How it works
How to set risk limits in cTrader with Propcockpit
Connect a cTrader account, arm three limits, and place orders through a ticket that sizes by risk and checks each one against those limits before the broker sees it. Five screens, in the order you meet them.
1. Connect cTrader, choose what to protect
The connection is cTrader’s official OAuth: you sign in at cTrader, and Propcockpit receives a grant that can read the account and place orders on it, and can never withdraw or transfer funds. Your broker password never touches this product. A grant can expose several Trading accounts; you choose which become Protected accounts, and only those are gated.
2. Arm the three limits
Max daily loss and Max total drawdown as a share of the Initial capital your firm issued, and Max open risk as the cap for one order. The FTMO preset fills the first two with one press and Save arms them, at least as strict as the firm’s own convention. Tightening a limit applies at once; loosening one waits for the next Daily reset, so a rule cannot be widened the moment it starts to hurt.
3. Size an order by risk
On the chart, drag the stop to where the trade is wrong and press a risk chip. The ticket returns the lots, the distance and the money, sized from the stop you set. The order it sends carries that stop to the broker, so what protects you sits at the venue rather than in a browser tab, and holds if your connection drops, or ours does. On Pro and Premium the ticket can also hold a stop loss on candle close inside that stop: a level that closes the trade only when a candle closes through it, not on a wick.
4. When an order would break a limit
Before the order is sent, its full cost to the stop is checked against the Buffer, against what is left of the total drawdown, and against the per-order cap. On a paid plan an order that does not fit is refused, and the refusal names the rule and the number rather than a red message that only says no. On the Free plan the same check is shown as an advisory and the order is still sent; that is the difference a paid plan buys.
A position you open directly in cTrader is read and counted rather than intercepted: it enters the Buffer arithmetic the moment it appears, and one that arrives without a stop is marked Unprotected rather than guessed at.
5. The day, at a glance
What is left of today’s allowance, what the account has done since the Daily reset, and what every open position costs if all the stops hit at once. FLATTEN ALL is one control, behind a two-step confirm, and it is the one action that stays available through a Lock, a stale feed and a paused platform, because closing only ever reduces risk.
What it does not do
It does not make an evaluation impossible to fail. The firm measures its rules on its own server, on its own feed, and an order placed outside Propcockpit is not gated. Auto-flatten, on Pro and Premium, executes as soon as the broker is reachable, never instantly, because nothing in a browser can close a position at a venue that is not answering. The documentation says exactly what each screen does, and pricing says what each plan includes.