Straight answer
No — and not because a firm disallows it. The conflict is arithmetic. Prop rules cap how far an account may be down at any instant, measured on floating equity. A recovery cycle is designed to sit in floating drawdown while it works. The two cannot both be satisfied, so the cycle breaches the rule long before it finishes doing the thing it exists to do.
That applies to our EA too. We do not support funded or challenge accounts, and it is the one requirement on the setup guide written as a hard exclusion rather than a preference.
| Rule | What the firm requires | What a recovery cycle does |
|---|---|---|
| Daily drawdown cap | Typically 4–5% of the account, measured from the day's starting balance or equity, reset at the daily rollover | A recovery cycle can be several percent down and completely healthy — that is the state it is designed to trade its way out of |
| Overall drawdown cap | Typically 8–12%, and on many firms it trails your highest equity rather than sitting still | The whole point of laddering is that the position gets worse before it gets better. A trailing cap moves the finish line toward you while it does |
| How the breach is judged | On floating equity, tick by tick — not on closed trades | Floating loss is exactly what a recovery cycle carries. It is unrealised, it is temporary by design, and the rule does not care |
| What happens at the breach | The account is failed immediately, mid-position, with no chance to finish anything | Being closed at the worst moment is the single outcome a recovery strategy is built to avoid |
| Consistency and lot-size rules | Many firms cap the share of profit any one day may contribute, or the maximum lot relative to the account | A cycle that recovers closes a large position at once, which is precisely the shape those rules were written to reject |
Percentages above are the common shape of prop-firm rules rather than any one firm's terms. Read the rules of the firm you are actually with — several of them differ, and a trailing cap behaves very differently from a static one.
Roughly what a single ordinary gold cycle can be carrying at its deepest before it resolves. The cap is not a distant safety net — it sits inside normal operation.
One bad week, not one bad month. And on a trailing cap it shrinks every time the account makes a new high, so a good run makes the next drawdown harder to survive.
It needs to still be open when price comes back. Every prop rule above is a rule about closing you before that happens.
This is not our product, and pointing you at it costs us the sale. It is still the correct answer to the question you searched.
Each position knows in advance what it may cost, so the worst day is arithmetic rather than a hope. This is the shape prop rules were written around, and it is why so many funded-account EAs are simple breakout or trend systems.
Anything that adds size against the position is carrying an open-ended floating loss, which is the exact thing the equity rule measures. If the vendor will not tell you whether their EA adds to losers, assume it does.
Not because it is safer in general, but because it fits a daily cap. A strategy whose bad day is 2% survives a 5% rule; one whose bad day is 6% fails it eventually no matter how good it is over a year.
Then the drawdown rule is yours to set, which is the whole difference. The gold EA page sets out where this EA stops adding, where it stops laddering, and the share of balance at which it closes a losing side deliberately rather than waiting for a broker to do it. Those limits exist for the same reason prop rules do — the difference is that they are set to let a cycle finish rather than to end it.