Bind Telegram to the FTMO login, not a demo leftover
A kill switch on the wrong account is how people flatten a personal book and leave the Challenge running. Link the bot to the same Venasri user as the FTMO MT5 connection. /account should show ~$100,000 (or your size), not a $500 demo. /positions should list the gold ticket you are afraid of.
Do not put /close in a group chat. Funded accounts are credentials.
4.25% auto, /close manual, $5,000 official
Set Venasri Equity Guard to flatten before the firm does. Telegram is for CPI you forgot, a 3-loss streak you can feel, a mobile spike you regret. activate Venasri free on your MT5 account and send /close on demo until /positions is empty. Then, and only then, trust it on the $540 Challenge.
Standard news: if you /close inside freeze level, retries still run. Watch the list. Do not spam /close 20 times and burn request budget.
Account protection
10016 on a close is rarer than on a stop, but freeze level during news is real. Wait for empty positions, not for a single Telegram ack.
After /close on FTMO, you are in the revenge window
If you already printed 10 trades, /close and stop. overtrading plus a kill switch used as a scalping tool is noise against a 4-day minimum.