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Automating a funded account without tripping the rule that ends it.
A funded account is a set of rules with a trading account attached: daily loss limits, trailing drawdown, consistency rules. Automation can break them faster than you can — and while you’re asleep. These articles show how to turn each firm’s rules into limits that are checked before every order.
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Prop Firm Copy Trading Rules: Self-Copy vs Third-Party
Copying your own trades between your own accounts is allowed almost everywhere. Copying anyone else's gets the account closed. Here's where firms draw the line, and how they see it.
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Why Prop Firms Turned Against Third-Party EAs
Three hundred traders running the same EA aren't three hundred traders to a risk desk. They're one, and the rules that ask for your source code exist because of it.
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Prop Firm Daily Loss Limit: What Actually Uses It Up
A 5% daily limit on $100k isn't $5,000 of trading room. Swap, commission, rollover spreads and yesterday's open positions take their share first. Here's how much.
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FTMO EA Rules: Request Limits and the $400k Cap
FTMO allows Expert Advisors outright, with no approval and no source code. What it caps instead is activity, and the number that catches people counts every stop adjustment.
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Why Prop Firm Challenges Fail: The Daily Loss Limit
Most challenges don't end because the strategy was wrong. They end in the first week, on a mechanical threshold, in a sequence that repeats across hundreds of thousands of accounts.