Rule Violations

TradeLog automatically DETECTS certain breaches -- contract-limit breaches while you trade, plus daily-loss and max-drawdown breach verdicts -- but a violation record itself is entered manually: when your prop firm issues a violation notice, record it with the "Record Violation" button on the Rules & Limits tab. Recording a violation resets your payout cycle and applies any penalty requirements, so record them promptly. There is no separate "Violations" tab -- the Record button and the violation history live alongside the rules they relate to.

Violation Types

• Contract Limit -- You exceeded the maximum position size allowed by the firm's scaling rules. TradeLog auto-detects this while you trade and offers a one-click Record Violation button for it.
• Daily Loss -- Your net loss for a single day exceeded the firm's daily loss limit.
• MAE -- A maximum-adverse-excursion violation issued by firms that limit how far a single trade may run against you.
• Consistency -- Your best trading day's profit exceeded the firm's consistency percentage. Not all firms enforce this.
• Other -- Any other firm-issued violation you want on record.
• Note: a maximum-drawdown breach is handled separately -- it marks the whole account BREACHED (typically account termination) rather than creating a violation record.

How Violations Are Detected

Detection indicators (the contract-limit alert and the daily-loss / max-drawdown breach verdicts) recompute automatically as your trade data changes. Violation records themselves are created by you and stay fully editable -- you can edit, resolve, or delete them from the Violation History on the Rules & Limits tab.

Violation Alerts

When a violation is detected, TradeLog displays a red warning banner on the Prop Firms page and in the Journal Mini Dashboard. This ensures you are immediately aware of the issue.