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Section: What strategies are prohibited?
+ Help Center / Trading rules / What strategies are prohibited?
+ What strategies are prohibited?
+ Updated 18 August 2026
Every rule below comes down to one question: could this strategy realistically be executed on a live exchange? We assess every account on whether it reflects genuine market trading rather than exploiting our simulated environment. Any strategy that only works because the environment is simulated is not permitted, whether listed below or not. Breaching a rule may result in a warning, profit adjustment, account review, or termination.
Section: Coordinated & linked trading
− 1. Coordinated & linked trading
+ Coordinated & linked trading
Your trading must be your own and your accounts must operate independently. You may copy your own trades across your own accounts, but copying other users' trades or signals — manually, via copy services, or EAs — is prohibited, as is coordinating trades with other clients, holding opposing or hedged positions across accounts, group trading, trade signaling, or sharing devices, VPS instances, or IPs to enable linked trading. Where linked activity is detected, all accounts and users involved may be suspended.
Section: Risk discipline & position sizing
− 2. Risk discipline & position sizing
+ Risk discipline & position sizing
Trade like a professional managing real capital. Disproportionate all-in bets on a single position, account rolling, and erratic sizing swings (one micro on one trade, five minis on the next) may be treated as gambling rather than disciplined trading. Keep your sizing consistent with your strategy and balance.
Section: Exploiting the simulated environment
− 3. Exploiting the simulated environment
+ Exploiting the simulated environment
No market manipulation, spoofing, or deceptive conduct designed to distort prices or create false trading conditions. No arbitrage of any kind — latency, hedge, reverse, or rollover. No gap trading around market closures and re-openings, and no profiting from mispriced quotes, feed latency, or external price sources used for an edge.
Section: Scalping & high-frequency abuse
− 4. Scalping & high-frequency abuse
+ Scalping & high-frequency abuse
On EOD, 1-Day-Pass-Plan and Instant accounts, profits from trades closed within 2 minutes are deducted (not a breach). On Flex accounts created after July 21st, at least 50% of your closed trades and 50% of your net profits in each payout cycle must come from trades held longer than 1 minute — otherwise the payout is declined and sub-1-minute profits are deducted. HFT systems, tick scalping, bulk order-entry, and volume inflation are prohibited, and 100+ trades in a single day may trigger a risk review.
Section: Payout & requirement gaming
− 5. Payout & requirement gaming
+ Payout & requirement gaming
Payouts reward sustainable trading. Earning the bulk of your profit in a single day and then trading the bare minimum to hit the required trading days, or placing token trades to fake activity, may result in the payout being withheld, the concentrated day's profit voided, or the account closed.
Section: News trading
− 6. News trading
+ News trading
News trading is fully allowed on challenge accounts. On funded accounts, you may not open a new position from 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after a scheduled high-impact news release. Holding an existing position through the news is fine, as is managing or closing it.
Unsure whether your strategy is compliant? Ask support before you trade it.
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+ Trading rules › Prohibited practices
+ Related articles
+ - 1-Day-Pass-Plan: specifications, rules and payouts
+ - Holding time rules on each plan
+ - Flex Challenge: specifications, rules and payouts
+ - Signals, copy trading and automated strategies
+ - What are the Instant Lite plan specifications?
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Every rule below comes down to one question: could this strategy realistically be executed on a live exchange? We assess every account on whether it reflects genuine market trading rather than exploiting our simulated environment. Any strategy that only works because the environment is simulated is not permitted, whether listed below or not. Breaching a rule may result in a warning, profit adjustment, account review, or termination.
1. Coordinated & linked trading
Your trading must be your own and your accounts must operate independently. You may copy your own trades across your own accounts, but copying other users' trades or signals — manually, via copy services, or EAs — is prohibited, as is coordinating trades with other clients, holding opposing or hedged positions across accounts, group trading, trade signaling, or sharing devices, VPS instances, or IPs to enable linked trading. Where linked activity is detected, all accounts and users involved may be suspended.
2. Risk discipline & position sizing
Trade like a professional managing real capital. Disproportionate all-in bets on a single position, account rolling, and erratic sizing swings (one micro on one trade, five minis on the next) may be treated as gambling rather than disciplined trading. Keep your sizing consistent with your strategy and balance.
3. Exploiting the simulated environment
No market manipulation, spoofing, or deceptive conduct designed to distort prices or create false trading conditions. No arbitrage of any kind — latency, hedge, reverse, or rollover. No gap trading around market closures and re-openings, and no profiting from mispriced quotes, feed latency, or external price sources used for an edge.
4. Scalping & high-frequency abuse
On EOD, 1-Day-Pass-Plan and Instant accounts, profits from trades closed within 2 minutes are deducted (not a breach). On Flex accounts created after July 21st, at least 50% of your closed trades and 50% of your net profits in each payout cycle must come from trades held longer than 1 minute — otherwise the payout is declined and sub-1-minute profits are deducted. HFT systems, tick scalping, bulk order-entry, and volume inflation are prohibited, and 100+ trades in a single day may trigger a risk review.
5. Payout & requirement gaming
Payouts reward sustainable trading. Earning the bulk of your profit in a single day and then trading the bare minimum to hit the required trading days, or placing token trades to fake activity, may result in the payout being withheld, the concentrated day's profit voided, or the account closed.
6. News trading
News trading is fully allowed on challenge accounts. On funded accounts, you may not open a new position from 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after a scheduled high-impact news release. Holding an existing position through the news is fine, as is managing or closing it.
Unsure whether your strategy is compliant? Ask support before you trade it.
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