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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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 · +171.7% ROI · ▼ −4.13% max drawdown · 2.76 Sharpe · 8 strategies · $160 one-time View system → Balanced — Balanced FTMO Swing cBot · +322.2% ROI · ▼ −5.26% max drawdown · 3.55 Sharpe · 12 strategies · $240 one-time View system → Edge — Aggressive FTMO Swing cBot · +472.4% ROI · ▼ −5.78% max drawdown · 3.96 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−4.13%−5.26%−5.78%
ROI · 5y (cTrader-native)171.7%322.2%472.4%
Sharpe · per day2.763.553.96
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.

Backtest equity · cTrader-native
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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 −4.13%, Balanced under −5.26%, Edge under −5.78% 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.
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.
Release v4.0

What is new in the funded line

A new book. All three cBots were re-mined and re-validated end to end, then re-tested in cTrader over a longer window — 04/01/2021 to 30/08/2026, five years and eight months — on the same flat 2-pip spread the previous generation was measured on, so the two are comparable line by line.

Guardian+115.9% → +171.7%max DD −3.18% → −4.13% Balanced+233.9% → +322.2%max DD −4.18% → −5.26% Edge+330.8% → +472.4%max DD −5.76% → −5.78%

Everything that changed in v4.0

Prices are unchanged: you are charged per distinct strategy, and there are as many as before. Already own an earlier version? The update is free on the cTrader Store. The line is now at v4.0: v3.1 to v3.3 changed the engine and left the book alone, while v4.0 is a new book — every figure above is that new book — see "What changed" on any product page.

Previous release — v3.0 · July 2026

The generation before this one. The weakest sleeve in each book was replaced by a decorrelated one, and the sleeves most exposed to a single parameter choice ran as a robustness ensemble — the same strategy at three neighbouring settings, a third of the risk each.

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%
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.

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