A personal advisor is allowed and a grid is not
Risk managers and personal Expert Advisors are permitted. Martingale, the habit of increasing size after a loss, is banned. Grid stacking, a ladder of pending orders hoping the average saves the first fill, is banned. Those bans are rules, not style tips. An advisor whose recovery mode doubles the lot is a martingale even if the file name says otherwise. An advisor that keeps adding limit orders every 20 pips is a grid even if each order has a stop.
The platforms are MT5, cTrader, Match-Trader, and DXtrade. A tool that is quiet on MT5 and noisy on cTrader is still your tool. The 2,000-request day counts the server traffic, not the platform you prefer. Open a Venasri account and describe the advisor the way it behaves at a loss, because that is the version the firm will see.
Two thousand requests is a small number if you refresh a ladder
Twenty trades with a stop, a breakeven, and four partials are on the order of 120 purposeful requests. That is a normal day. A ladder of 20 pending orders replaced every 30 seconds for two hours is 20 times 240, which is 4,800, more than twice the cap. You do not need a high-frequency brand to get there. You need a refresh loop and a morning that felt choppy.
The cap is also why the grid ban and the counter reinforce each other. A grid's entire method is a stream of resting orders that must be moved. Even a grid small enough to feel safe on a 5 percent day can be illegal on the request counter, and a grid that somehow stayed under 2,000 requests would still be a banned structure. Bot controls should send a bracket and then wait for a fill, not poll a ladder.
A legal advisor still owes the 5 percent day
On $100,000 the 2-step day is $5,000 and the 1-step day is $3,000. An advisor risking $500 a trade can be fully allowed and still print the day if it takes ten losses, or six losses on the 1-step book. The request cap will not save you from that. It only saves the firm from a noisy order stream. Martingale would get there faster, which is why it is banned rather than merely discouraged.
Evaluations also lock the maximum at minus 5 percent once you are up 5 percent. An advisor that keeps trading the same size after that lock is trading a smaller room than the one in its settings. If the settings still assume a $90,000 floor after the account is at $105,000, the advisor is using a stale map. Update the floor the hour the lock happens.
Put the flatten outside the advisor's logic
The advisor's stop is one layer. Equity Guard should flatten a 2-step book near $4,250 on $100,000, and a 1-step book near $2,250. That flatten does not depend on the advisor agreeing that it is wrong. If the advisor is the thing that is wrong, the guard is the point. Keep the guard's own modifications inside the same 2,000-request budget. One close-all is a handful of requests. A guard that rewrites stops every second is a second offender.
News and the weekend still bind the advisor. Funded accounts have a 2-minute window unless an add-on is on. Weekend holding needs its own add-on on selected Instant tiers and is included on Swing tiers. An advisor that does not know the clock will trade the print and hold the Friday ticket. Encode the blackout and the flat, or turn the advisor off.
