What gets attached after the fill
Manual Trade Guard places the stop-loss, moves the trade to breakeven when that rule hits, and scales out at TP1, TP2, TP3, and TP4. The point of four partials is to take risk off without a new market opinion on each click. If you start a free Venasri account, connect the FTMO login before the session so the first fill is not the test run.
The 2-Step daily line is 5% and the 1-Step daily line is 3%, both reset at 00:00 CE(S)T from the day-start balance plus floating profit and loss. A stop that risks more than the remaining daily cash is not protection. It is a scheduled breach. Size the stop to the cash you still have.
Four platforms, one request budget
FTMO lists MT5, MT4, cTrader, and DXtrade. Expert Advisors are allowed on all of them. The shared constraint is 2,000 order and modification requests a day. Four partial closes plus one breakeven move are a handful of requests. A trail that rewrites the stop every second is hundreds.
Count the edits you intend before New York. MT5 bot control is where that connection runs. If the strategy needs constant trailing, widen the step so the day stays under the ceiling. The static 10% floor will not matter if the account is flagged for hyperactivity at lunch.
MetaAPI Cloud when ZeroMQ is not the path
MetaAPI Cloud is the other way to reach the account. Use it when the terminal path is not the one you are running. Do not run both in a way that double-sends modifications. Duplicate edits are the fastest way to waste the 2,000-request budget.
The $100,000 evaluation fee is $540. That fee is not a request allowance. Phase 1 is still 10% and Phase 2 is still 5%, with at least four trading days. The setup exists so those targets are attempted with a stop already on the ticket.
Standard news windows and Swing's open weekend
On Standard funded accounts, new risk around a red-folder release is restricted in the 2-minute window before the print and the 2-minute window after it, and the book must be flat before the weekend. Swing lifts both restrictions and caps leverage at 1:30. Point Equity Guard at the daily percentage of the tier you hold, and do not let a Swing permission become a reason to leave the stop off.
A winning day with a large float still open at Prague midnight rebases the next daily allowance on the closed balance. Partial targets that actually close size before that clock are more useful than a target that only exists on the chart.
