Two limits, both enforced on your own terminal
Nearly every funded programme measures a daily loss and a total loss. TheConnector enforces both, inside the robot, on your own terminal — so they work on a position opened yesterday and even when no alert arrives. What separates them is their reference: the daily limit starts over with the trading day, while the overall one is measured against the balance the account opened with and never starts over. Neither can promise compliance, and the rest of this page says why.
What happens when the daily limit is reached
The robot closes the positions of that account and refuses every new entry for the rest of the trading day. Closing, cancelling and break-even commands keep working, so you are never locked out of your own positions, and the block clears by itself at the next trading day. Recovery baskets are blocked too — the limit is not bypassed by another feature.
The flatten covers everything on that account, including positions opened by hand
Never the positions of another account sharing the same terminal
Rejected entries carry an explicit reason, visible in your order history
Why the reference balance is the hard part
A daily limit is only as good as the number it compares against. Tools that snapshot the balance when they start forget every loss already booked that day the moment you restart your terminal — which is exactly when a funded account can least afford it. TheConnector rebuilds the day-start balance from your account history: current balance, minus the day's realised result, minus the day's cash movements.
- 01A restart at midday keeps the morning's losses inside the limit
- 02A payout does not fabricate a loss, and a top-up does not silently widen your allowance
- 03The comparison uses equity, so an open losing position already moves you toward the limit
Keeping everything inside the robot, including the management
Several funded programmes expect your activity to stay consistent: either you trade by hand, or you let an Expert Advisor work. The two mixed together show up in the account history, and some rule sets weigh that at payout time. TheConnector lets the robot carry the whole cycle: the alert opens the position, and the dashboard manages it afterwards — close it, close part of it, move the stop loss or take profit, secure it at break-even, suspend its trailing stop. Those buttons take the same path as an alert: the robot is still the one writing to your terminal, under its own expert identifier. You never have to click inside the platform. Read your own programme's rules, though — they are the ones that decide, and we do not read them for you.
The alert opens; the dashboard closes, closes part, moves SL/TP, secures at break-even, suspends trailing
Same path as an alert: the robot executes, under its own expert identifier
Managing from the site is part of the Elite plan; the alerts themselves work from the free plan on
We certify no programme: your own rule set decides, and it prevails
What TheConnector does not do for you
There is no per-programme preset — you enter your own threshold rather than picking a firm from a list. And no tool can guarantee a rule is respected: a gap through your level, a broker outage or a platform refusing a closing order all escape anything running on your terminal. The overall limit also releases if equity climbs back above your threshold — a robot that bricked itself for good would be worse than the problem it solves. Read your programme's rules; they are the ones that count.
No per-firm preset: you enter your own thresholds, in percent or in your account currency
No execution guarantee: the fill on a closing order still depends on your broker and the market
Test it on a demo account before a funded one — the setting is per account
Frequently asked questions.
Does it enforce my prop firm's overall drawdown?
Yes. It is measured against the balance the account opened with — the current balance minus every realised trading result and every cash movement, so a withdrawal never reads as a loss. A new trading day does not release it, unlike the daily limit; it releases only if equity climbs back above your threshold. Closing your own positions stays allowed throughout.
Is there a preset for FTMO, FundedNext or The5ers?
No. You enter your own threshold, in percent or in your account currency. Those are third-party programmes with no connection to TheConnector, and their rules change — a preset carrying a stale number would be worse than no preset at all. Take the figure from your own programme's terms.
Does it work when no alert arrives?
Yes, and that is the point of running it inside the robot. A server-side filter can only refuse an incoming signal; it cannot close a position you already hold. Here the check runs on your terminal, so it acts on a position opened yesterday, or opened by hand, whether or not anything arrives.
Which plans include it?
Pro and Elite, on MT4, MT5 and cTrader. These two limits belong to the prop firm rules, along with the weekend flat rule, the minimum hold time and the randomised execution delay. The free Basic tier keeps the settings that concern every account: maximum spread, trailing stop and break-even, economic news filter, symbol matching. Changing plan deletes nothing — your thresholds stay saved and apply again on Pro.
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