Compare
The things that breach accounts, side by side.
Prop Logician against a plain trade manager and doing it by hand. No names, just the rows that matter.
| What | Prop Logician | A plain trade manager | By hand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily and max loss lockout, enforced on the terminaleven with the app closed | ✓Closes everything 0.5% of the account before the firm's daily limit and at 90% of the max; the EA does it alone | ◐Shows drawdown or alerts; rarely locks, never per program | ✗You watch the number |
| Flat before restricted newsfrom the firm's calendar | ✓Closes affected trades at T−3, refuses entries in the window | ◐Some alert; none know which phase the rule applies to | ✗You set an alarm |
| Closed before the weekend and long breaksper the program | ✓3 minutes before the session ends, shown all day | ✗ | ◐If you remember |
| The reset trapfloating losses at the reset | ✓Closes only what would lock tomorrow, 60 s before | ✗ | ✗ |
| Knows the programChallenge, Verification, funded; Standard, Swing | ✓Rules follow the phase slider: the phase you set is the one in force | ✗ | ◐In your head |
| Rule packs per firm, verified and datedupdated without reinstalling | ✓Quotes from the firm's pages, checked by script | ✗ | ◐You read the FAQ |
| Risk fixed before the clicklots from the stop line | ✓Percent, money or lots; split across orders | ✓Most do this well | ◐A calculator tab |
| Pre-flight checksgap, sizing, hedge, best day, margin | ✓Warn, confirm or refuse with the reason | ◐Margin at best | ✗ |
| Keeps the lockout when MT5 is on another accountbackstop stops on the broker's server | ✓Stops sized so every one hit still ends above the lockout; an alarm when an account is left open | ✗ | ✗ |
| Manual tools and hotkeysbreak-even, swing, candle, locks, partials, pass now, flatten | ✓Fourteen tools, chart and global hotkeys, lock switch | ✓Usually | ✗ |
| Journal from the accountMAE/MFE, screenshots, setups, score | ✓Written automatically, all accounts in one place | ✗A separate journaling subscription | ◐A spreadsheet |
| Compliance report per phaserules, trades, events | ✓A PDF in one click | ✗ | ✗ |
| Self-tested at every startthe guard's maths and the bridge | ✓300+ checks; a failure is shouted | ✗ | ✗ |
✓does it◐partly, or only if you remember✗doesn't