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Pine Script Strategy Audit — Is Your Script Actually Prop-Firm Ready?
Most traders assume their Pine Script is ready for a live evaluation. Most are wrong, and the common failure points are silent — no error, no TradingView warning, just a rule breach partway through the eval. The audit finds them first.
The Problem: Silent Compliance Failures
When a prop-firm account gets closed for a rule breach, it rarely looks dramatic. There's no alarm and no TradingView alert warning that a daily limit is about to be crossed — a signal fires, the order fills, and the balance crosses a line. The evaluation fee is gone, and usually the trader never sees exactly why.
The causes are rarely the obvious ones. Experienced traders already know not to hold overnight or trade through a news print unprotected. What actually kills accounts is whatever nobody checked: re-entry logic that stacks losses past a daily limit, a session filter set to the wrong time zone so it's an hour off from the exchange, a stop sized correctly for ES but never adjusted for MES, or a signal that looks fine in the backtest but fills on the wick instead of the close once it's live.
These aren't beginner mistakes — they're architecture mistakes, the kind that only show up once someone reads the code carefully against a specific firm's rules, for a specific account tier and instrument. That's what the audit does.
What the Audit Covers — 7-Point Compliance Checklist
Daily Loss Kill Switch
Does the script actually halt on a daily loss limit? Is the threshold right for your firm and account tier, does it check intraday or only at session open, and is it based on net P&L (including commissions) or gross? We verify the logic, the threshold, and the trigger against your firm's real daily-loss rule.
Stop-Loss Sizing
Is per-trade dollar risk calculated correctly for your contract and account tier? A stop sized in points that's correct for ES (50x multiplier) is off by 5x if it's reused on MES (5x multiplier) without adjustment. We check the sizing math against your firm's maximum loss per trade and per day.
Bar-Close Confirmation — Repainting Check
Does the script enter on bar close — the only condition that reliably avoids repainting — or does it react to intrabar price levels? A request.security() lookback without barmerge.lookahead_off will behave differently live than it did in the backtest. We run a systematic repaint check on every entry and exit condition.
Session Filter — RTH Boundaries and Time Zone
Does the script restrict entries to regular trading hours, using the correct exchange time zone (America/New_York for CME futures) rather than UTC or a server default? Does it handle DST correctly? A one-hour offset here can expose the script to the overnight session, where spreads are wide and volume is thin.
Re-Entry Logic After Stop-Out
Does the script re-enter right after a stop-out in a way that can double daily loss exposure? If re-entry logic ignores cumulative daily P&L, two stop-outs in a session can push losses past the daily limit before the kill switch has a chance to fire. We check how re-entry conditions interact with the kill switch.
Drawdown Exposure Modeling
We model a worst-case daily-loss scenario against a few different firms' drawdown rules to show exactly how much cushion is left in a maximum-loss session — including whether any realistic sequence of trades could fail the evaluation in a single day.
Signal Frequency — Overtrading Risk
How many signals does the script generate per session on average, and at the high end? We check signal frequency against a range most evaluation windows can safely absorb — a script firing 8+ signals a session sharply raises the odds of hitting a daily limit on a bad day.
What You Receive
The deliverable is a written report covering:
- A pass/fail summary across all 7 compliance checks
- For each failed check: what's wrong in the code, why it matters for your firm and account tier, and the specific Pine Script fix
- Worst-case daily-loss modeling against a few major prop firms (defaulting to Apex, Topstep, and MyFundedFutures, or your specific firm if different)
- A signal-frequency count from backtesting your submitted script and timeframe
- An overall rating — Ready to Trade, Needs Adjustments, or High Risk — explained in plain terms
Findings are written for traders, not developers — every item explains the problem, why it matters, and what has to change, regardless of your Pine Script background.
Who This Is For
Traders who built their own script: you wrote it, or heavily modified someone else's, and it backtests well — but you want a second set of eyes focused specifically on prop-firm compliance before you risk an evaluation fee on it.
Traders who bought a strategy elsewhere: a marketplace or Discord seller called it "prop firm ready" without saying which firm, which account size, or which checks they actually ran. This verifies the claim before you deploy it on a live evaluation.
Traders failing evaluations without knowing why: the strategy looks profitable in backtesting and paper trading, but live evaluations keep failing. The audit finds the silent rule breach — often something as specific as a stop that's correct for one contract size but not the account tier you're actually trading.
Turnaround Time
The audit is delivered within 48hr review of receiving your script and payment confirmation, and most go out well ahead of that window. We review scripts seven days a week — weekends aren't excluded from the clock.
Price
$79 flat, for one script — one firm and account tier modeled in depth, with two more firms folded into the drawdown-exposure modeling. No hourly rate and no required upsell to get the full report. Email us first and we'll confirm and send a payment link with your order.
How to Order
Fill in the form below — it opens an email to us with your details pre-filled. Attach your
.pine file before you hit send, and we'll reply with confirmation and a payment
link within a few hours. The delivery clock starts once payment is confirmed.
What We Don't Do
The audit is analysis, not implementation — we identify problems and prescribe fixes, but we don't modify your code. Implementing the fixes (or rebuilding the script) is a Custom Build engagement, with the audit fee credited toward it if ordered within 30 days.
We also don't guarantee an evaluation pass. The audit rules out the common compliance failures a code review can catch — but slippage, execution quality, and whether the underlying strategy has an edge in the current market all affect the actual outcome. A fully compliant script can still lose an evaluation if the strategy itself isn't profitable.
We don't audit discretionary setups, indicator-only scripts with no entry or exit logic, or anything not written in Pine Script v5, and we don't sign NDAs as a condition of review.
Ready to audit your script?
7-point compliance report, written findings, delivered in 48hr review. One script, one flat fee.