AphnaPassing an FTMO challenge with your own automated strategy
Aphna doesn't pass challenges for you, and it doesn't sell a ready-made EA. It helps you build your own strategy, run it on your challenge automatically, and stop trading before FTMO's loss limits are reached.
Why not a passing service or a shared EA?
On a prop firm account, the trading has to be your own. FTMO's rules don't allow anyone else to access your challenge or funded account, or to trade it for you. And FTMO points out that a bought-in EA may be running the same strategy for many other traders, which can cost you the funded account under its maximum capital allocation rule. (FTMO, Forbidden Trading Practices and FAQ, checked 24 Oct 2026.)
What ends a challenge
A challenge ends the moment you break one of two limits: the maximum daily loss or the maximum loss. FTMO sets both for each account type, so check its current figures before you start. Aphna lets you set tighter limits of your own, for example stopping for the day at 2.5% and at 9% below your highest balance, so a bad day ends before FTMO's limit is reached.
Building a strategy for a challenge
The guides take you through building, reading the numbers and going live: Aphna Builder, Reading the numbers, Building a strategy and Going live.
Plainly: a strategy that tested well can still lose. No one can promise you'll pass.