AvaTrade has been one of the worst experiences …
AvaTrade has been one of the most frustrating and untrustworthy broker experiences I've had.
I was running a fully automated MT5 Expert Advisor (EA) on AWS, trading live. The first two trades executed perfectly, fills, execution, and stop loss matched my tick backtest exactly, confirming that everything was set up correctly and functioning as expected.
Then things took a very suspicious turn.
On the next three trades, immediately after the positions opened, AvaTrade's server disabled AutoTrading with the error message: "AutoTrading disabled by server".
This happened without warning, without explanation, and without any change on my end.
Every single one of those three trades was a winner from the moment of entry. As designed, the EA attempted to modify the stop loss to lock in profit (move SL above entry), which is basic, standard trade management. Literally 1 minute later the server blocked all stop loss modifications.
Because AutoTrading was forcibly disabled:
- The stop losses could not be adjusted.
- Profits could not be protected.
- Risk management was completely overridden by the broker.
As a direct result, all three trades reversed and were eventually stopped out at the original, unmodified stop loss, turning winning trades into full losses, losses that would not have occurred if AvaTrade had not interfered.
I messaged them and the support provided had no meaningful explanation/accountability ("minor technical issue of the EA"). If a broker can arbitrarily disable AutoTrading mid-trade, traders do not control their own risk.
For anyone running automated strategies, MT4 MT5 EAs, VPS trading or any system requiring dynamic stop loss management... please avoid AvaTrade at all costs.
18. Dezember 2025
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