Built by a trader who blew 800+ funded accounts

Discipline,
institutionalized.

PayoutGuard sits between you and your worst trading day. It connects to your broker and enforces your rules with the cold precision of a prop-desk risk manager — locking the session at your limits, flattening revenge trades, and protecting the payout you've earned.

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Built by a trader who blew 800+ funded accounts before building this

NT8 · MT4/MT5 · Tradovate · cTrader · Rithmic

5 min setup · protect your account today

PayoutGuard · Risk Desk● LIVE · NINJATRADER

Day P&L

+$1,184

Tilt Score

22/100

Payout Progress

86%

▲MNQ 06-26 long closed · +$34209:31:04

◆Profit target reached — trailing floor armed at $1,00009:31:09

⛔Re-entry on second account blocked & flattened09:42:51

✓Session protected · payout eligibility preserved09:42:56

🛡

SESSION SECURED — LOCKED UNTIL NEXT TRADING DAY

Your gains are banked. PayoutGuard will hold this line on every account.

Every other tool tells you to stop.

PayoutGuard makes it impossible not to.

Watching your trades is not enough. Blocking them at the broker level is.

PayoutGuard auto-flattened a session sliding past its loss limit12m agoSAVEDPayoutGuard locked in a big day before the give-back38m agoBANKEDPayoutGuard intercepted a revenge re-entry before it grew1h agoSAVEDPayoutGuard banked a green day at the profit target3h agoBANKEDPayoutGuard stopped a heavy tilt session before the account broke5h agoSAVEDPayoutGuard auto-flattened a session sliding past its loss limit12m agoSAVEDPayoutGuard locked in a big day before the give-back38m agoBANKEDPayoutGuard intercepted a revenge re-entry before it grew1h agoSAVEDPayoutGuard banked a green day at the profit target3h agoBANKEDPayoutGuard stopped a heavy tilt session before the account broke5h agoSAVED

Illustrative examples of PayoutGuard protection events

800+

Funded accounts blown by our founder before building this

73%

Traders blow accounts from emotional decisions — not bad strategy

5 min

Setup time to protect your funded account

Live Dashboard

Your account, protected
in real time.

Every trade monitored. Every rule enforced. All from one clean dashboard.

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PayoutGuard

Dashboard

Challenge

Journal

Analytics

Broker

Risk Calc

Overview

Journal

Analytics

Challenge

Broker

Apex · $50K

Balance

$52,860

Realized P&L

+$342

Total Trades

Tilt Score

23 / 100

Open Position

● MNQ 06-26

+ New Trade

MNQ 06-26 · May 2026 · 34 trades

Symbol	Date / Time	Side	Qty	Entry	Exit	P&L	Status
MNQ 06-26	May 18, 09:31	LONG	3	$18,692	—	+$342	OPEN
MNQ 06-26	May 17, 14:22	SHORT	2	$18,720	$18,680	+$200	Closed
MNQ 06-26	May 17, 11:08	LONG	1	$18,650	$18,605	-$90	Closed
MNQ 06-26	May 16, 15:44	SHORT	4	$18,790	$18,730	+$480	Closed
MNQ 06-26	May 16, 10:12	LONG	2	$18,600	$18,660	+$240	Closed
MNQ 06-26	May 15, 13:55	SHORT	3	$18,750	$18,790	-$240	Closed
MNQ 06-26	May 14, 14:30	LONG	2	$18,540	$18,610	+$100	Closed

7 of 34 trades · View all

Equity Curve

Challenge Rules

Daily loss limit23%

Max drawdown42%

Profit target95%

Min trading days70%

Payout Readiness

95%

2 rules pending · near threshold

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The Problem

You know this
feeling.

You're up $800 on the day. You're having your best week in months. You keep trading. One bad trade becomes two. Then three. You've given it all back — and then some.

73%

account blowups trace to emotional over-trading — not bad strategy

Post-peak

the most dangerous moment is right after you hit a profit high

returned after months of work — because of one bad day

The Story

Eight hundred accounts.
One lesson.

“After my 800th blown account I stopped asking what was wrong with my trading — and started asking what was wrong with my setup. Nothing was protecting me from myself.”

Sherffad

Founder, PayoutGuard · Boston, MA · Futures Trader

Tens of thousands in challenge fees. Hundreds of resets. For years I thought the problem was my strategy. It wasn't — my strategy was fine. My discipline wasn't. I'd hit my target, keep going, and give it all back before the close.

The turning point was watching a trader blow ten funded $50,000 accounts live, in a single tilt session. He wasn't a bad trader. He had no circuit breaker — nothing to stop him once emotion took the wheel. I watched it happen and thought: that's been me, dozens of times.

So I built the tool that didn't exist: one that connects to the broker and enforces the rules without requiring discipline in the moment. Something that treats me like the risk manager I couldn't be for myself.

PayoutGuard is that tool. I built it for myself first. Every serious funded trader needs it for the same reason: not because they can't trade — because no amount of willpower stops a revenge trade after a bad fill. A system does.

The System

How PayoutGuard
works

Set it up once. It watches your account so you don't have to.

Step 01

Set your trading rules

Enter your rules: daily loss limit, profit target, max drawdown. Works for any account type — 2 minutes.

Step 02PRO

Connect your broker

Import via CSV from any broker, or use our live bridge for MT4/MT5, NinjaTrader, and cTrader.

Step 03

Trade with protection

PayoutGuard monitors every trade and enforces your rules the moment a limit is hit — automatically.

Step 04

Grow your account

Hit your target, protect your gains, request your payout. Then reset, scale, and repeat.

Protection Suite

Everything you need to
protect your trading capital

Daily Profit Lock

Hit your daily profit target? Trading locks automatically. Keep every dollar earned — retail or prop.

Tilt Detection

Detects revenge trading before you blow up — 3 consecutive losses, rapid re-entries, accelerating sizes.

Instant Auto-Flatten

When limits are hit, all positions close in milliseconds. Works across forex, futures, stocks, crypto.

Risk Calculator

Position sizing for any instrument — forex lots, futures contracts, shares, crypto. Built in.

Challenge Tracker

Track FTMO, Funded Next, TopStep and more — or set custom targets for your retail or cash account.

Trade Journal & Analytics

Every trade logged with equity curve, win rate, avg RR, and behavioral tilt patterns over time.

Tilt Detection Engine

It knows when you're
about to blow up

The Tilt Score (0–100) measures revenge trading patterns in real time. At 60 you get a warning. At 80, PayoutGuard flattens everything before the damage is done.

60+

Warning

80+

Auto-Flatten

Tilt Score Triggers0–100

2 consecutive losing trades+20 pts

3 consecutive losing trades+40 pts

4+ consecutive losing trades+60 pts

6+ trades in 30 minutes+20 pts

Re-entering within 90s+10 pts

75%+ of daily limit used+15 pts

Universal Connectivity

Works with any broker

Import trades from any platform via CSV, or use our live bridge for real-time protection. No lock-in.

NinjaTrader 8✓ Live

Full auto-flatten + lock · TopStep, Apex, Earn2Trade & all Rithmic firms

TradovateBeta

Direct API — no EA needed · auto-flatten & lock via live sync (in beta verification)

MetaTrader 4 / MT5Beta

Forex, metals, indices — EA bridge · enter API key in popup (in beta verification)

cTraderBeta

cAlgo cBot · API key pre-loaded in download (in beta verification)

TradeStationBeta

Beta — protects strategy-placed trades on the chart · full account protection in development

Interactive BrokersComing Soon

Real-time TWS / IB Gateway bridge in development

TradingView✓ Live

Alert relay — triggers flatten & lock on your connected platform

CSV

Any Broker / CSV✓ Live

Import trade history from any platform · MT4, IBKR, TD Ameritrade + more

Pricing

Straightforward
pricing

7-day free trial on all plans. No hidden fees. Cancel any time.

Starter

$49/mo

Everything to trade smarter and protect your capital.

Trade journal (manual + CSV import)
Risk calculator (all instruments)
Analytics & equity curve
Challenge tracker (all prop firms)
Tilt score & alerts
Daily loss limit tracking
1 trading account
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Before you
ask.

Will this work with my prop firm?

Yes. PayoutGuard runs on YOUR trading platform — NinjaTrader, Tradovate, MT4/MT5, cTrader — so it works with TopStep, Apex, FTMO, Funded Next, Earn2Trade, and any firm that uses these platforms. It enforces your rules locally; the firm just sees disciplined trading.

Can I override a lock if I really want to trade?

Not in the moment — that's the point. Once a daily rule trips, the session is locked until the next trading day (6 PM ET). The trader who wants to override the lock is exactly the trader the lock exists for. You can adjust your limits any time you're NOT locked.

Do you have access to my money or my broker login?

No. PayoutGuard never holds funds and never asks for your broker password. The bridge runs inside your own platform with a key that can only report state and flatten/lock — it cannot withdraw, transfer, or open new positions.

What happens if my internet or PayoutGuard goes down?

The bridge runs on your machine inside your trading platform. If the connection to our servers drops, your platform keeps trading normally and protection resumes the moment the heartbeat reconnects — locks persist server-side, so a restart can't clear them.

How long does setup take?

About five minutes: create your account, set your rules, download the bridge for your platform, and you're protected. No coding — the file comes with your key already inside.

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to chance.

Join traders who protect their drawdown limits, track payout eligibility, and never blow a funded account from a bad day.

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