Prop Firm Control
The all-in-one read-only cockpit for funded traders: it shows every prop-firm number the way the firm measures it — and never touches your trades. It places, modifies and closes nothing.
See it on the chart
Why it adds value
A funded trader's fear isn't the market: it's breaking a rule without noticing. Prop Firm Control docks into cTrader, reads your account once per second and turns raw equity into the exact buffers the firm watches — with zero risk of the tool itself breaking a rule, because it doesn't trade.
Read-only by design
Declared AccessRights.None: it physically cannot open, modify or close orders. It only reads and renders. Zero risk of the plugin breaching a rule.
Safe Loss Left
The one number that ends the challenge: min(daily-loss room, max-DD room), which rule binds now, the exact equity where you're out and a “+N average losses = breach”.
Am I going to get paid?
A 🟢/🟡/🔴 verdict fusing minimum days, consistency, drawdown cushion and pace — and it names the current blocker. Plus the consistency governor (“bank ≤ X today”).
Rule reconciliation
Re-derives the broker's numbers and proves they match to the cent (floating, gross+swap+commission=net, the day-start anchor) → a green “reconciled to the cent” badge or a flag on the diverging line.
Video — how the plugin works
Prop Firm Control v1.1 — the risk cockpit in cTraderOpens on YouTube (channel @realbacktesting).
Free vs Premium — clear differences
The Free is a complete risk & compliance monitor (not a trial). Premium adds the performance analyzer and the alerts engine.
| Capability | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Risk tab (live) | ||
| Equity/balance/floating, daily·max·profit gauges, permitted-loss | Yes | Yes |
| Safe Loss Left + breach banner that names the rule | Yes | Yes |
| Trailing max-loss projector · exposure · per-position cards · margin · sessions | Yes | Yes |
| Stop-for-the-day / cool-off (non-blocking nudge) | Yes | Yes |
| Compliance tab | ||
| Get-paid scorecard + consistency governor + rule reconciliation | Yes | Yes |
| Trading days vs minimum · consistency · win rate · target progress + ETA | Yes | Yes |
| Performance tab (analyzer) | ||
| 16-KPI grid · P/L curve · daily bars · by-asset · by-day/hour | — | Yes |
| Trade analysis · monthly calendar · filterable history · 3 cross-filter layers | — | Yes |
| Alerts | ||
| Sound · popup · email on breach, warning, near-stop-out, streak, overtrade, naked-SL, target | — | Yes |
Configurable parameters — full reference (31)
Firm presets fill the rules in one click; every limit is editable for any prop firm. Expand each group.
1 · Account & preset 6 params
| Parameter | Default | Values | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Title (account label) | Prop Firm Control | text | The big panel title. |
| Challenge phase | Phase1 | Phase1 · Phase2 · Funded | Sets the profit target (≈10% / ≈5% / payout when funded). |
| Firm preset (rule defaults) | FTMO_Challenge | FTMO_Challenge · _Verification · _Funded · Custom | One-click rule defaults (daily 5% / max 10% static); Custom = manual. |
| Initial balance (0 = auto) | 0 | ≥0 | Starting balance; 0 auto-detects it (balance − realised). |
| Min trading days (0 = off) | 4 | 0–60 | Minimum trading-days requirement shown in Compliance. |
| Consistency limit % (0 = off) | 0 | 0–100 | Consistency cap (best day as % of profit). |
2 · Profit / payout target 2 params
| Parameter | Default | Values | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Target mode | PctOfInitial | PctOfInitial · Amount · Off | How the target is expressed. |
| Target value | 10 | ≥0 | Target value (profit, or payout when funded). |
3 · Daily loss 7 params
| Parameter | Default | Values | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily basis | PctOfInitial | PctOfInitial · PctOfDayStartBalance · Amount | How the daily limit is computed. |
| Daily value | 5 | ≥0.1 | Daily-loss limit magnitude. |
| Daily reference | MaxOfBoth | DayStartBalance · DayStartEquity · MaxOfBoth | Day-start anchor (balance, equity or the higher — FTMO-style). |
| Include floating in daily | true | bool | Count open floating P&L toward the daily loss (as firms do). |
| Reset hour / minute | 0 / 0 | 0–23 / 0–59 | Hour/minute the trading day rolls over. |
| Timezone id (blank = CE(S)T) | "" | e.g. Europe/London | Zone driving the daily reset and all displayed times. |
4 · Max loss 4 params
| Parameter | Default | Values | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Max basis | PctOfInitial | PctOfInitial · Amount | Max-loss limit as % of initial or fixed amount. |
| Max value | 10 | ≥0.1 | Max-loss limit magnitude. |
| Max DD mode | Static | Static · Trailing · TrailingLockAtInitial | Static floor, trailing, or trailing-then-lock-at-initial. |
| Trailing basis | LiveEquityPeak | LiveEquityPeak · EndOfDayBalancePeak | What the trailing floor trails off. |
6 · Alerts 10 params PREMIUM
| Parameter | Default | Values | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warn at % of DAILY limit | 70 | 10–100 | Daily-loss warning threshold. |
| Warn at % of MAX limit | 70 | 10–100 | Max-loss warning threshold. |
| Stop-out warn level % (margin) | 300 | 50–5000 | Margin level at which the near-stop-out alert fires. |
| Loss-streak alert (trades) | 4 | 2–20 | Consecutive losers that trigger the streak alert. |
| Overtrade alert (×avg/day) | 2.0 | 1.2–10 | Multiple of average daily trades that triggers overtrade. |
| Cool-off minutes after loss streak v1.1 | 20 | 0–240 | Length of the post-streak cool-off countdown. |
| Email alerts to / from (blank = off) | "" | Alert email recipient/sender (Gmail requires it to match the account). | |
| Sound / Popup alerts | true / true | bool | Local alert channels. |
7 · Display 1 param
| Parameter | Default | Values | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily P&L chart days | 12 | 3–60 | How many days the daily P/L mini chart shows. |
Quick usage manual
Dock the cockpit and watch it compute your rules in two minutes.
Install the plugin
From the cTrader Store add Prop Firm Control (Free or Premium). It appears as a dockable WebView plugin; open it and anchor it wherever you like (it's resizable).
Pick your firm and phase
Set Firm preset = FTMO_Challenge (or whatever applies) and Challenge phase. That fills the rules; for another firm switch to Custom and edit the limits.
Set the start and timezone
Leave Initial balance = 0 (auto) unless you want to pin it. Set Reset hour and Timezone id to your firm's daily reset (blank = CE(S)T, FTMO's).
Set the drawdown mode
Choose Max DD mode for your account: Static, Trailing or TrailingLockAtInitial. The trailing projector only shows on trailing accounts.
Read the cockpit
Risk tab: watch Safe Loss Left and the gauges for how much room you have today. Compliance tab: the scorecard tells you if you're on track to get paid and what's blocking you.
Enable alerts (Premium)
In the Alerts group set your thresholds (warning %, streak, overtrade) and channels (sound/popup/email). Email uses your cTrader SMTP. Each alert fires once on crossing and re-arms itself.
Honest notes
- Read-only by design. It is a plugin with
AccessRights.None: it cannot open, modify or close orders. It only reads the account and renders numbers. - Not affiliated with any prop firm. Firm names (FTMO…) are referenced only for rule compatibility; an independent tool, not financial advice.
- The numbers are your own account — equity, balance and history are read live from your connected cTrader account. Presets are a shortcut; every limit is editable.
- Email is sent through your own cTrader SMTP (plain text); sound and popup work out of the box.
- The daily reset survives reloads because the day-start anchor is reconstructed from closed-trade history.