Why funded accounts get breached
Most prop firm failures are mechanical: one oversized position, one revenge trade after a loss, one news spike — and the daily loss limit is gone. The strategy did not fail; the risk control did.
AeronPilot's Prop Firm Guard sits between your signals and your broker. Every incoming order — from TradingView, a webhook or manual trading — is checked against your firm's rules before execution.
What the guard enforces
- Daily loss limit: trading is blocked when the day's loss approaches your configured threshold, with the daily reference balance reset automatically at midnight UTC.
- Maximum drawdown: overall drawdown is tracked against your starting balance and equity high-water mark, remembered server-side even across restarts.
- Lot size caps: a hard maximum per signal stops fat-finger and misconfigured alerts.
- Trade pacing: max trades per day and automatic pause after consecutive losses.
- Consistency helpers: combine with the economic news guard to respect news-trading restrictions many firms impose.
Blocked trades are not lost silently: each block appears in your diagnostics with the exact rule and numbers that triggered it.
Works with the accounts you already have
The guard runs server-side, so it protects MetaTrader 5 accounts (via the AeronPilot EA) and cTrader accounts (via the official API) the same way. It applies to automated signals and manual dashboard trades alike.
Read the companion guide: Risk rules that protect a prop firm account.
Frequently asked questions
Does this work with FTMO-style rules?
Yes. You configure your own thresholds — daily loss percent, maximum drawdown, lot caps — to mirror your firm's rules, whatever the firm. AeronPilot then blocks orders that would push you toward a breach.
What happens when a limit is hit?
New orders are rejected before they reach the broker, and the block is logged with the rule and values that triggered it. Existing positions are not force-closed unless you use the close actions.
Does the protection survive restarts and disconnections?
Yes. Balance references — starting balance, daily reset balance, equity high-water mark — are stored server-side, not in the terminal, so the guard keeps its memory even if MT5 restarts.
Can I use it on a challenge and a funded account at once?
Yes. Each account has its own protection configuration, so a challenge account and a funded account can run different thresholds under the same license.