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Yes. Forge supports multiple MT5 Connectors at once, each pointing at its own MT5 install and broker account.

How to set it up:

• Go to Add a Connector under Live Services and create one Connector for each account (for example one for your personal live account and one for a demo account). Each download is a separate Connector, and adding a new one no longer retires your existing ones.
• Install each Connector in its own MT5 (one Connector equals one MT5 install).
• When you Go Live on a strategy, the Connector picker lets you choose which account that strategy trades on. Forge only sends each strategy's signals to the Connector you picked, so a demo strategy can never leak onto your live account.

One thing to know: if you ever point two Connectors at the exact same broker login, they can report duplicate close events because they share an order tag. A personal account and a demo account are different logins, so this does not affect that setup. It only matters if two Connectors watch the identical account.

If one of those accounts is a prop-firm account (FTMO and the like), flag it as such when you set up its Connector. Forge then keeps it off your default and locks it to a single strategy, so a stray trade can never breach your evaluation. See the prop-firm questions below.

Yes. When you set up the Connector for it, choose "Prop firm evaluation" or "Prop firm funded account" and enter the firm and account size. A prop account is treated more carefully than a personal one:

• It is locked to a single strategy. Forge refuses to send a second strategy to it, so concurrent trades can never stack up and breach the daily or overall loss limits.
• It is never your default Connector. You always pick it deliberately at Go Live, so you cannot accidentally fire a personal strategy at your evaluation.
• It is protected from copy-trade detection by Prop Shield. Your entries are spaced out in time, and if another account at the same firm runs a near-identical strategy, your account is also varied a little (a few entries skipped, the lot nudged) so your trades never line up one-for-one with theirs. Your strategy itself is never changed, and a prop account whose strategy no one else runs is left exactly as designed.

If you want to run more than one strategy with a prop firm, use a separate account (a separate MT5 login) and connect each one as its own Connector.

Passing an evaluation does not upgrade the account in place. The firm issues you a brand-new funded account on a new MT5 login, so in Forge that is a new Connector. On your evaluation Connector's page you will see a "Set up funded account" step that walks you through connecting the funded account and links the two together. Once it is connected, Forge shows where it came from and offers to move your strategy across.

Re-check your lot sizing first: funded accounts usually use a different drawdown basis from the evaluation (often trailing from your peak balance, sometimes with a consistency rule), so the sizing that passed the eval can be too aggressive once funded.

We work hard to make sure it does not. Forge is a strategy builder, not a copy-trade service: each account runs its own strategy independently and we never copy one account's trades onto another. The risk a prop firm actually looks for is at the order level, where two accounts at the same firm place near-identical trades at the same moment. Prop Shield prevents that. On a prop account it spaces out your entry timing, and if another account at the same firm runs a near-identical strategy it also applies small per-account variations to your entries, so no two accounts ever trade identically. Your strategy itself, its rules, stop and targets, is never changed. The trade-off is that your live results on a prop account will differ slightly from the backtest and from your other accounts, and that difference is exactly what keeps each account genuinely independent. A prop account whose strategy no one else is running is left exactly as designed.

Forge gives your strategy its best, honest shot, but no platform can guarantee that you pass. Whether you pass comes down to your strategy's real edge and how it behaves in live market conditions, and prop firms design evaluations so that many people do not pass. What Forge does is remove the avoidable ways to fail: it sizes your strategy to the firm's drawdown limits, locks a prop account to a single strategy so a stray trade cannot breach the rules, offers an optional circuit breaker, runs honest backtests with no look-ahead, and protects you from copy-trade detection with Prop Shield. We focus on the things we can control, not on promises we cannot keep.

Updating is a one-file job and takes about two minutes. When a new version is available you will see an Update available notice on your Connector page (and a nudge on your dashboard). Click Download update on the Connector page, then:

• In MT5, go to File then Open Data Folder, and open the MQL5 folder (Experts for the VPS variant, Services for the Local variant).
• Copy the program file from the download over the old one (replace when asked).
• Restart MT5. Your chart or service reloads the new version with all settings intact.
• If you host on MQL5 VPS, right-click your account in Navigator and choose Migrate to Virtual Server again so the VPS picks up the new version.

Your strategies, settings and connection key are untouched, live trading carries on as before. Important: do NOT run a fresh full install to update. A fresh install creates a new connection and your live strategies stay routed to the existing one. Your Connector page confirms the new version automatically within a minute of the restart. We also email you once per release if any of your Connectors is running an older version.

AI Radar reads live market conditions every minute and classifies the market regime (trending, ranging, breakout, mean-revert, shock or neutral). On its page it recommends the presets from your library with the strongest proven record for current conditions. If you enable AI Radar on a Connector (its detail page, off by default), Radar can also act for you: it switches the live strategy when another of your presets has a clearly better record for the regime (it must win by a wide, proven margin), it pauses new entries around high-impact US news and during extreme volatility and resumes them automatically, and it occasionally builds a re-fitted variant of your best strategy when volatility moves far from its norm, validated with an immediate six month backtest. If you only want the safety half, a separate News and shock protection toggle on the Connector detail page gives you just the news and volatility pauses with no strategy switching at all, which suits prop accounts whose rules forbid trading around red-folder news. Three things never happen: Radar never touches an open trade (everything runs to its normal stop loss and take profit), it never acts on a Connector where you have not turned it on, and it never switches without emailing you. Every action appears on the AI Radar page. The full pipeline and safety rails are documented on the Wiki under AI Radar.

Two-factor authentication adds a second step to your login using a free authenticator app, so your account stays safe even if your password is ever stolen.

To turn it on:

• Go to Account, then the Security tab.
• Select Turn on two-factor.
• Scan the QR code with an authenticator app (Google Authenticator, Authy, 1Password and others), or type the key in by hand.
• Enter the 6-digit code the app shows to confirm.
• Save your backup codes somewhere safe. Each one works once if you ever lose your phone.

Next time you log in you enter your password as usual, then the current 6-digit code from your app. Lost your device? Enter one of your backup codes instead.

It is optional for members and required for admin accounts. You can turn it off again, or generate fresh backup codes, from the same Security tab.