I was doing a challenge for a prop firm and at some point, all my orders were getting rejected with this message:
Your maximum order quantity has been met. Please change your quantity to place the order. If you would like to request an increase, please submit a risk change request in the Account Settings Limit: 0 Current: 1. Scope: NQ Rule #555
Hi there!
It sounds like you’re encountering an issue with the maximum order quantity limit. You can manage this by setting a Max Position limit in your Application Settings. This will allow you to control the number of open positions you can have.
To enable this feature, navigate to your Application Settings. For detailed steps on how to set this up, you can refer to this guide: How Do I Set a Max Position Limit.
If you have any more questions or need further assistance, feel free to ask!
Hello I keep getting an order rejected I was in a trade in the negative maybe about 100$ it took me out the trade and I can’t enter back in. Any suggestions my acct is only down 400$ . I was only using a contract size of 2.
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I just got conected for my Alpha futures evaluation. Alpha futures is connected through tradovate and I have been having trouble since getting connected. I purchased a 100k funded account and have all of it set up. My account shows the balance and every where it shows that my account is active. I went to take my first trade and it says my maximum order limit has been reached. It won’t even allow me to take 1. Mean while my account is brand new and still shows 100k even on the balance. How do I fix this??
That message usually comes from the risk limits configured on the prop firm side, not directly from Tradovate itself.
Most prop firms enforce rules like:
• maximum contracts per order
• maximum position size per instrument
• scaling rules during challenges
In your message it looks like the account was limited to 1 contract for NQ (Rule #555), so when the order quantity exceeded that, the platform rejected it.
The usual fixes are:
• reduce the order size to the allowed quantity
• request a limit increase from the prop firm
• check if the rule applies per order or per position
This type of issue becomes even more common when traders run multiple prop accounts or copy trades across accounts, because each account can have slightly different limits.
When building multi account execution workflows we ran into this quite often while working on Proteryx.com. One thing we added there was the ability to enforce per account maximum quantity rules when copying trades across Tradovate and prop firm accounts, so the system adjusts the order size automatically instead of triggering rejections.
In many cases the root cause ends up being a prop firm risk rule rather than an order routing issue.
You may want to check the account risk settings or scaling rules tied to that challenge account.