Prop Firm Risk

Add a daily drawdown guard before testing prop-style EAs.

Prop-style risk control begins with stopping the EA before the account reaches a daily loss breach. The guard should be external to signal logic and impossible for the strategy branch to skip.

Search intent

The prop trader wants an EA to respect daily loss limits before account breach.

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Define day start and baseline

Daily loss depends on the broker server day and the baseline equity or balance. Pick one rule and log it.

Server date boundary

Start-of-day equity

Current equity and realized PnL

Block before the breach

Use a safety buffer. Waiting until the exact limit is reached can fail because spread and slippage move quickly.

MaxDailyLossPct input

Buffer percent

No new trades when near limit

Make the block auditable

A prop-ready EA should record when trading was stopped and which metric triggered the stop.

Log daily loss amount

Log limit

Log resume time

Use the tool

Run Workfusion Risk Checker to confirm your EA exposes daily loss controls before any serious test.

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