge costs you patience rather than another entry fee. LUSIDA does not force the target; it waits.

📅 YEAR BY YEAR — INCLUDING THE YEARS WE WOULD RATHER HIDE

✅ 2021 and 2026 are on this page deliberately. Any vendor can show you 2025. The record you can trust is the one where you have already seen the worst year — and even that worst year delivered three funded accounts.

🔏 One thing to keep straight while reading the Lost column: those are yearly totals, not consecutive losses. 2021 lost four challenges spread across twelve months — and even inside that year LUSIDA never lost more than two in a row. That is the difference between a bad year and a broken system.

🏦 TWO MODES IN ONE PRODUCT — CHALLENGE AND FUNDED

Passing is half the job; the account you won has to survive. A challenge rewards speed, a funded account rewards survival. These are opposite settings, and this is exactly where most funded traders lose the account. LUSIDA carries both modes and makes the switch for you.

Same engine, same signals, same rules — the only thing that changes is position size. On the funded setting the account came through the entire eight-year test without ever being lost — and that was true on all eight variations, whose deepest drawdowns ran from 7.5% to 8.0%, never touching the 10% limit.

• It switches itself. When you confirm your pass, LUSIDA moves to the funded phase and reduces position size automatically.
• Already funded? Set Start in phase to Funded and it starts in the right gear from day one.
• The right floor. FTMO applies the funded max loss as a static level from the starting balance, and LUSIDA does not trail the floor in the funded phase either. One checkbox covers a firm whose contract does trail it.
• Total risk cap. The most common reason funded traders have a payout denied is not one oversized trade but the total of everything open at the same time — measured on the realised loss, including spread, commission and slippage. In the funded phase LUSIDA holds the combined risk of all open positions at 0.90%, shrinking a trade that does not fit or skipping it entirely.
• News window. In the funded phase no new position is opened around high-impact news. The calendar is MetaTrader 5's own economic calendar — no external file, no DLL.

What this promises and what it does not. LUSIDA is built so that its own behaviour never gives a compliance desk a reason to look twice: fixed fractional risk, a hard stop on every trade, no martingale, no grid, no adding to losers, nothing held overnight, and every firm limit enforced before the day ends. What no software can promise is a firm's discretion — approving a payout is their decision. Read your own contract; the built-in guide tells you which clauses to look at.

💵 A THIRD USE — YOUR OWN CAPITAL

The same engine with every prop rule switched off, one account, eight years without a break:

💡 Notice what the drawdown row tells you. A 22.4% drawdown would destroy a prop account several times over — which is precisely why LUSIDA runs its three modes in different gears. On your own account a drawdown of that size is survivable, and the curve recovered to new highs.

One purchase, three uses: pass the challenge, run the funded account, run your own money. Costs are included throughout: USD 7 per lot round-turn commission, the real spread at the moment of entry, and slippage.

🔐 IT ENFORCES THE FIRM'S RULES

You pick your firm from a list and the whole rule set is applied automatically — you never type a percentage.

• Daily loss limit — tracked intraday, not at the close. That is the only reason there were zero breaches in eight years.
• Total loss limit — a trailing floor in the challenge, a static floor in the funded phase.
• Consistency / best day rule — monitored continuously; the target does not count as "reached" until the rule is satisfied.
• Minimum trading days — counted and respected.
• Inactivity rule — many firms close an account after 30 consecutive idle days. Measured: the longest gap without a trade in eight years was 7 days (the Christmas break). The robot still warns you on day 20, because the real risk is not the strategy but a VPS that stopped.
• Position sizing and time zone — measured from your live account and your server, never assumed. EUR, GBP and USD accounts are sized correctly, and the window is right whether your broker runs at UTC+0, +2 or +3.

✅ IT WILL NEVER TELL YOU THAT YOU PASSED WHEN YOU HAVE NOT

LUSIDA shows TARGET REACHED only when four conditions are true at the same time: closed balance has reached the target, no position is left open, the minimum trading days are done, and the firm's consistency rule is satisfied. Floating profit that touches the target and falls back does not count. Even with all four satisfied, LUSIDA does not advance on its own; it stops trading and waits for you to confirm that the firm has approved it.

🖥 THE CONTROL PANEL

A complete dashboard on your chart, in English or Turkish, switched with one click.

• Distance to target and an estimated finish date based on your realised pace
• Daily buffer and total buffer, in money, with live meters
• Equity curve, today's status, best-day ratio
• Open positions (symbol, direction, size, live P&L) and recent trades in R
• An eight-page guide built into the panel and a "?" button on every card — no PDF to lose

START and STOP are yours. Not a single order is sent until you press START.

🛠 SETUP TAKES FOUR MINUTES

Log in to your account, drag LUSIDA onto one chart, pick your firm in the settings and press START. Everything else is already set; there is no set file to hunt for and no parameter to optimise. If a symbol name is wrong or Algo Trading is off, the panel tells you.

State is written to disk continuously: even if your VPS restarts in the middle of the day, LUSIDA resumes with the correct daily anchor. A single-instance lock stops a second copy from doubling your orders. A VPS is not required but is recommended — if your computer sleeps, you miss that day.

🏢 WHICH FIRM

FTMO 1-Step — tested, measured and recommended. Every number on this page comes from the rules of the largest and longest-established firm in the industry. Passing at a first-tier firm with a real rule book, real execution and a real compliance department is a completely different achievement from passing at a small firm with a soft price feed.

A FundedNext Stellar 1-Step profile is included; note that FundedNext requires their paid EA add-on and does not allow EAs on the CFD account line. The Custom firm option lets you enter the percentages of a firm that is not on the list.

🔧 REQUIREMENTS

MetaTrader 5 · a broker quoting EURUSD, XAUUSD and USDJPY · a hedging account (all prop MT5 accounts are hedging) · a VPS preferably.

🔒 PERMANENTLY LIMITED TO 100 LICENCES

This product will never be sold to more than 100 people. That is not a marketing device but a structural necessity: prop firms compare accounts across their entire customer base, and if hundreds of accounts entered the same instrument in the same direction in the same second, a risk desk would see it as one trader in a hundred hats.

Two things protect you. The cap keeps the number of owners small, and that number is spread across several firms. The decorrelation layer gives every owner a different trade variation ID; that single number generates its own entry offsets, position sizes and order timing. Two owners trading the same week take the same decisions and see visibly different accounts.

The price rises as licences sell and never falls. When 100 licences are reached the product is withdrawn permanently. Every owner receives all future updates at no extra cost, whichever tier they bought at.

💰 For comparison: the entry fee for a USD 100,000 challenge is roughly USD 500–600, and the record above shows the funded account arriving on the first attempt two times out of three. The founder price is less than a single challenge entry — for a licence you keep for life and use on every challenge, on the funded account and on your own capital.

RISK WARNING. All figures on this page are results from the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester on historical data. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Trading leveraged instruments carries substantial risk and you can lose money. Prop firm rules change without notice; read your firm's current terms before buying a challenge. Nothing here is a guarantee of passing a challenge or of making a profit.