When you hit max drawdown,the hedge is designed to pay

• 01What happens if I hit max drawdown on a prop firm challenge?
  If the prop account hits maximum drawdown, the hedge on your own broker is sized so the challenge fee is designed to come back. In Margin mode that scenario is also where the surplus is designed to land. This is not a refund from the firm, and it is not a guarantee: it depends on configuration, capital, and friction (erosion). The firm closes the evaluation and keeps the fee. The paying leg is your personal MT4 or MT5 broker, not a refund from the firm.

• 02Do prop firms refund the evaluation fee after a fail?
  Almost never. The fee is the firm's product. When the account hits maximum drawdown, they keep it. Prop Firm Armour does not ask the firm for a refund. It sizes an opposite hedge on your own broker so that event is designed to return the fee (Scaling) or land a surplus (Margin). Configuration, capital, and erosion all move the cash result. It is not a guarantee.

• 03Is this the hedging that prop firms ban?
  No. Firms ban opening a long on one of their challenges and a short on another, or hedging across two of their accounts. That is a cross-account exploit on their book. Prop Firm Armour hedges on your personal broker, with your own capital, in a process that runs locally on Windows. The two accounts stay independent: no cloud relay, no shared infrastructure. This is not a copier. Read the terms of the firm you choose.

• 04What is the difference between Margin and Scaling?
  Both modes price the max drawdown. Scaling is designed so the fee comes back (or a thin surplus) when the account burns; surplus is meant to sit at payout, and it needs less broker capital. Margin is designed so the surplus lands on the breach, the probable scenario, and needs about double the broker deposit. Neither mode is a guarantee. Lot sizing and erosion (spread, swap, slippage, commission) move the result.

• 05What is a prop firm hedge bot?
  A prop firm hedge bot opens the opposite position on your personal MT4 or MT5 broker when you trade a prop evaluation. It does not place the challenge trades. Prop Firm Armour is that machine: local on Windows, lot sized to the challenge cost, not a copier, not a long on one firm and a short on another. A prop firm trading bot is a different product. That one fires the evaluation entries. This one does not.

• 06Do I need a personal account to hedge a prop firm challenge?
  Yes. The paying leg is your own broker. The prop account is the evaluation. Without a personal MT4 or MT5 account and capital sized to the cycle, there is nowhere for the opposite lot to sit. Hedging across two prop firm accounts is the practice firms ban. The personal account is the ordinary broker you already have.

• 07What is a hedge copier, and how is it different from Prop Hedge or Prop Shield?
  A hedge copier is a reverse trade copier: opposite lot on a second account. Prop Firm Armour is that copier pointed at your personal MT4 or MT5, sized to the challenge fee. Public Prop Hedge pages describe an EA that also trades the challenge, then reverses. Public Prop Shield pages describe a same-side futures copier across Tradovate/Rithmic prop accounts plus a risk vault. Different machines. The comparison is on /blogs/prop-firm-hedge-software-compared.

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