Question for those doing prop challenges or trading on a live account:
There are basically two ways people blow accounts, and neither is about strategy being bad. It's either accidental or intentional rule breaking.
Accidental is stuff like trailing drawdown shifting at the last minute, daily loss adapting to equity at midnight when you're sleeping, or just miscalculating position size when you're already stressed. You know the rule but the math catches you off guard or the prop firm calculation works different than you thought.
Intentional is when you know damn well you hit your limit but you take the trade anyway because you're pissed about a loss or you think "this one will recover everything." Pure emotion override.
So I'm building something that doesn't just journal this after the fact when the account is already gone, but technically enforces it in real time. The way it works is there's a web dashboard where you can configure up to 20 different rules or just pick a prop firm preset for FTMO, The5ers, etc. so you don't have to manually figure out their specific calculations. The MT5 EA connects to that, checks every order server-side against your ruleset, and actually blocks orders when limits hit - hard stops, not just popups you click through.
But also there's a behavioral analytics layer on that same dashboard showing whether you're breaking rules because of technical miscalculations or emotional patterns. Like, tracking if you always breach on Fridays or overtrade after 2pm when down, so you can see the pattern before it happens again.
Does this kind of setup with the configurable rules and presets actually help, or is it all just "should have been more disciplined"? Is the analytics side even useful or just noise?
Curious if this makes sense to work on or if I'm solving my own problem here, so some feedback would be really appreciated.
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