Can GreatBless Cancel My Profits Because of My Trading Strategy?

No. Automated trading is permitted, and a profit made with a legitimate strategy is yours. This article explains where the line sits, and why a risk rule closing your positions is a different thing entirely.

What the Terms say

"Automated trading, including the use of Expert Advisors, is permitted. This section prohibits abuse, not automation.

Where you trade using a legitimate strategy — including automated, short-term, or high-frequency strategies — the Company will not cancel or withhold the resulting profits on the basis of that strategy alone. Where the Company considers a transaction to be abusive under this section, it will notify you with its reasons, and you may raise a complaint under section 19."
— Terms & Conditions V5, section 9

Closing a position is not cancelling a profit

These two are often confused, so it is worth stating plainly.

🔹 Cancelling or withholding a profit means a trade you already closed is voided, or its result is not paid out. Section 9 forbids that on the basis of your strategy alone.

🔹 A risk rule closing your positions means open trades are closed at the market price available at that moment. The result is realised into your account and stays there — including the profit on any trade that was ahead at the time. Nothing is voided and nothing is withheld.

So when Trader's Guard or the Daily Drawdown Trading Lock liquidates an account, it is acting on a risk limit, not on an opinion about your strategy. The trigger is a number you or the platform set in advance — a daily loss figure, a drawdown percentage, a volume ceiling — and it fires the same way whether the strategy behind the trades is manual, automated, or high-frequency.

⚠️ Be aware of what that means in practice: a liquidation closes the entire account, including positions that are currently in profit. This is described in Violation Action Types. Closing is done on a best-effort basis at prevailing market prices; under fast markets, gaps, or thin liquidity the fill can differ from the price you see, and the realised result can be worse than the configured limit.

What actually counts as abuse

Section 9 lists it, and the list is narrow. You must not:

1. Use the platform for illegal purposes.

2. Exploit system errors or delays.

3. Use automated systems in a way that places an unreasonable load on our systems, or that is designed to exploit latency, pricing errors, or system delays.

4. Manipulate market conditions.

5. Abuse bonus programmes or Islamic (Swap-Free) account conditions.

Read those together and the pattern is clear: what is prohibited is profiting from a fault in the system or the market, not profiting from skill or speed.

If we ever treat a trade as abusive

Two things are guaranteed to you by the Terms:

🔹 You are told, with reasons. We notify you and state why the transaction is considered abusive.
🔹 You can dispute it. Section 19 of the Terms & Conditions sets out the complaint procedure. Our support team can receive your complaint but cannot vary the terms of your account.

Sources: Terms & Conditions V5, section 9 and section 19; Client Agreement V7. Published 9 September 2026. This article summarises those documents for convenience — where it differs from them, the signed documents prevail.