Prop-firm cBots for cTrader

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Prop-firm cBots you verify yourself. Three systematic, multi-strategy portfolios built for FTMO Swing — 8, 12 or 14 decorrelated strategies, each drawdown-banded and stop-defined. Every published number is a cTrader-native backtest you reproduce in your own cTrader before you risk a cent.

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Runs on cTrader

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Run it in the cloud. Walk away.

cTrader is the middleman — never us. Every system is a compiled cBot on the official cTrader Store, the platform your regulated broker already runs. You buy it there, it runs there, it only ever uses cTrader's own trading tools (AccessRights.None — no "full access" warning to approve), and we never touch a cent of your money. Then comes the part that changes everything: cTrader's free cloud.

  • Inside a platform you already trust — built by Spotware, run by regulated brokers worldwide.
  • Official Store purchase, with the Store's standard 14-day money-back on every paid product.
See all my cBots on cTrader → Every product on one cTrader profile — each goes live the moment the Store approves its listing.
Three systems

Three decorrelated portfolios, three risk bands.

Guardian is the calmest, Edge the most aggressive — each a book of independent, stop-defined strategies across five or six markets. The headline figures are the cBot's own 5-year (2021→2026) cTrader-native backtest — the one you reproduce in your own cTrader.

Guardian — Conservative FTMO Swing cBot · +115.9% ROI · ▼ −3.18% max drawdown · 2.67 Sharpe · 8 strategies · $160 one-time View system → Balanced — Balanced FTMO Swing cBot · +233.9% ROI · ▼ −4.18% max drawdown · 3.27 Sharpe · 12 strategies · $240 one-time View system → Edge — Aggressive FTMO Swing cBot · +330.8% ROI · ▼ −5.76% max drawdown · 3.26 Sharpe · 14 strategies · $280 one-time View system →

Headline numbers are the cBot's own 5-year (2021→2026) run in cTrader's native backtester — the figure you reproduce by running the shipped cBot in your own cTrader (m1 bars, real commission and swap). Price is one-time on the cTrader Store — $20 per strategy. Nothing rounded up, nothing cherry-picked — see the proof.

The differences, at a glance

Same engine, same verification, same guards. What changes across the three is the number of strategies, the risk band and the price.

 GuardianBalancedEdge
Risk bandConservativeBalancedAggressive
Strategies81214
Markets566
Max drawdown · equity−3.18%−4.18%−5.76%
ROI · 5y (cTrader-native)115.9%233.9%330.8%
Sharpe · per day2.823.33.32
Min. recommended balance€40,000€40,000€20,000
Price · one-time$160$240$280

Pricing — you pay per strategy

One-time on the cTrader Store, no subscription. The price is simply $20 per strategy — a bigger portfolio means more edge and more diversification, so the ladder is transparent: you pay for exactly the number of strategies you get.

PortfolioStrategiesPer strategyPrice · one-time
Guardian8$20$160
Balanced12$20$240
Edge14$20$280

Early-buyer pricing — it only goes up

The per-strategy price starts at $20 and rises +$5 every 5 sales, up to a $75 ceiling. Today's price is the floor — the earlier you buy, the less you pay.

At the $75 ceiling the portfolios would read Guardian $600 · Balanced $900 · Edge $1,050 — so early access is a real discount, not a countdown gimmick.

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The curve is the cBot's own cTrader-native run (m1 bars, real commission and swap) — the figure you reproduce in your own cTrader. Additive %-risk on a fixed base, no compounding. See the proof →

Why they're funding-ready

Passing a prop challenge is a drawdown problem, not a return problem. Every system is engineered to stay inside the band the firm measures.

Contained drawdown

Guardian holds under −3.18%, Balanced under −4.18%, Edge under −5.76% max equity drawdown across the full 5-year backtest — well inside FTMO's limits, so a rough week doesn't end the account.

Prop-firm guards

A daily-loss guard, a daily entry lock and a hard max-drawdown halt are built into the cBot. Cross a line and it stops opening — or flattens — for you, before the firm's rule bites.

Daily reset on the firm's clock

The daily-loss counter resets on the CE(S)T server day the prop firm uses to measure your daily loss — so the guard and the firm are counting the same day.

Always-on per-position stop

Every trade ships with a hard stop and risks only a small slice of balance — no single position can sink the account, and there is no un-stopped exposure at any moment.

Money management — the real edge

The strategies find the entries; the money-management layer decides how much lives and dies on each one. It ships calibrated, and it's the part that keeps the account.

Per-sleeve ATR trailing & breakeven

Each sleeve manages its own exit: an ATR-scaled trail locks in a winner and a breakeven move takes risk off once a trade is working — so open profit isn't handed back.

Asset & global risk caps

A per-asset cap stops any one market concentrating risk; a global cap bounds the summed risk-to-stop across every open position. Raise the master risk scale and the caps still hold.

EMA balance protection

An optional balance-EMA guard (off by default) trails your account balance and pauses new risk if it slips below its own moving average — a soft floor under a bad streak.

Tier presets

Guardian, Balanced and Edge are three presets of the same engine — the risk scale, position cap and guard thresholds that reproduce each tier. Pick a preset, keep the defaults, reproduce the number. All parameters →

The costs, declared

  • Backtested with a fixed 2-pip spread plus commission and swap — a deliberately honest, not idealised, cost stack.
  • Commission and overnight swap are applied per instrument, including triple-swap days — the real financing a live account pays.
  • Costs vary between brokers and prop firms. Your spread, swap and commission won't match ours to the decimal — so we hand you the tool to check.
  • Verify with the free edition on your own account's data before you pay: run the full backtest on your broker's costs and see where you land.
Release v3.0

What is new in the funded line

All three cBots were re-tested end to end in cTrader over the same window and the same costs. The weakest sleeve in each book was replaced by a decorrelated one, and the sleeves most exposed to a single parameter choice now run as a robustness ensemble — the same strategy at three neighbouring settings at a third of the risk each — so the book never bets on one exact number.

Guardian+104.8% → +115.9%max DD −3.43% → −3.18% Balanced+218.3% → +233.9%max DD −3.97% → −4.18% Edge+311.1% → +330.8%max DD −5.89% → −5.76%

Everything that changed in v3.0

Prices are unchanged: you are charged per distinct strategy, and the ensemble slots are that spread, not new edges. Balanced is the one honest trade-off in the release: its drawdown widens slightly (−3.97% → −4.18%) for a materially larger return. Already own a v2.0? The update is free on the cTrader Store.

Free to verify

Don't trust us. Backtest it yourself — free.

Every system comes with a free, backtest-only edition. Load it in cTrader's own Backtester and Optimizer and reproduce every published number on your own broker's data — run your own optimizations, stress it, watch the bad months — before you pay a cent or risk a funded account. Same engine, same strategies, same risk management as the paid version; it simply can't place a live or demo trade, by design.

01 · Get it free

The free edition

Guardian, Balanced and Edge each get a free, backtest-only edition — launching on the cTrader Store, each currently under review. Follow my cTrader profile for the drop. No card, no trial clock.

02 · Verify & optimize

Run it yourself

Reproduce the headline numbers on m1 data, run cTrader's own optimizer, change the risk — on your own account's data, not on a screenshot of ours.

03 · Then decide

Buy only if it holds up

Convinced by your own backtest? The paid edition unlocks live trading on a real or demo FTMO account. Not convinced? You've lost nothing.

Follow my cTrader profile for the free editions →
Watch it done

See how easy it is to backtest in cTrader.

A full walkthrough of each system in cTrader's own backtester — install the free edition, set the period, hit run, reproduce the exact numbers. Click a video to play it right here.

Guardianhow to backtest in cTrader
Balancedhow to backtest in cTrader
Edgehow to backtest in cTrader
Go deeper

Everything else — on its own page.

The landing is the short version. Each topic below opens its full detail: the receipts, the model, and the disclaimers — kept off this page so it stays about the systems.

01 · Proof

Parity & the receipts

Per-strategy signal parity, measured cell-by-cell — plus the cTrader-native run you re-run yourself.

 02 · Methodology

How it's built & validated

Five years, 30% held out-of-sample, real per-symbol costs — the mining-and-validation pipeline, line by line.

 03 · Parameters

Every configurable knob

Presets, per-sleeve on/risk/sides, risk caps, guards and balance protection — with ranges and defaults.

 04 · Safety

Account safety & anti-copy

Per-account uniqueness that keeps your trade stream your own — and the strategy families inside.

 05 · FAQ

Questions a skeptic asks

Accounts, prop-firm & FTMO rules, refunds, live track record, running it 24/7 — answered plainly.

 06 · Custom

Built to your mandate

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You shouldn't have to trust a screenshot.

Backtest any system yourself with its free edition, run one in cTrader's free 24/7 cloud, or reach out for a custom one. Either way, the numbers come with a way to check them — for free, before you pay.

See my cBots on cTrader →
The three systems are live on the cTrader Store — free backtest editions coming soon.