Guardian FTMO Swing — verifiable 8-strategy prop-firm cBot for cTrader
Guardian FTMO Swing
The narrowest drawdown band — built to verify, not to brag.
Why it adds value
It's not a promise: it's a cTrader-native backtest (m1, real commission and swap) you reproduce yourself, with a free edition to verify it before paying. Proof over promises.
Verifiable and reproducible
Every Store figure redraws in your own cTrader with the exact recipe. A free backtest-only edition lets you check it without paying.
Multi-strategy book
8 decorrelated strategies across 5 markets in a single cBot — each isolated by its label and validated separately.
Prop-firm guards
Money-management with a daily-loss guard, entry lock, drawdown halt and per-asset & global risk caps. The drawdown band is the real lever.
Backtest↔live parity
The same signal engine in backtest and live. The anti-copy uniqueness (60–120 s jitter) acts only on live/demo, never in backtest: you reproduce the exact figure.
What changed in v3.0
Both columns are the cBot's OWN cTrader backtest over the same window, on the same costs — the version you may already own, and the one on sale now. Reproduce either yourself with the free edition.
| Metric | v2.0 | v3.0 |
|---|---|---|
| ROI | +104.8% | +115.9% |
| Profit factor · per trade | 1.49 | 1.55 |
| Max DD · equity | −3.43% | −3.18% |
| Calmar · CAGR/DD | 4.07 | 4.73 |
| Trades | 2,546 | 3,215 |
Watch it in action
A full walkthrough in cTrader's own backtester — install the free edition, set the period, hit run, and reproduce the exact numbers yourself.
Opens on YouTube (channel @realbacktesting).
Strategies — composition
8 decorrelated sleeves, each isolated by its label. We show market, archetype family and timeframe — enough to understand the book, without revealing the alpha.
What stays proprietary: the entry/exit rules, the indicators and their parameters, the thresholds, the stops/targets and the exact per-sleeve weights are not published. The above is portfolio context, not a copyable recipe.
Money management — funding-ready
The strategies find the entries; the money-management layer decides how much lives and dies on each one. It ships calibrated to reproduce the published figure.
Contained drawdown
Max equity drawdown held to −3.18% across the full 5-year backtest — well inside FTMO's limits, so a rough week doesn't end the account.
Per-sleeve ATR trail & 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.
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.
EMA balance protection
An optional balance-EMA guard (off by default) pauses new risk if your balance slips below its own moving average — a soft floor under a bad streak.
Guardian, Balanced and Edge are three presets of the same engine. Keep the preset's defaults and you reproduce the tier's number. See every configurable parameter →
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. Today it's $160 (8 × $20).
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 this portfolio would read $600 — so early access is a real discount, not a countdown gimmick.
Free edition (backtest-only)
The paid cBot has a free “Backtesting only” twin: the identical full portfolio — same strategies, markets, engine, parameters and parity — compiled with a lock.
- The cTrader Backtester and Optimizer run the FULL logic → you reproduce every published figure on your broker's data before paying.
- In real time (live and demo) the free edition prints a notice and stops: it cannot place a single order.
- It's a try-before-you-buy funnel published as a separate $0 Store product; the paid edition unlocks live/demo trading.
Quick usage manual
From install to reproducing the published figure.
Verify first with the free edition
Install the Guardian — Backtesting only (free) edition and run the Backtester with the recipe: m1 (opening prices) · additive base 80,000 EUR · commission auto. You should see the published figure.
Buy and install the full edition
Add Guardian FTMO Swing ($160) from the cTrader Store to your account.
Attach to ONE H1 chart
The cBot manages all symbols and timeframes (H1–D1) internally. Attach it to a single H1 chart of any symbol; it opens the rest.
Check the symbol mapping
If your broker uses different names/suffixes, set them in Symbol overrides (e.g. USATECHIDXUSD=US100.cash). It auto-maps raw/ECN suffixes.
Account and sizing
Use an FTMO Swing account in EUR. Default: Additive sizing with an 80,000 base. Adjust Initial balance or the Risk scale for your account size.
Pick the preset (optional)
Leave the Guardian preset as shipped, or read the parameters page to understand every guard before you touch a dial.
Honest notes
- Figures are a cTrader-native backtest (m1, fixed 2-pip spread, real commission and swap), reproducible in your cTrader. See proof →
- A 30% of the history is held out-of-sample (OOS) and never touched.
- Costs vary between brokers and prop firms — your spread, swap and commission won't match ours to the decimal. Verify with the free edition on your own account.
- Requires an FTMO Swing account (holds positions over the weekend and trades through news). On a Classic/non-Swing account it may breach rules.
- The anti-copy uniqueness (60–120 s jitter) acts only on live/demo, never in backtest → you reproduce the exact figure.
- Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, FTMO. “FTMO Swing” is a published account type, used only to state compatibility.