From Read-Only Charts to Order Entry: Our Execution Controls
This article records our earlier read-only design and how it changed. Current versions support manual orders and optional strategy autopilot after explicit arming, with account and risk controls. The dated update separates current capabilities from the historical reasoning below.
Update — 11 September 2026. This article records an earlier decision to remove order entry. The current product supports manual orders and optional strategy autopilot on real accounts after explicit arming. Arming is not persisted, and account and risk controls apply. Confirm your firm permits your intended use before trading. The historical reasoning below is retained as a record of that earlier design, not a statement of current capabilities.
We built the order-entry code. Buy button, sell button, one-click bracket, drag your stop on the chart. It worked, and it felt good.
Then we took it out of the product — a decision we reversed a year later, for the reason set out at the top of this page.
This article is the full reasoning, because a decision like that deserves an explanation rather than a marketing line — and because if you trade a funded account, it is a decision you should be making consciously about every tool you install.
The short version. Prop firms restrict automated order placement. A third-party app that sends orders on your behalf sits inside that restriction, whether or not you think of it as a bot. Charting and analysis do not. So Senzoukria reads your account and never writes to it: you see your position, your stop, your target and your balance on the chart — and you place your trades in your broker's platform. Your funded account is worth more than two saved clicks.
What the rulebooks actually say
Almost every futures prop firm has a clause about automation. The wording varies, but the target does not: software that places or manages orders for you. Look for the words automated, algorithmic, bot, copy trading, and — the one that matters most — order.
Now notice what is not in those clauses. Reading data. Drawing charts. Computing indicators. Keeping a journal. Nobody has ever had an account closed for looking at a footprint chart, and nobody will. The firms are not protecting themselves from your eyes; they are protecting themselves from systems that trade while you are asleep.
The grey zone is bigger than people think
Here is where honest traders get caught. "I'm not running a bot" is true — and irrelevant — if your charting tool is the thing that sent the order. Consider what a modern order-flow platform typically ships:
- A one-click trade panel on the chart.
- A bracket that automatically attaches a stop and a target when you fill.
- Auto-breakeven: the software moves your stop once price travels far enough.
- A flatten-all button.
- Drag-to-modify: you move the stop line and it sends a modify request.
Every one of those is a third-party application sending an order instruction to your funded account. Auto-breakeven in particular is unambiguous: the software decided, and the software acted, with no human in the loop at the moment of the decision. That is the definition most rulebooks are reaching for.
Will a firm come after you for using auto-breakeven? Probably not, most of the time, and plenty of traders do it without incident. But "probably not" is a strange thing to bet a funded account on — and it is not our call to make on your behalf, silently, by shipping a feature.
So we removed it — at the time
For a year, Senzoukria was read-only on the broker side: the connection subscribed, listened, and never wrote. Everything below still describes what you see on the chart today; what changed is that you can now also send an order from it. Concretely, at the time:
- You see your live position on the chart — side, size, average price, unrealised P&L, drawn as a line where you got in.
- Your stop and your target appear on the chart, mirrored from the protective orders resting at the exchange, with the risk and reward zones shaded.
- Your balance, your day P&L, your win rate and your trade history are all there, synced from the broker.
- Nothing goes back. There is no buy button. There is no flatten button. Drag a mirrored stop line and it snaps back on the next tick, because it is a reflection, not a control.
You place the trade in your broker's own platform — the one the firm gave you, the one they expect the order to come from. Then you watch it on a chart that actually shows you the tape.
The guard we described — and what replaced it
A promise in a marketing page is worth nothing. Code drifts, features creep, and someone will eventually think "a small buy button would be convenient". That was the reasoning, and it was sound. What follows described the guard we intended. Current controls instead require explicit arming and risk limits for optional autopilot; they do not prohibit all automation or order routing.
The intention was a build-level guarantee: a test scanning every mounted component for order-routing calls, failing the build if any reappeared. That guard was never written, and saying otherwise here was wrong — an error we are leaving visible rather than quietly deleting. The guarantee that is enforced today is narrower and truer: the scripting sandbox cannot reach a live account, and no code path submits an order without a click.
The execution code itself still exists in the repository, disabled and unreachable. Deleting it would be theatre; the point is not that the code is impossible to write, it is that it cannot reach you by accident.
What this costs you, honestly
Two clicks and an alt-tab. When you decide to enter, you place the order where the firm expects it to come from, and you come back to the chart.
That is the whole cost, and we are not going to pretend it is a feature. What you get for it is the ability to install an order-flow platform on a funded account without ever having to wonder whether a support agent, reading your account activity after a big payout request, will decide that your charting software counted as an automated system.
If you take one thing from this page: when you evaluate any trading tool for a funded account, ask a single question — does it send orders? If yes, go and read your firm's automation clause before you install it. Not after.
Read next
The full picture of trading order flow on a funded account — feeds, entitlements and the trailing-drawdown maths that actually shapes your entries — is in the pillar: Order flow on a prop-firm account. If your chart has no history, that is a separate wall: what Rithmic will actually let you backfill.
Nothing here is financial or legal advice. Prop-firm rules differ between firms and account types and change without notice — read your own firm's current rulebook before relying on any of this.
Frequently asked questions
- Is third-party charting software allowed on a prop-firm account?
- Yes. Reading your own market data in the chart of your choice is not automation and no major futures prop firm forbids it. What the rulebooks restrict is automated ORDER placement and management — software that acts on the account rather than software that displays it.
- Can a trading platform get my funded account closed?
- A charting platform, no. A platform that places, modifies or manages orders on your behalf sits in the zone firms actually police: depending on how it is used and how the rulebook is written, it can be treated as an automated trading system. The risk is not in what you look at; it is in what sends the order.
- Can Senzoukria now place orders as well as show my position?
- Yes. The broker connection reads positions, working orders and balance. Supported connections also provide manual order entry and optional strategy autopilot after explicit arming. The article below records an earlier read-only design; the dated update describes the current product.
- Will you ever add order entry?
- Manual order entry arrived in August 2026. Optional strategy autopilot can also reach a real account after explicit arming, with risk controls and no persisted arming. Check your broker or prop firm permits your intended connection and automation. The historical design in this article is not the current execution model.
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