They profit when traders fail
Prop firms can afford aggressive offers because most traders break rules, give back winning streaks, or lose before payout.
⚡ NetLabs TradeLink
30 days free — limited time
For prop firm and funded accounts
How to make money from prop firms — even when an account blows.
TradeLink is an easy-to-install NinjaTrader AddOn and local web app that helps you connect a prop account workflow to an MT5 hedge. Use it to reduce exposure, protect the campaign, and stop treating every prop account like a one-way bet against yourself.
Easy setup
NinjaTrader AddOn + local web app
Hedge smarter
Size and manage both sides
Less pressure
Protect the trade before psychology takes over
Trading, prop firm accounts, and funded accounts still involve risk. TradeLink is a risk-management tool, not a guarantee of passing, payouts, or profit.
The futures prop firm window is open — but it is already tightening
Prop firms are fiercely competing for futures traders. That creates favourable pricing, larger opportunities, and aggressive promotions — but firms are also adding stricter drawdowns, consistency rules, payout limits, and other trip wires to claw back the edge.
Your edge is risk structure
In the real market, edge comes from prediction. In prop firms, edge can also come from the firm under-pricing rewards versus the risk they make you take.
Hedging flips the pressure
When calculated properly, a hedge can reduce exposure so you are not emotionally chained to every tick of the prop account.
Ever had a great day, then gave it all back because you cared too much about the account?
That is the psychology trap. You trade well, get close to payout or completion, then one mistake becomes a revenge trade, then one more, then the account is gone.
Or worse: you are near the finish line, close to withdrawal or funding, and one rule, one drawdown spike, or one emotional decision wipes out the whole attempt.
The best cure for bad trading psychology
Not caring about the single account because you already know the risk is controlled.
That is the practical point of hedging. You stop treating one prop account as a life-or-death event and start managing a structured campaign across both sides.
TradeLink does not remove risk. It helps you calculate, connect, and manage the hedge so you are not improvising under pressure.
What if you only had to really pay when you win?
The goal is not to magically make every prop account win. The goal is to stop treating a failed account as a simple cash burn. With the right hedge, the losing side can be offset elsewhere, while the winning side can still leave you positioned for payout or funded-stage upside.
Useful before and after funding
TradeLink is not just for passing. The same hedging logic can help on funded accounts where the goal is to protect profits and control downside.
What if losing the account was not the end?
When a prop account fails, the hedge can still matter. That changes how you think, size, and react under pressure.
What if the firm’s rules became part of your edge?
Drawdowns, consistency limits, and payout rules are constraints. TradeLink is built to help manage the hedge without casually setting off the trip wires.
“If hedging is so powerful, why doesn’t everyone do it?”
Because doing it badly is dangerous. Hedging sounds simple until you account for sizing, spread, margin, commissions, symbol conversion, timing, firm rules, drawdown behaviour, and the operational risk of managing two platforms at once.
The wrong approach can cost you
- Wrong hedge size can increase risk instead of reducing it.
- Bad timing can leave both sides exposed at the worst moment.
- Rule-sensitive firms may punish clumsy or obvious workflows.
- Manual hedging under stress creates mistakes exactly when you can least afford them.
Under-the-radar workflow
TradeLink is built around a controlled approach to reducing exposure without turning your hedge process into a noisy manual scramble.
Hedge calculations in one place
Use the local dashboard to think through lot size, reward/risk, spread, commission, and warnings before you commit.
Know which firms are safer to hedge
Not every prop firm is equal. Some rule sets are much more hedge-friendly than others, and the wrong setup can destroy the advantage.
Start protecting your profits in three steps
TradeLink is built for traders who want practical control, not a complicated engineering project.
1. Get your free trial
Start the 30-day trial, create your NetLabs account, and go to your members dashboard for the TradeLink download and license details. Cancel before billing begins and you will not be charged a penny.
2. Install the NinjaTrader AddOn
Import the NinjaTrader AddOn zip file into NinjaTrader, launch the local web app, and connect it to your MT5 backend account. If NinjaTrader and MT5 are already installed, setup takes only a few minutes.
3. Hedge with control
Use Sync controls, sizing tools, diagnostics, and recovery records to manage the prop-side account and hedge side with less panic.
Built for traders who know the game is risk management
Prediction matters, but survival matters more. TradeLink is about lowering exposure and staying disciplined when the rules are designed to make traders slip.
Easy-to-install NinjaTrader AddOn
Keep working from the trading environment you already know while TradeLink helps coordinate the backend hedge workflow.
Local web app control center
Configure, monitor, and manage the bridge locally from a browser dashboard without needing a cloud trading terminal.
Hedge sizing and diagnostics
Estimate lot sizing, spread, commissions, margin pressure, and practical warnings before you rely on the setup live.
Sync on/off when it matters
Control when backend orders should follow the prop account and when you need to pause or reconcile.
Restart recovery records
TradeLink keeps operational records to help reconnect state after restarts or interruptions.
Designed around prop firm trip wires
The workflow is built for the messy reality of drawdowns, consistency rules, payout targets, and the psychology of not blowing up near the finish line.
Prop firms are not giving away favourable conditions forever.
Start your 30-day TradeLink trial while the window is open. Learn the hedge workflow, test it carefully, and stop approaching prop accounts like a one-way bet against yourself.
FAQ
Direct answers before you try TradeLink.
Is TradeLink now the NetLabs focus?
Yes. xP Scraper and the other legacy pages remain available, but our current focus is helping traders use hedging to attack prop firm accounts more intelligently while market conditions are still favourable.
Does this guarantee prop firm payouts?
No. It is a tool for reducing and managing exposure. You still need to understand the firm rules, test your setup, and accept that trading can lose money.
Why not just hedge manually?
You can, but manual hedging is where a lot of mistakes happen: wrong size, wrong symbol assumptions, bad timing, poor reconciliation, and emotional decisions under pressure.
What do I need?
You need NinjaTrader for the prop-side workflow and an MT5 backend account for the hedge side. Start with demo/simulated testing before using real capital or funded capital.