For prop traders
Your challenge shouldn't end in fifteen emotional minutes
Prop-firm challenges publish their fail conditions in advance. Nobody fails because the rules surprised them — they fail because, under pressure, they do the thing they knew was disqualifying. Risk Marshal enforces personal limits that sit inside the firm's, so a bad day costs you a session rather than the account.
Mapping firm rules to enforced rules
Firm rule
Maximum daily loss / daily drawdown
What you enforce with Risk Marshal
Set a personal daily loss limit at roughly half the firm's number. When it's hit, Risk Marshal stops new trades for the rest of the day — long before the firm's line is in sight.
Firm rule
Maximum total / overall drawdown
What you enforce with Risk Marshal
Cap per-trade risk and lot size so a normal losing streak can't reach the total line, and use loss-streak lockouts to stop the streak that would.
Firm rule
Minimum trading days
What you enforce with Risk Marshal
Session filters and trade caps keep you trading your plan across the required days instead of forcing the target in one reckless session.
Firm rule
Consistency / lot-size rules
What you enforce with Risk Marshal
Lot-size enforcement keeps position sizing uniform, which is exactly what consistency rules are checking for — no finish-line oversize.
Firm rule
News-trading restrictions
What you enforce with Risk Marshal
News blackout windows block trading around high-impact events you've chosen to avoid.
Firm rule
Prohibited instruments or sessions
What you enforce with Risk Marshal
Instrument and market restrictions plus session windows keep you inside the boundaries you've configured.
Why we don't publish each firm's numbers
You'll find plenty of sites listing exact drawdown percentages for every prop firm. We don't, for a simple reason: those terms change, and a stale number on our site could cost you an account. The firm's current rulebook is the only authority worth trusting — read it, then configure your personal limits inside it.
Risk Marshal works with any MT5 account, so the firm you use matters far less than whether your own limits are actually enforced. See broker and platform compatibility.
Before you start
Confirm your firm permits EA-based risk tooling on your account type. Most allow risk-management EAs — Risk Marshal doesn't place trades, copy trades, or automate a strategy; it constrains yours — but the rulebook is theirs, not ours, so check it first.
Start with the numbers.Size a personal daily limit that sits inside your firm's, then read why challenges actually fail.