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Why do I keep blowing funded accounts?

You pass the challenge. You get funded. Weeks later the account is gone, and the worst part is you cannot point to a bad strategy. If that has happened more than once, it is not bad luck and it is not your edge. It is a pattern, and patterns can be broken once you can see the shape of them.

It is the same loop every time

Blown funded accounts almost never die from a single bad idea. They die from a reaction to a small loss, and the reaction is the same one every time:

1. A small loss lands. Normal, expected, part of the job.
2. You re-enter fast to make it back, usually bigger than your plan allows, because normal size will not undo the loss quickly enough.
3. That trade loses too, and now you are angry as well as down.
4. The session becomes a spiral, and one manageable loss becomes the breach that ends the account.

The strategy was never the problem. The reaction to the loss was. That is why the same trader with the same edge gets a different result on the day they stay flat after the first loss.

Why it keeps happening specifically to you

It is not a discipline flaw you can shame yourself out of. The urge to win it back peaks in the minutes right after a loss, which is exactly when your judgment is most compromised. Willpower is being asked to win an argument at its weakest moment, and it loses. Knowing better does not help, because you already knew better each time it happened.

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How to break the loop

Everything that works has one thing in common: the decision is made before the loss, and holding it does not depend on willpower after the loss.

• A cooling-off after any loss you cannot skip. The urge fades in minutes if you do not feed it; a fixed wait outlasts it.
• A block on re-entering the same market right after a loss at bigger size, which is the signature move of the spiral.
• A daily loss limit that stops the session before the breach, not after.
• A journal you cannot argue with, so the "it was a new setup" story dies against the broker's own record.

Where EXIT CODE fits

EXIT CODE enforces those rules on your own cTrader or MetaTrader 5 account. You set them while calm, and before every trade eight gates check the trade and return CLEARED or BLOCK. The post-loss cooldown and the daily lockout are gates, and a BLOCK has no override. It will not make you profitable. It removes the reaction that keeps ending your accounts.

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