My Funded Futures Automation: What the Rules Say

Before any alert or bot trades a My Funded Futures (MFFU) account, read what MFFU itself says. This guide quotes MFFU's official help center as we read it on 17 September 2026, lists what you still need to confirm for your plan, and explains prop-firm risk discipline in general terms. It is not a setup guide for automating MFFU accounts.

Check your firm's current rules before automating. Policies change.

Read MFFU's Fair Play and Prohibited Trading Practices page in full, browse the MyFundedFutures Help Center for your plan's rules, and ask MFFU support if your setup isn't clearly covered. Roboquant Connect isn't endorsed by MFFU or any other prop firm, and no connector can make a strategy follow a firm's rules for you.

What MFFU's Fair Play Page Says About Automation

MFFU's Fair Play and Prohibited Trading Practices page has a section on automated trading. As of 17 September 2026 it says:

Automated strategies, with a condition. "Traders may make use of automated trading strategies tailored to their own specific settings so long as these automated tools do not aim to exploit the favorable fills offered in the Simulated Environment."
No high-frequency trading. "High-frequency Trading is not allowed" on MFFU's plans.
No copy trading between traders. Traders may not copy trade one another; each trader has to manage their own trade executions.

The same page lists other prohibited practices and the consequences of breaking them. Read all of it: a strategy can break a conduct rule whether a person or an alert places the order.

What That Wording Leaves for You to Check

The page doesn't name tools, platforms or setups, so it doesn't tell you whether a specific TradingView alert connector is acceptable on your account. Confirm with MFFU:

Does the automated-trading wording cover alert-based execution through a third-party service, on your plan and account type?
Could your strategy be seen as exploiting simulated fills? A strategy whose edge depends on fills that would be unlikely in a live market is exactly what the condition above targets. If your backtest or evaluation results rely on very small targets or perfect fills, treat that as a warning.
Which platform does your account run on? Roboquant Connect only works with Tradovate accounts.
Can you send one signal to several of your own accounts? The page covers copy trading between traders; ask how MFFU treats multiple accounts held by one trader.
Does your strategy follow the page's other trading rules? As of 17 September 2026 the page also says:
- "Traders trading live accounts with automated trading must abide by CME guidelines."
- "Tier 1 Economic Data Trading: Engaging in trades during tier 1 economic data releases is restricted."
- "Slippage and Bracket Usage: Exploiting the absence of slippage and utilizing tight brackets to gain from favorable fills are not permitted."
What are your plan's loss, drawdown and contract limits, and how are they measured? These are on MFFU's plan and evaluation pages.

Save a dated copy of the pages and any support answer you rely on.

Prop-Firm Risk Discipline, Explained

These are general concepts, not MFFU's definitions. Each firm sets its own numbers and calculations.

Daily loss limit. A cap on losses in one trading day. Firms differ on whether open positions count and when the day resets.
Static drawdown. A floor measured from your starting balance that doesn't move.
Trailing drawdown. A floor that follows your account's highs upward and never moves down, so profits you give back count against it. Firms differ on whether it tracks closed balance or open equity, and on when it stops trailing.
Contract limits. A maximum position size, sometimes tied to account size or plan.
Conduct rules. Practices the firm prohibits regardless of whether you are profitable.

The discipline is the same for manual and automated trading: size positions so a normal losing streak stays far from the drawdown floor, stop well before the daily limit, and know exactly how to flatten a position if something goes wrong. To put numbers on the first habit, the free position size calculator turns account size, risk per trade and stop distance into a contract count and checks it against the drawdown and daily-loss figures you enter.

Risk Tools That Back Up Your Discipline

If you trade manually or only automate accounts where the rules clearly allow it, a few habits help:

Write your own limits down as numbers tighter than the firm's: a daily stop, a maximum contract count, a list of instruments you trade.
Test on a demo account first. Run any automation end to end on a demo account before it touches an evaluation or funded account.
Keep a way to stop everything and know how to flatten positions on your platform.

For Tradovate accounts where the firm's rules permit alert-based automation, Roboquant Connect has per-account controls you can set tighter than the firm's limits: max daily loss, max daily trades (50 per day by default), allowed symbols and a kill switch. They work differently from a prop firm's own limits. The daily loss control counts realized P&L only and resets at 00:00 UTC, and the kill switch blocks every order, including exits, without closing open positions. The Apex Trader Funding automation guide has a table comparing each firm limit with Connect's control.

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Only If Your Account's Rules Allow It

Roboquant Connect sends TradingView alerts to Tradovate accounts as orders. Use it only on accounts where the firm's current rules allow that kind of automation, and start on a demo account (setup guide).

Automated trading involves risk of loss.

My Funded Futures Automation: What the Rules Say and What to Check