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TapeCrest Risk Manager holds a Tradovate account to the plan you set for a session: a trailing drawdown, a maximum loss and a profit target from the moment protection starts, plus blocked hours and news windows. When a limit is reached, it asks Tradovate to lock the account, the broker's own lock, on every platform.
$0Free Lifetime
Free account and licence key · no card, no trial clock
Risk Manager is claimed free in your TapeCrest workspace from launch day. No card, no trial clock.
Opens your TapeCrest workspace, where you claim the tool and copy its key.
Monitoring · inside your limits
Illustration with simulated data
At a glance
TapeCrest Risk Manager is a free add-on for NinjaTrader 8 that holds a Tradovate account to the plan you set for a session: a trailing drawdown, a maximum loss and a profit target, plus blocked hours and news windows if you want them. When a limit is reached, it asks Tradovate to lock the account.
The film · 1:41
In English, with subtitles. The caption under each film says what you see: recorded NQ sessions, re-drawn, or a simulation.
What it does
Trailing drawdown, maximum loss and profit target, each optional, measured on the account's P&L change since protection started, open P&L included.
Note A limit is a trigger: the final loss can be larger than the number you set.
When a limit is reached or a blocked window begins, the Risk Manager asks Tradovate to lock the account until the end of the period. The lock applies on every platform you trade from.
Note A broker lock can close positions and cancel orders. There is no unlock in this product.
Up to three daily windows on the weekdays you choose, in any time zone, plus optional news windows from a calendar file you import.
Lock the account for 15 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour, until the end of the period, or for the time you choose.
Once started, the limits, the period and the windows stay fixed until the end of the period.
Net, gross and open P&L, the trailing room left, the broker's lock state and expiry, and a journal of each session you can review after a restart.
Get started
Add the tool to your library in the TapeCrest workspace and copy its installation key. No card, no trial clock.
In NinjaTrader 8 choose Tools → Import → NinjaScript Add-On and pick the ZIP from your library.
In the Control Center choose New → TapeCrest Risk Manager, paste your key in TapeCrest access, select your Tradovate account and open its plan.
Set a small plan, review the summary and start. Watch how the locks behave on a Tradovate demo account before you protect a funded or prop account.
Requirements and limits
| Platform | NinjaTrader 8, running and connected for the whole period. |
|---|---|
| Accounts | Tradovate accounts in US dollars, on a connection that supports broker account locks. Rithmic and simulation accounts are not supported. |
| Start | A flat account with no working orders, during the Tradovate trading day: Sunday 17:00 to Friday 16:00 Chicago time, outside the daily break. |
| Period | Until 4:00 PM Chicago time, the end of the Tradovate trading day, or a number of minutes you choose. |
| Orders | It places, changes and cancels no orders. A confirmed broker lock can close positions and cancel orders. |
| Prop firms | Your firm may measure drawdown differently. Set your limits well inside the firm's and treat them as a backstop. |
| With the Copier | One TapeCrest protection per account: an account protected by the Risk Manager cannot be copied or protected by TapeCrest Copier at the same time. |
| Price | $0 · Free Lifetime See pricing |
| Licence | Free Lifetime: a free account and a licence key. No card, no trial clock. |
| Device | Two computers; release or change one yourself in your workspace. Internet for activation and licence checks. |
Free Lifetime
How Free Lifetime works
NinjaTrader 8 · Internet connection for activation and licence checks
Questions
Still unsure? Write to support@tapecrest.com.
Yes. TapeCrest Risk Manager comes with a Free Lifetime licence: a free TapeCrest account and a licence key, with no card and no trial clock. It is a complete tool, not a cut-down version.
Tradovate accounts in US dollars, connected in NinjaTrader 8 on a connection that supports broker account locks. Rithmic and simulation accounts are not supported in this version.
The Risk Manager places, changes and cancels no orders. It asks Tradovate to lock the account, and a confirmed broker lock can close positions and cancel orders; that effect comes from the broker.
Protection that is already running stays in force: its limits, broker locks and blocked hours keep enforcing until the end of the period. Starting new protection needs active access. If the platform connection drops, the session moves to review and starts no new lock for the rest of that period.
It holds you to your own plan. It does not know your firm's rules or how it measures drawdown, so set your limits well inside the firm's and treat them as a backstop.
The Risk Manager protects a Tradovate account you trade directly. TapeCrest Copier copies a leader to your followers and can carry its own protection on each account. One account is protected by one of them at a time.
Launch access
Leave your email and we write to you when the free tools open. Add any paid tools you want to try as well.
The complete kit
All six paid tools. One payment.
$654launch price
Launch price until May 6, 2027, then $899.
Bought separately: $1,194
Included, each with its own lifetime licence
Trade Copier · Volume Profile + TPO · Liquidity Heatmap · Footprint · Absorption Premium · Absorption Levels
Checkout opens on launch day. The end date of the launch prices is published that day and never moved.
Opens your TapeCrest workspace, where the Stripe checkout runs.
Questions
About a tool, your data feed, your accounts or the licence: write to us. We answer every message by email.