PROP FIRM RISK ENGINE · NINJATRADER 8
Know your cushion before the market takes it.
Guardian watches trailing drawdown, daily loss limits and profit targets across every funded account you run, and locks an account the moment a rule is breached.
✦ Coming soon✦ Runs standalone✦ One-time price
ACCOUNTS WATCHED
ALL
LOCK RESPONSE
INSTANT
Why it exists
It watches the rule that ends your account
Trailing drawdown is the number that fails most evaluations, and it moves against you as your balance climbs. Guardian shows the live cushion in points and dollars for every account at once, so the limit is never something you work out after the fact.
Locking is automatic, and it sticks
When a limit is breached the account locks immediately rather than waiting for you to notice. The lock survives a restart, so a breach late in the session cannot be quietly forgotten by morning.
Every account, one board
Balance, daily P&L, open P&L, cushion and target progress for each account side by side. Running several evaluations at once is exactly when a per-account limit gets missed, and that is the case it is built for.
What Guardian does
It closes the trade, not just the door
When a limit is hit, Guardian cancels your working orders and closes open positions at market, then locks the account. It does not wait for you to notice, and it does not leave a position running behind a locked door. Anything that appears on a locked account afterwards is closed too.
- Working orders cancelled
- Open positions closed at market
- Account locked until the next trading day
Set your limits slightly inside your firm’s true line. If the firm fails you at −$500, set Guardian to −$480. Closing takes a moment, and the buffer absorbs it.
Multi-account monitoring
- Track your trading accounts from a single Control Center dashboard
- Live per-account view of balance, daily P&L, open P&L and drawdown cushion
- Custom aliases for every account — read
T150instead ofFTDFYL150243553516 - Every connected account watched simultaneously, in real time
Prop firm rule enforcement
- Daily loss limits set per account, with automatic locking when hit
- Trailing and static drawdown tracking, with the remaining cushion shown live
- Profit target monitoring with progress indicators
- Rules configured per account, so each evaluation can match its own firm’s requirements
Automatic account locking
- A breach is acted on within a fraction of a second — positions closed, orders cancelled, account locked, with nothing for you to do
- Lock All Today: one click closes every open position and locks every account for the rest of the day
- Locked accounts are blocked from opening new positions through the LucidTicks suite
- Locks persist across restarts, so a breach cannot be forgotten overnight
Real-time protection
- Continuously monitors positions and P&L as the market moves
- Auto-reconnect keeps monitoring alive through connection drops
- Accounts added after startup are picked up automatically — no restart needed
Built for funded traders
- Designed around the realities of funded accounts and evaluation rules
- At-a-glance status board: green means trading, locked means protected
- No pause button and no unlock button — a lock clears at the next trading day and not before, which is the point of it
Works with the rest of the suite
- Guardian publishes lock state for the rest of the LucidTicks suite to read, so tools that support it can refuse entries on a locked account
- Fully standalone: Guardian runs on its own and needs no other tools
Controls you reach for in the moment
- Flatten one account with a single click, without locking it, so you can carry on trading
- Flatten All closes every position and cancels every order across all accounts — confirms first, tells you the exact count, and greys out when there is nothing to close
- Lock yourself out of one account for the rest of the day, before you do something you regret
- If that account has a position open, Guardian offers to close it and lock in one step — rather than sending you away to close it manually, which is exactly the moment you might not
Warns you before it acts
- An amber caution appears as an account approaches a limit — 80% by default, and configurable
- Approaching a loss reads as a warning; approaching a profit cap reads as “consider stopping”
- Plain English throughout, not developer shorthand. Verbose logging is off by default, but anything you need to act on is always shown
- Follows your NinjaTrader theme, so the dashboard reads correctly on light and dark skins
What locking actually covers
Guardian closes positions on your behalf when a limit is hit. It can act on your account without you clicking anything — which is the point of it, but it means you should be certain your limits are right before you rely on it. Test on a simulation account first, and check your limits again after any change.
Two layers. Tools that check with Guardian refuse the entry outright, so the order is never sent. Anything else is caught the other way round: Guardian re-checks every locked account four times a second and closes whatever it finds, whether that came from a third-party strategy, an external copier or a manual order.
That second layer is a close, not a block. There is a short window between an order filling and Guardian closing it — typically under a second, including the round trip to your broker — so it is honest to call this containment rather than prevention. It is why we suggest setting your limits slightly inside your firm’s. If a position cannot be closed after several attempts, Guardian stops retrying and tells you plainly to close it yourself.
Protect the evaluation you paid for.
Guardian is finished and live-tested on funded accounts. It will be available to buy shortly. It is licensed through the NinjaTrader Ecosystem to your NinjaTrader account — buy once and it activates on any machine you sign into with that account. Nothing to register, no machine IDs to copy, and updates arrive in the members area.