Who places the trades?

You do. You build and arm the agent yourself, and it runs on your own broker account through your own connection, so every order is yours. Before each order is sent, a firm-aware risk engine checks it against your rules and blocks anything that would breach. You can pause or disarm any agent at any time.

Is this only for prop-firm traders?

Prop-firm traders are the core audience, but the same platform works on any account you connect. Build a strategy, backtest it, run it, and watch the live account. You do not need a challenge to use the tool.

What does "AI" mean here?

It means the platform can host user-authored automation that may use AI or machine-learning logic. We do not promise alpha, prediction, or guaranteed outcomes.

Can I start with a simple rule?

Yes. The simplest path is the quick-rule flow: describe the trade, test it, then deploy it without building a full code project.

What is the marketplace rev share?

When authors sell strategies through the marketplace, Glitch Executor takes 30% and the author keeps 70%.

Which brokers and firm contexts are supported?

cTrader, TradeLocker, DXtrade, and MT4/MT5 via MetaApi for brokers; FundingPips Zero, FTMO Phase 1, MFF, Apex, The5ers, and GetLeveraged Turbo in Firm Mode.

Bot vs firm verdict

Volatility Mean-Reversion cBot vs prop firms, which actually pass?

Mean-reversion on Bollinger-band extremes for major forex pairs, slow, low-frequency, low-drawdown.

2 of 4 testable firms passedforexVendor: cTrader Algo community (open-source)Last verified: 2026-05-16

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Verdict matrix

Firm-by-firm: passes, busts, or untested.

FundingPips ZeroMisses

Drawdown profile is friendly to the 5% trailing DD. The 7-profitable-days quota in 30 is the bottleneck, typical months produce only 4-6 active days.

FTMO Phase 1Passes

Plenty of headroom inside the 5% daily / 10% static DD. Hitting 10% target in a single 30-day window depends on volatility regime.

MyForexFundsUntested

Pending relaunch.

Apex Trader FundingUntested

Apex is futures; cBot is cTrader. Not a meaningful matchup.

The5ers High StakesMisses

3-profitable-days quota at ≥0.5% per session is achievable but requires deliberately concentrating size on signal days, which conflicts with the small R-multiple design.

GetLeveraged TurboPasses

No min-days requirement removes the consistency bottleneck. 6% trailing DD compatible with the small drawdown profile.

About Volatility Mean-Reversion cBot

The strategy in plain English.

A canonical mean-reversion strategy: trade when price stretches >2 standard deviations from a 20-period moving average, exit on return to the mean. Win-rate is high (~70%), R-multiple is small (~0.5R), and the strategy is dormant most of the time. The combination produces a low-drawdown equity curve that fits most prop firms, but the dormancy is a problem for firms that enforce min-profitable-days quotas.

Track-record source we replayed: https://ctrader.com/algos

How we verified this

Where the Volatility Mean-Reversion cBot verdict comes from.

Authored and reviewed by Ryan Tran, Strategy Lead, Glitch Executor. Ryan owns the firm-rule engine that produced every verdict on this page.

The replayed track record is publicly traceable: https://ctrader.com/algos
No paid placements, we do not accept money to include or rank a strategy here.
Verdicts re-run every quarter against the current firm rule set. Last verified: 2026-05-16.
Glitch Executor is tooling, not a managed-account or signal vendor. Use this page to inform your own pre-flight, not as a recommendation to trade Volatility Mean-Reversion cBot.

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FAQ

Common questions about Volatility Mean-Reversion cBot and prop firms.

Which prop firms does Volatility Mean-Reversion cBot pass?

Volatility Mean-Reversion cBot passes 2 of 4 testable firms in the current audit: FTMO Phase 1, GetLeveraged Turbo. The verdict matrix above shows the full per-firm breakdown including soft failures and untested matchups.

What is the biggest rule risk for Volatility Mean-Reversion cBot?

No hard rule breaches in the latest audit. Soft failures (missing profit target or profitable-day quotas) are the remaining risk; see the verdict matrix.

Where does the data behind this verdict come from?

We replayed Volatility Mean-Reversion cBot's publicly-traceable track record (https://ctrader.com/algos) through the same firm-rule engine that powers Glitch Executor's backtest verdicts and live breach detection. No paid placements; verdicts are reproducible from public data.

Can I run Volatility Mean-Reversion cBot on a Glitch Executor account?

Glitch Executor is tooling for tracking and pre-flighting strategies, not a signal vendor or marketplace. You can upload your own MT5 statement or Myfxbook CSV into the Library to get the same per-firm verdict for your real trading history, including Volatility Mean-Reversion cBot if you have your own track record.

When is this verdict next re-verified?

Verdicts are re-replayed during the quarterly firm-rule audit. This page's verdict was last verified on 2026-05-16. Firm-rule changes flagged by the public pricing watcher trigger an out-of-cycle update when they invalidate a verdict.

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