Risk management for prop traders
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Your funded account,Always protected.

Always know where you stand.
Keep the account you worked for.

Trade with your limits in view.

Works on the platforms
you trade on

Why we built Tradefend

A risk desk.
Behind every trader.

Institutional desks have risk managers.
You deserve guardrails, too.

Protect the account you worked for.

How it works: Tradefend reads each prop firm’s published rules, compiles them into one rule database, and loads the rulebook for your firm and challenge — shown here as code for FTMO’s 2-Step Challenge: 5% daily loss, 10% maximum loss, 10% then 5% profit targets, 4 minimum trading days. Around it: FTMO, Apex, Tradeify, MyFundedFutures, Take Profit Trader and Lucid.

71%

of first-phase failures are daily limit breaches — one oversized position

60–70%

of trailing-drawdown liquidations hit right after a trader's best day

75.6%

of traders keep trading past the point they should have stopped

Published industry research: FPFX Tech (300k+ accounts) · hoc-trade (500k+ traders) · TradeZella. Figures describe prop traders in general, not results of using Tradefend; illustrations are conceptual.

Connect. Arm. Trade.

Your target, your risk and
your limits on one screen.

Illustration of the Tradefend terminal's overview with sample data: open positions and performance on the left; the equity chart, where each day's bar shows the room above the Guard line in blue, the Guard buffer in orange and the breached zone in red, over October's calendar in the middle; on the right daily room, open risk and max-loss room, Breach Guard switched on at 49,100, and the latest trades. Two cards lift out of it: the profit target, trading days and the pre-trade check, and today's high-impact news.

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Your limits, on every screen you trade from.

Nothing to install. Your terminal opens in any browser, so the line you can’t cross is with you at the desk, on the laptop and on your phone.

  • Any browser
  • Mac
  • Windows
  • iPhone
  • Android
The Tradefend terminal on a phone held in one hand and, on wider screens, on a laptop beside it, the same account on both: positions, the profit target, the pre-trade check, the limit cards and equity above its Guard and breach lines.

Stop guessing where the line is.

Pick your firm, connect your platform, and see every limit live in about two minutes.

  • FTMO
  • Apex Trader Funding
  • Tradeify
  • MyFundedFutures
  • Lucid Trading
  • FundedNext

7 days free · No card required · Nothing is charged unless you subscribe

FAQs

Questions, answered straight.

What Tradefend does on your account, what it never does, and how the trial works.

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Is there a free trial?
Yes. Seven days, the full terminal, no card. We email you on day 5, and nothing is charged unless you choose a plan. The plans are on our pricing page.
Can I try it on a demo account first?
Yes, and it’s a good way to start. Connect a demo during the free trial and pick the firm, program and size you’re aiming for (open the demo at the same starting balance), and you’ll see that account’s real limits and where Breach Guard would act before you pay for an evaluation. You can switch Guard on on the demo to watch it work.
Does Tradefend place trades on my account?
The risk terminal doesn't. Its connectors are read-only; the one order it can send is the flatten — closing positions and cancelling their working orders — and it only exists if you explicitly arm the Breach Guard. The risk terminal never opens, adds to or reverses a position. Breach Guard only closes positions and cancels orders.
Does Tradefend lock me out of trading?
No. Tradefend can’t block your platform or stop you placing an order; it doesn’t trade for you. The terminal warns you as each limit fills. If you switch on Breach Guard (optional, off by default), it attempts to close your positions when equity reaches its Guard line, set just inside your firm’s line. After that, while Guard stays on, it attempts to close any new position as soon as it opens: on the daily loss line until your firm’s day resets, on the max loss line until you re-arm it in the terminal or equity climbs back above the line. It’s a backstop that closes trades, not a lock that prevents them.
Is Tradefend allowed by my firm?
Risk-management software that reads your account and places no entry orders is generally permitted — firms restrict tools that trade for you, which the risk terminal does not do. The opt-in Breach Guard closes positions only, and automated trade management policies vary by firm, so check yours before you switch Guard on (it is off by default). If in doubt, ask your firm's support in writing and keep the answer.
What's the difference between a daily loss limit and a trailing drawdown — and do you track both?
A daily loss limit resets each trading day; a trailing drawdown follows your equity high and never gives ground back. Most blown accounts die because the trader confused the two — or didn't know whether their firm counts intraday equity or end-of-day balance. Tradefend models both caps, with each firm's exact timing convention, and shows you the binding one at all times.
Which firms are supported?
23 futures and forex prop firms, among them Apex Trader Funding, Tradeify, MyFundedFutures, Lucid Trading, Take Profit Trader, FTMO, FundedNext, E8 Markets, The5ers, Hola Prime, Alpha Capital and DNA Funded. Each account type is modeled per program and phase from the firm's own pages; one the firm doesn't allow software like ours on shows as Not supported, with the reason. We keep re-reading each firm's rules and checkout and tell you when a rule on your account changes. If a firm's rule is ambiguous or unpublished, we model the conservative reading and tell you so, rather than guessing in your favor.
Can I track several accounts, at different firms, at once?
Yes. Connect every account you trade, in any mix of supported firms and platforms, and each one is held to its own firm’s rules for its program, size and phase. One plan covers all of them, with no per-account fee. Breach Guard is switched on account by account. Tradefend isn’t a trade copier: it watches and protects each account, and it never copies or places trades between them.
Can I use Tradefend with a live brokerage account instead of a prop firm?
Yes. Pick the live-capital profile, set your own daily and max-loss limits, and Tradefend enforces your discipline exactly the way it enforces a firm's — verdicts, meters, tilt alerts and the optional Guard included.
How fast is the Breach Guard? Will it always save my account?
Fast, and honest about the limits. While you have a position open, Tradefend reads your account every 2 seconds on cTrader and TradeLocker, every 3 seconds on Tradovate and NinjaTrader, and every 0.75 seconds on MetaTrader, and our servers check each reading against your firm’s lines in under 10 milliseconds (95 of every 100 readings, measured on the live servers). The moment equity reaches the Guard line, the close goes out on that same reply, through your platform. Guard’s line sits inside your firm’s, so there’s cushion for the close to fill. It’s still best effort: if price gaps past your firm’s line between two readings, the close fills where the market is, and no software, ours or anyone’s, can promise otherwise.
Does Breach Guard depend on my internet or my computer?
Not on Tradovate, NinjaTrader, cTrader or TradeLocker: those connections run on our servers, so Tradefend keeps watching and Guard keeps working with your computer off. MetaTrader is the exception: its connector runs on your own PC, so if that PC sleeps or MetaTrader closes, the feed stops and Guard can’t act until it’s back. Either way Guard’s close goes through your platform, like your own orders, and the market decides the fill.
What about news releases and fast markets?
Guard can’t beat a gap. If price jumps past your firm’s line between two ticks, the close fills where the market is and the account can still breach; that’s why Guard’s line sits inside your firm’s. For news, the terminal can count down to each high-impact release (on by default where your firm restricts news trading), and with Breach Guard on you can have it flatten your positions 5, 10 or 15 minutes before each release. Where a firm counts any close inside the news window against you, Guard waits for the window to end before closing, unless equity nears the firm’s own line first.
Will it work with my EA, algo or trade copier?
Yes. Tradefend reads account state — it doesn't care who placed the trades. Positions opened by an EA or copier count against your caps just like manual ones, which is exactly why you want a second pair of eyes on them.
What access do you actually have to my account?
Read access to your balance, equity, positions and orders. Tradovate, NinjaTrader and cTrader connect through their own approval page, so we never see the password, and you can revoke the access there. TradeLocker has no approval page: you enter its sign-in once, it is sealed in your browser, and it is deleted when you disconnect. MetaTrader runs on your own computer. Only if you switch Breach Guard on can Tradefend close positions and cancel orders on that account. We never sell or share your trading data.
What happens when my firm changes its rules?
We read every firm's rule pages every morning and walk their checkouts through the week, and a change ships the same day — the terminal picks it up without you touching anything, and you get a note when a rule on your account changes. When a firm publishes something ambiguous, we model the stricter interpretation and say so until it's confirmed.
Which platforms do you support?
Tradovate (TradingView traders ride this one), NinjaTrader, TradeLocker, cTrader and MetaTrader. Tradovate, NinjaTrader and cTrader connect from our side: you approve Tradefend on the platform’s own sign-in page and there is nothing to install. TradeLocker takes its sign-in once, sealed in your browser. MetaTrader connects from your own computer with a one-file setup.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes — online, from your profile, no retention maze, no “call us to cancel.” A plan runs to the end of the period you paid for, and you get a reminder before any yearly renewal.

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