Restrict Tradable Products in Tradovate

If you keep fat-fingering the wrong contract, or you only ever want one or two instruments touching a given account, you can make Tradovate enforce that for you. The Products Permitted setting turns the account into a whitelist. You list the contracts you're allowed to trade, and every order for anything else gets rejected before it can fill.

It's a simple guardrail, but a useful one. A scalper who only trades NQ can lock the account to NQ and never open an ES position by mistake again.

What Products Permitted Does

By default a Tradovate account can trade any product you have market access and data for. Products Permitted flips that around: once it's on, the account only accepts orders for the specific symbols you've added. Everything else is blocked at the account level, so it applies whether the order comes from the platform, a mobile app, or an automated feed.

Think of it as an allow-list, not a block-list. You're not naming the products you want to avoid. You're naming the short list of products you want to keep, and Tradovate handles the rest.

Before You Start

• This is an account-level control that lives with your Tradovate risk settings, so you'll want to be logged in to the account you want to restrict.
• It's meant for live and self-funded demo accounts. On a prop firm evaluation account, product permissions are usually controlled by the firm rather than by you, so the option may be greyed out or missing. Rules vary by firm and account type, so check your firm's current setup.
• Have your symbol list ready. Know exactly which contracts you want to allow before you switch it on, because anything you forget to add will start rejecting.

Restrict Tradable Products in Tradovate: Step-by-Step

What a Blocked Order Looks Like

Say you permit only NQ. If you then try to buy ES, the order won't sit as working or partially fill. It's rejected outright, and you'll see a rejection reason on the order. Nothing reaches the exchange. This is what makes the setting a clean hard stop against trading the wrong instrument.

A Few Things to Keep in Mind

If a symbol you allowed suddenly starts rejecting after a contract rollover, reopen the permitted list and confirm the entry still reads the way you expect before you go hunting for other causes.

The restriction also applies to automated orders. If you route entries from TradingView or another signal source, an order for a contract you didn't add gets rejected exactly like a manual click would. That's usually a feature, not a bug, but it's the first thing to check if an automated strategy stops filling on a new instrument. To widen or narrow what's allowed, just come back to Risk Settings and edit the list.

Products Permitted pairs well with the rest of Tradovate's account controls. Combine it with a max position limit to cap size and a daily loss limit to cap risk, and you've fenced in the account on three fronts: what you can trade, how big, and how much you can lose in a day.

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