What's shipped.

EXIT CODE now works with MetaTrader 5 as well as cTrader. Paid members get a small Expert Advisor from the site, pair it once with an 8-character code from the new MT5 page in your account, and from then on your terminal sends your equity, balance, open positions and closed trades to your workstation every few seconds. The day-loss standing, the verified-journal record and the lockouts run off that feed, the same way they run off cTrader's.

Two things to know. The EA never places a trade, never sees your password, and nothing the server sends it can open, close or change a position. The one exception is a switch that is off by default: set your own daily loss limit in the EA's inputs and turn on close-at-limit, and the EA will close your open positions when that line is hit. That check runs on your own machine from your own numbers and keeps working if our server is unreachable.

The gates run where you trade with us. Your broker's own apps, including the MT5 phone app, remain your own responsibility; trades placed there still land in your ledger and count against your day, they just do not get checked first.

What is not in this release: executing a cleared ticket straight into MT5 from the site, which cTrader members already have. That is next. Test on a demo account first, and check your firm's rules on Expert Advisors before attaching it to a funded account.

If you were on the free plan and opened the backtester, you got a wall asking you to upgrade. That was wrong. The free plan has always included the backtester on sample data, and the page was blocking you from the thing it advertised.

Fixed. On the free plan you now get the sample chart with all eight gates running live: load it, step through the bars, and watch the gates block the trades that empty accounts. Replaying your own broker history is still part of the Challenge Pass and Founder, because that needs your account connected.

If you signed up free before today and hit that wall, it was our bug, not your plan. Nothing to do, just open it again.

Three changes worth knowing about. First, the free plan now includes all eight gates, run on your own setups, self-reported. Paying is no longer about unlocking gates; it wires them to your real cTrader account so the answers come from your broker's fills instead of your memory. Free checks your rules. Paid makes them impossible to break.

Second, there's a new way to pay: the Challenge Pass. $149 once, 60 days of the full system, nothing renews. Built for the length of a prop-firm challenge attempt. The monthly Founder plan also now starts with 14 days free, no card.

Third, under the hood: your cTrader connection credentials are now encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM, with the key held separately from the data), verified in production with zero unencrypted records remaining.