TradeWarden next to 16 rival tools
Every mark comes from the product's own page: MQL5 Market, the vendor's site or its help center. A feature counts only when the page lists it clearly.
- 51 of the 54 features compared are in TradeWarden
- 7 more that none of these tools lists
The 16 tools side by side, feature by feature58 trade-manager and guard features from each product page, next to TradeWarden
FTM Forex Trade Manager · TA Trade Assistant · TP TradePanel · PS Position Sizer · TA38 Trade Assistant 38 in 1 · DDL DrawDown Limiter · Yeti Yeti RiskManager Pro · PFRG Prop Firm Risk Guardian · CG Challenge Guardian · K1 KontrolOne · 7S Seven Trading Sins · DG DisciplineGuard Pro · RMP Risk Manager Pro · TSX TopstepX's risk tools · TR TradeReign · MER Meridian. ✓ = the product's own page lists it; · = it does not, or not clearly enough to count. Pages read 5–7 October 2026. The table compares what a trade manager and a prop-firm guard do; some tools list much more (chart indicators, small utilities), named under the table.
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| Feature | TradeWarden | FTM | TA | TP | PS | TA38 | DDL | Yeti | PFRG | CG | K1 | 7S | DG | RMP | TSX | TR | MER |
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| Trade manager | |||||||||||||||||
| Lot from your risk (% or money) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · |
| Fixed lots | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Stop from ATR | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · |
| Entry, stop and target lines with money | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Break-even, partial closes, several targets | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Trailing stops | ✓6 kinds | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Hidden stop and target | ✓+ server emergency stop | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| OCO / straddle | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Pending orders that expire | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| StopLimit orders | ✓ | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Hidden pending orders (the broker sees nothing) | ✓ | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Grid orders: one plan split into several limits | ✓the risk split; the rest deleted when the first trade closes | · | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Time stop (close after N minutes) | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Hotkeys | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Close all / winners / losers / buys / sells | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · |
| Prop-firm guard | |||||||||||||||||
| Daily loss lock | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · |
| Max drawdown (static, trailing, end-of-day trailing) | ✓all three | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · |
| Weekly / monthly loss caps | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · |
| Prop-firm presets | ✓7, rules shown with source and date | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ (6) | ✓ (5) | ✓ (4) | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| No trade that breaches a limit if every open stop is hit | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Cap on the total open risk | ✓+ FundedNext's 3 % | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Cap on one symbol's or position's open loss | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Max lot per trade, max open positions | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · |
| Daily profit lock | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · |
| Lock after giving back part of the day's profit | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · |
| Challenge target and trading days | ✓+ best-day rule | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| News filter | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · |
| Weekend / end-of-day close | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Trading hours | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · |
| Trading days, one direction only | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Only listed symbols | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · |
| A refused close is retried until flat | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Monitor-only mode | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| A lock signal other EAs can read | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Other EAs' charts closed while locked, opened again after | ✓if you turn it on | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Anti-tilt (Live Guard) | |||||||||||||||||
| Pause after a losing trade | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pause after N losses in a row | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · |
| Max trades a day or an hour, minutes between trades | ✓all three | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| No bigger trade after a loss | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ |
| No adding to a losing trade | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · |
| A stop moved away is put back | ✓+ a strike | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | · |
| Stepped response: warn, pause, stop for the day | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ |
| Looser settings start tomorrow | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · |
| A break you choose, with no undo | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · |
| A password to unlock | ✓it opens once, then clears | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · |
| Pre-trade checklist ¹ | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Accountability partner alerts | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| A discipline score: each day, and a grade for the week | ✓every point with its reason | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ |
| Journal and reports | |||||||||||||||||
| Every closed trade in a log file | ✓CSV, with R | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · |
| Screenshots at a trade's open and close | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Weekly report | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Last 7 days / period statistics | ✓ | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · |
| Daily summary | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Alerts, layout, proof | |||||||||||||||||
| Phone push or Telegram | ✓both | · | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · |
| Warning before the limit | ✓50 % and 80 % | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| A simple view, every tool one click away ² | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| A light theme | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
| Published test report with every run | ✓ | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · | · |
¹ Checklist-only products exist (DisciplineManager Behavioral Trade Panel, Entry Discipline Checklist Pro).
² DrawDown Limiter's dashboard adapts between wide, standard, dense and minimal layouts; Position Sizer and Simple Trading Manager fold into a small tab. None offers a simple view with the full tool one click away.
Not in TradeWarden (3 features the table compares, each on one of these pages or on Ultimate Trade Manager's): a trade copier (sold as separate products), indicators and market analysis (TA38), and control from a phone app (Ultimate Trade Manager).
Beyond the table, Trade Assistant 38 in 1's page (v6.54, read 2026-10-07) lists more that TradeWarden does not have, for example: copy or reverse a trade in one click, close by a counter position, price and trend-line alerts, scheduled orders for when the market is closed, and chart tools (supply and demand zones, Fibonacci levels, trading sessions, a countdown, a watermark). Forex Trade Manager's page (v3.70, read the same day) lists finer steps than the table counts: break-even in up to 4 levels (TradeWarden: 3), trailing in up to 4 levels, limit pullback orders and splitting a large trade. TradeWarden guards and manages the trades you take by hand or from other EAs; it does not trade on its own, copy trades or analyse the market.