Prop Firm Rules

Prohibited Practices

Micro Scalping

• Micro scalping refers to a trading tactic where a trader attempts to capture very small price movements using very large size within extremely short time frames, often just a few seconds.
• Accounts may be flagged if more than 50% of profits are generated from trades held for 5 seconds or less. If bad faith activity is confirmed following a manual review, a written warning may be issued.
• Genuine scalping is permitted as long as it reflects realistic market activity and order execution.

Hedging

• Hedging refers to the use of multiple accounts to take opposing positions on the same trade. This tactic artificially reduces risk by ensuring one account profits regardless of the market's direction and is a form of system manipulation, not genuine trading.
• Lucid Trading strictly prohibits all forms of hedging, including hedging across multiple accounts held by the same user.
• Lucid Trading Traders also cannot go long/short different contracts in separate accounts with correlated assets — for example, going long ES in one account and short NQ in a separate account is strictly prohibited.

High-Frequency Trading (HFT)

• High-frequency trading is a type of automated trading strategy that involves submitting and executing a high volume of trades within extremely short time frames, often measured in seconds or milliseconds. These strategies are typically powered by algorithms and designed to exploit minute price inefficiencies at speed.
• To maintain a reliable and equitable trading environment, HFT is strictly prohibited.
• Lucid Trading uses automated detection and may remove profits, close accounts, and restrict access for repeated offenses.

Inactivity Rule

• Accounts that have not been traded resulting in at least a net profit or loss of 1$ within 30 calendar days will be deemed abandoned and will be permanently deleted from our systems.

News Trading Rule

• Allowed for all evaluations and all funded accounts except LucidDaily. For LucidDaily, trading red folder news is a hard breach. You must be flat from 1 minute before through 1 minute after the news event. You may not hold or open new positions through that window.

EA/Bots/Algorithmic Trading

• Ownership: You must be able to prove that you are the sole owner of the bot or strategy, and that no one else has access to or is using it. This ensures that the bot/algorithm is not being shared with other traders or firms.
• We scan to ensure there are no similar orders on other accounts. We will also require a live video of you enabling the code on your own PC.
• Exclusive Use: While you may use the bot on your personal accounts, using it across multiple firms is against Tradeify's policy. The bot should be solely for your own use within Tradeify.
• No High-Frequency Trading (HFT) Bots: Personal bots are allowed as long as they are not high-frequency trading (HFT) bots. Tradeify has specific risk measures in place to detect and monitor such activities.
• Compliance and Verification: Tradeify reserves the right to request information or documentation if our risk measures flag your account for potential violations of these guidelines.

Microscalping (only applicable to the funded stage)

• You must meet BOTH of the below two criteria to pass the microscalping rule:
  • Over 50% of your trades are longer than 10 seconds
  • Over 50% your profit must come from trades held longer than 10 seconds.

Maximum Account Idle Time (Funded and Evaluation Accounts)

• To keep your funded or evaluation account active, you must place at least one trade per week (Monday through Friday). This is per account, not per user.
• Inactive accounts may be closed after an email warning.

Copy Trading

• You may only group trade between accounts you own and manage. Copying other strategies or engaging in copy trading with others is not permitted.
• If you choose to use third-party trade copiers, you do so at your own risk. We are not responsible for any errors they may cause, and support for such issues is beyond our scope.

News Trading, Dollar Cost Averaging, Flipping, and Scaling

• We do not have any rules against or guidelines around trading news events, Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA), flipping, or scaling.

Daily Loss Limit

• NEVER use the Daily Loss Limit as a stop loss — System protection may not be effective during extreme volatility
• Using the DLL as a stop may cause your account to breach the Trailing Max Drawdown due to slippage in volatile markets.

Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA)

• Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) refers to entering a trade with multiple executions at different price points from the initial entry.
• DCA is allowed, but it should always be part of a structured strategy. It is discouraged to "average into oblivion" involving continuously adding to a losing position without a clear strategy, until the trade reaches breakeven or a slight profit.

Hedging & Trading Micros or Minis Rules

• Minis and micros may now be held at the same time.

• Two things still apply:

  • Your combined position must stay within your account's contract limit, counted at 10 micros = 1 mini.
  • A mini and a micro held in opposing directions on the same or a correlated product is still a hedging violation. Long MES + Short NQ is prohibited — not because of contract size, but because it is a hedge.

• This rule applies across ALL accounts under your control, not just within a single account.

More on hedging rule: https://help.tradeify.co/en/articles/10495868-rules-hedging-correlated-products

Simulated Funded Accounts

• An individual user may have up to 5 Simulated Funded Accounts at any time
• A household is also restricted to 5 Simulated Funded Accounts at any time

Scaling (applicable only to Select Funded Accounts):

• https://help.tradeify.co/en/articles/12853966-select-flex-and-select-daily-payout-policies

Other Trading Rules

• https://help.tradeify.co/en/articles/12268167-essential-trading-rules-overview

Trading Hours

• On regular days, a trading day at Tradeify spans from 6:00 PM ET to 5:00 PM ET the next calendar day. All positions must be closed by 4:45 PM Eastern Time Monday through Friday, before the daily maintenance break. If you have open positions when the market closes, Tradeify will automatically close them for you. This automatic closure will NOT result in account failure or loss of your account. However, you may experience slippage or unfavorable fills.
• Holidays have different closing times which are updated by Tradeify on their discord server.

VPN/VPS

• VPN/VPS login is not permitted. After logging in normally, VPS trading is at your own risk. Do not use remote environments to mask identity, device, network or location.

News Trading Rules

• My Funded Futures prohibits exploiting news volatility (e.g., straddles, strangles, or disguised news trades) Tier 1 news has stricter rules: Pro Sim Funded, Rapid EOD Sim Funded and Rapid Sim Funded accounts cannot trade during T1 events, no open positions/orders 2 minutes before or after T1 data release. while Builder accounts are unrestricted. Traders may trade through non-T1 news only if following their normal strategy, but MFFU is not liable for broker disruptions during news.

Automated Trading Protocols and EA's

• High-frequency Trading is not allowed.
• Automated strategies are allowed only if they don’t exploit simulator fills, and live-account automation must follow CME guidelines.

Copy trading and trade copiers

• Allowed across the trader's own MFFU accounts. Copying another trader, collaborative identical or opposite trades across unconnected accounts, and sharing a device with another trader are prohibited. The trader remains responsible for copier errors and compliance.

• Traders may make use of automated trading strategies tailored to their own specific settings so long as these automated tools do not aim to exploit the favorable fills offered in the Simulated Environment.

• Traders trading live accounts with automated trading MUST abide by CME guidelines.

2% Price Limit Rule

• Trading is not allowed when a product is within 2% of its CME price limit to protect traders from extreme volatility. Applies to Sim and Live Funded accounts.
  See details: https://help.myfundedfutures.com/en/articles/9698984-2-price-limit-rule

Cross Instrument Policy

• Single Instrument Limit: Orders exceeding the allowed contract size for a single instrument (e.g., more than 2 contracts on NQ) will be automatically rejected.
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• Cross Instrument Trading: Orders that combine different instruments (e.g., 2 minis and 20 micros) may technically execute even if they exceed the overall limit (e.g., more than 2 contracts in total), but this is not permitted!
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• Intentional Rule Bypass: Deliberate attempts to circumvent position scaling rules are considered a breach and will be treated accordingly.

Overnight Holding

• Not allowed. Trades will automatically close at 4:10 PM / 16:10 EST - It will not result in a breach of the account

Trading Hours

• 18:00-16:10 EST (Eastern Standard Time / NY Time)
• 06:00 PM - 04:10 PM EST (Eastern Standard Time / NY Time)
• At MyFunded Futures, positions will be closed for you during regular non-holiday trading days at 4:10 PM Eastern (the firm labels this EST). During holiday early closes, auto-liquidation does not occur at the early market close. The trader must close positions before the published holiday close or risk an account breach.
• Note: Make sure that you don’t force a trade multiple times on the market after 4:10 PM EST, as this will sometimes cause the order to go through and disqualify your trading account.

Inactivity Rule

• At least one trade is required in every seven consecutive calendar days on Evaluation and Sim Trading Accounts. Under section 7 of the Terms, MFFU may deem an inactive account dormant, close it and treat the closure as a breach.

More prohibited conduct can be found via this link

• https://help.myfundedfutures.com/en/articles/8444599-fair-play-and-prohibited-trading-practices

Balancing Freedom and Responsibility

• Consistency for Sim-Funded Pro Accounts at My Funded Futures explained: https://help.myfundedfutures.com/en/articles/8694840-balancing-freedom-and-responsibility-consistency-for-sim-funded-expert-and-pro-accounts-at-mffu

• 2% Price Limit Rule: This is a restriction that applies when a futures instrument moves within 2% of the CME price limit.

• Auto-close: Positions auto-closed at 3:10 PM CT.

Prohibited Practices:

• Account Sharing: Account sharing occurs when a trader manages multiple accounts or allows another individual to trade on their behalf. This practice is strictly prohibited, as it disrupts fair competition and undermines the integrity of both the Challenge Account and the FundedNext Account.

• Abusing Slow Data Feed: Abusing slow data feed is a practice where traders exploit delayed price updates to execute trades at outdated prices, gaining an unfair advantage over those relying on real-time data. This practice disrupts fair competition and compromises the integrity of the trading environment.

• Account Rolling: Account rolling is a high-risk practice where multiple Challenge accounts are purchased with intention to quick succession of funded phase, with some accounts being intentionally sacrificed while focusing on passing others.

• Exploiting Platform Errors: Exploiting platform errors in Futures Trading refers to taking advantage of system glitches, price discrepancies, or execution delays to secure risk-free profits. This involves manipulating flaws in the trading platform, such as delayed price updates or technical errors, to execute trades at prices that do not reflect real-time market conditions.

• Multi-Order Spam and Coordinated Trading Exploits: Multi-order spam and coordinated trading exploits involve placing and canceling numerous orders in the Depth of Market (DOM) to manipulate market activity or collaborating with others to artificially influence order flow.

• Micro-scalping: Opening and closing trades within 10 seconds to capture rapid, small price movements. The threshold applies to profitable trades only, losing trades are excluded. Measured as the proportion of total recorded profit from trades closed within 10 seconds, evaluated per cycle and per account (a warning or deduction on one account does not carry over to another). At 30%: a compliance warning is issued, no deduction or suspension. At 40% or above (a violation): on a Challenge Account, the ability to reach the profit target and advance is placed on hold, the account stays active and trading continues, and eligibility is restored automatically once the percentage falls back below 40%.

  On a FundedNext Account, the micro-scalping portion of that cycle's profit is deducted in full, the account stays active, and micro-scalping does not result in account termination at any level. If the deduction equals or exceeds the account's net profit for the cycle, no Performance Reward is issued for that cycle and the withdrawal option is disabled.

• Spoofing: Spoofing is a market manipulation technique where a trader places large fake orders (pending orders) to create a false impression of supply or demand, influencing other traders' decisions. These fake orders are canceled before execution, allowing the trader to take advantage of price movements.

• Bracket Strategies: Bracket trading is a strategy where traders set predefined buy & sell (limit/stop orders) to take advantage of any sided market movement, and also set profit-taking and stop-loss levels to manage risk and lock in gains automatically. Exploiting the lack of slippage or using tight brackets to benefit from favorable trade executions is prohibited.

• Order Book Shaping/Layering Strategies: Layering occurs when a trader places multiple buy or sell orders at different price levels to create a false sense of market depth. These orders are not meant to be executed but are intended to mislead other traders into making decisions based on manipulated market conditions.

• Grid Trading: Grid trading in the Futures market involves placing multiple long and short orders at predefined price levels to capitalize on market fluctuations. This strategy aims to capture small price movements within a set range, allowing traders to profit from volatility without relying on market direction. However, due to frequent order placements, grid trading can create excessive market activity and disrupt fair trading conditions.

• Wash Trading: Wash trading in Futures occurs when a trader places bids and asks simultaneously or in quick succession to create artificial market activity without taking on actual market risk. This practice is used to mislead other traders, manipulate prices, or inflate trading volume without genuine market intent.

• Simulated-Execution Exploitation: Simulated-Execution Exploitation is a prohibited trading practice characterized by a sustained pattern of positions exhibiting little to no adverse market movement, indicating that profits were generated primarily through execution advantages within the simulated environment rather than through genuine market risk-taking.

• Tick Scalping: Tick scalping is the repeated practice of opening and closing positions within a very short window to collect a few ticks of profit per trade from favourable simulated fills, often at large or maximum position size.

• Latency Arbitrage: Latency arbitrage is a high-risk trading strategy that exploits price delays between platforms, relying on speed advantages rather than market analysis. This strategy takes advantage of discrepancies in market data updates, allowing traders to enter or exit positions before others react.

• Reverse Hedge: Reverse hedging is a manipulative strategy where a trader opens opposite positions in different accounts to artificially hedge risk, creating an illusion of controlled exposure while exploiting reward structures.

• Hedging with Correlated Instruments: Hedging with correlated instruments involves taking opposite positions in assets that move similarly, reducing actual market exposure while manipulating trading evaluations.

• Gapped or Illiquid Market Trading: Gapped or illiquid market trading involves placing trades during low liquidity periods or exploiting large price gaps to gain an unfair advantage.

• Account Flipping and Inconsistent Contract Execution: Account flipping and inconsistent contract execution involve using high margin to rapidly grow or blow up accounts through reckless, oversized positions.

• Copy Trading and Group Trading: Copy trading refers to replicating trades from another trader or using signal services to execute trades. Group trading occurs when multiple traders collaborate—often in real-time—to achieve specific rewards by executing similar trades simultaneously.

• More Information: https://helpfutures.fundednext.com/en/articles/14298337-what-are-the-prohibited-trading-strategies-of-fundednext-futures

Maximum Performance Reward: Withdrawing 100% causes a Hard Breach due to Maximum Loss Limit reset at the starting balance.

Inactivity Rule:

• Challenge Accounts: Marked as breached and deactivated after 30 consecutive calendar days of no trades.

• FundedNext Accounts: Marked as inactive and deactivated after 30 consecutive calendar days of no trades.

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Live Trading Country Eligibility

• Traders from these countries can purchase accounts, trade, and receive performance rewards from simulated trading. Traders who achieve live eligibility while residing in one of these countries are contacted directly by FundedNext's Risk Desk to review available options.

  Algeria, Angola, Antarctica, Barbados, Benin, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada (except Ontario), Christmas Island, Clipperton Island, Cocos Islands, Coral Sea Islands, Croatia, Cyprus (North), Dhekelia, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Fiji, French West Indies, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Heard & McDonald Islands, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Macedonia, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Mariana Islands, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Qatar, Romania, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovenia, South Africa, St Vincent & Grenadines, Suriname, Svalbard & Jan Mayen, Tanzania, Togo, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Western Balkans, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe"

Exploiting System, Pricing, or Latency Errors

• Any attempt to take advantage of errors, delays, mispricings, or lags in the broker's feed, the charting platform, or any associated systems will result in immediate account breach
  • This includes latency arbitrage and price manipulation

Use of Insider or Non-Public Information

• Trading based on information not available to the general public, including insider news or confidential financial disclosures, is prohibited

Front-Running

• Placing trades with the intent to benefit from anticipated price movement based on trades executed elsewhere (e.g., in another account or at another firm) is not allowed

Hedging Between Accounts

• You may not hedge one account against another, whether within Top One Futures or across other prop firms or brokers
• All trades must reflect independent trading strategies without cross-account hedging

Unauthorized Account Access

• Only the registered account owner is permitted to trade
• Allowing friends, family, or third parties to access or trade on your account violates this policy

Minimum Trade Duration (10-Second Rule)

• To protect against ultra-high-frequency scalping and promote responsible trading:
  • All trades must remain open longer than 10 seconds
  • 10.00 seconds = violation, 10.01 seconds = acceptable
  • Closing any portion of a trade before 10 seconds violates this rule
  • Adding to a trade (e.g., scaling in) within 10 seconds is permitted
• Occasional minor violations are tolerable, but if:
  • Anywhere close to 50% or more of your total and/or withdrawable profits
  • OR, anywhere close to 50% or more of your individual trades
  • violate this rule, all profits associated with these trades will be removed

Trading That Risks Broker Relationships

• Trading strategies or behaviors that may harm our broker relationships—such as abnormal flow, slippage targeting, or mass quote stuffing—are grounds for account closure

Trading That May Create Regulatory Concerns

• Any activity that could cause regulatory exposure for Top One Futures or our liquidity partners is not tolerated

Externally Marketed Challenge-Passing Strategies

• Using any publicly available or purchased system advertised to help traders "pass challenges" is not allowed
• All strategies must be developed and executed by the trader

Rolling, Churning, or Gambling Accounts

• Creating multiple evaluation accounts in a short period and using a batch-style approach, such as intentionally letting most accounts fail while focusing on passing just one, is strictly prohibited
• Excessive account creation within a short timeframe, especially when done repeatedly, is considered manipulative and will be flagged by our systems
• We do not support gambling behavior
  • This includes consistently breaching accounts within 24–48 hours of purchase and then immediately repurchasing new accounts, indicative of toxic trading strategies
  • Such actions are not indicative of consistency or skill but instead reflect reckless trading strategies intended to exploit asymmetric risk at scale
  • Traders engaging in this type of behavior are not aligned with our long-term vision and may be permanently disqualified
• Examples of disqualifiable churning behavior:
  • Purchasing multiple batch accounts and breaching newly purchased accounts within 1–2 days of trading and repeating the cycle
  • Example Day 1: Trader purchased 9 accounts, all breached within 24 hours
  • Example Day 2: Trader purchased 7 more accounts, again all breached within 24 hours
  • This shows no sustainable risk management or strategy and instead indicates a trial-and-error "gambling" style of trading
  • Attempting to maximize short-term sim funded payout potential through unsustainable trading approaches

Arbitrage with Other Firms

• Attempting to gain an advantage by arbitraging trades across Top One Futures and another firm or platform is prohibited

Automated Trading / Expert Advisors (EAs)

• Use of any automated trading system, script, bot, Expert Advisor (EA), or high-frequency execution tool is strictly forbidden
• All trades must be entered manually or semi-manually by the trader

Copy Trading or Group Trading

• Each trader must operate independently
• The following are not allowed:
  • Executing the same trades as another person or account
  • Coordinated trading with relatives or friends
  • Following signal services, Telegram groups, Discord calls, or any shared trade alert system
• You are not allowed to mix account types in any copy trading setup
  • The leader and follower accounts must be the same type and value
• Note on Copy Trading Between Firms:
  • Traders can use third-party copy trading platforms
  • While Top One Futures does not prohibit copy trading between your own accounts at different firms, all trade decisions must originate from activity on our platform
  • Trades have to begin from your Top One Futures account and reflect your own strategy and discretion

Intentional Account Breaching (Sim Farming)

• Traders may not attempt to deliberately fail or breach funded accounts to avoid transitioning to live trading, remain on simulated accounts, or game system protections

Additional Resources

• All prohibited practices in detail can be found via this link: Prohibited Trading Practices

Overnight Holding

• Overnight trading is NOT allowed
• All positions must be closed by 4:10 PM EST each trading day
• Any open trades after this time may trigger forced liquidation and lead to potential account penalties

News Trading

• INSTANT Sim Funded, Ignite Instant Funding and all evaluations: Allowed without any restrictions
• Elite Access funded accounts and Elite Daily funded accounts: Not allowed 2 minutes before and after high impact news
• You may hold a trade during a news event if:
  • The position was opened before the 2-minute pre-news window
• However:
  • If a trade is closed inside the restricted window → violation
  • If you modify stops or targets inside the window → violation
  • Your trade must not be closed by any means during the restricted news window
• If a funded trader violates the news rule:
  • Profits generated from the violating trade may be removed
  • The payout request may be denied
  • The account may be flagged for review
  • Repeated violations may lead to stricter action
• News violations do not automatically result in a hard breach unless abuse is detected

Auto-close:

• Open positions auto-closed at 4:10 PM EST

Trading Hours

• Hours: 6:00 PM EST and 4:10 PM EST the next day, Monday through Friday
• Daily Break: There is a daily 1-hour break from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM EST, during which trading is paused
• After the break, the next session opens

Inactivity Rule

• All Sim Funded traders must place at least one trade every 14 calendar days to keep their account in good standing

IP Address Restrictions

• IP Address Restrictions Explained

Minimum Trading Days

Evaluation (Trading Combine):

• 2 Days (tied to the 55% consistency score)

Express Funded (standard Path):

• 5 winning days of $150+

Express Funded (Consistency Path):

• 3 days with 40% consistency target

News Trading:

• News Trading: Allowed, subject to CPI restrictions. Starting September 11, 2026,
• CPI restriction window (5 min before/after release, ~7:25-7:35 AM CT):
• Minis affected - ES, RTY, YM, NQ, NKD, GC, SI, HG, PL (no new opening transactions)
• Micros affected - MES, M2K, MYM, MNQ, MGC, SIL, MHG (opening transactions limited by account size tier)

Copy Trading:

• Trade copying can only be applied to accounts within the same trading environment. you can copy trades from a trading combine to an Express Funded Account, and from an Express from a trading combine to an Express Funded Account, and from an Express Funded Account to a Trading combine. Live Funded Accounts cannot utilize the Trade Copier.
• Cross-account hedging is prohibited at Topstep.

Automated strategies and EA's:

• Automated strategies (EAs) are allowed, but traders are fully responsible for their setup and performance. Bots must comply with all trading rules no manipulative or unfair software and TopstepX only supports automation via API access.‍

‍On Express Funded account‍

• ‍After payout the capital remaining in your account will be the maximum amount you will be able to lose. Your maximum loss limit will always be set to $0 after your payout.

Inactivity:

• Express Funded Account must have at least one trade every 30 days to remain open.

Prohibited Trading Strategies:

• Account Stacking
• Intentional Account Depletion
• Terms Violation
• Use of Manipulative Tools (AI or Automation)
• Abnormal Market Behavior
• Trading Outside Market Range
• News Event Exploitation
• More Prohibited trading conduct can be found via this link

VPN Rule:

• The use of VPNs, Proxy Services, TOR, geo-location obfuscation, and other potential identity masking services are not permitted

Trading Combine/Reset Purchase Limits

• No limit on regular $50K, $100K and $150K Trading Combine purchases
• Traders are allowed 2 Resets per account per calendar day.

The Do's and Don'ts of SIM Fills

• Topstep prohibits any attempts to exploit or manipulate the simulated environment, and may reject profits if abuse is detected.
• Practices like scalping algorithms, rapid-fire trades, impossible fills, or unrealistic stop-loss execution are not allowed.
• The rule targets intentional abusive behavior, not normal trading and exists to ensure traders focus on real, consistent skill development.
• see details

2% Price Limit Rule:

• Topstep do not allow market participation when a product is trading within 2% of a Price Limit. Applies to all levels of Topstep's program.

XFA Size and Payout Path Lock:

• Your Express Funded Account size matches the Trading Combine you passed and is locked both before and after activation. At XFA activation you choose your Payout path, Standard or Consistency, and once selected that choice cannot be changed.

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Permanent Topstep Labs offers

• The $25K Static Trading Combine, $250K Freedom Trading Combine, $50K Static Drawdown Trading Combine and $1.5K Challenge - Powered Up are available for purchase any time.
• Purchase limit: up to 5 of each plan per trader per month.
• All four have a one-time purchase fee. Resets are not available. Activation is free.

$25K Static Trading Combine

• Evaluation target: $2000
• Static Maximum Loss Limit: $1000
• Mandatory Daily Loss Limit: $500 in evaluation and XFA
• Evaluation expiration: 90 days from purchase

$250K Freedom Trading Combine

• Evaluation target: $15000
• Maximum Loss Limit: $10000, trailing end of day
• Mandatory evaluation Daily Loss Limit: $5000
• Evaluation expiration: 90 days from purchase
• XFA: Standard payout path only

$50K Static Drawdown Trading Combine

• Evaluation target: $4000
• Static Maximum Loss Limit: $2000
• Mandatory Daily Loss Limit: $1000 in evaluation and XFA
• Evaluation expiration: 90 days
• Inactivity: closes after 30 days with no trades

$1.5K Challenge - Powered Up

• Challenge Round target: $1500
• Payout Round target: $1500, in a new account starting at $0
• Static Maximum Loss Limit: $500 in each round
• No Daily Loss Limit, Consistency Target or Minimum Trading Days
• Each round expires after 90 days and closes after 30 days with no trades.
• Fixed $1500 payout after the Payout Round, then the account closes.
• No path to a Live Funded Account.

Labs product restrictions

• $25K Static: restricted products have a ceiling of 1 mini / 12 micros.
• $250K Freedom: restricted energies have a ceiling of 15 minis / 156 micros. SIL and MHG: 12 micros. SI, HG and PL: 0.
• $50K Static: MCL and MGC: 25 lots. CL, GC, HO, QM, RB, MHG and SIL: 2 lots. PL, HG and SI: 0.
• Powered Up: MCL and MGC: 12 contracts. CL, GC, HO, QM, RB, MHG and SIL: 1 contract. HG, PL and SI: 0.

Labs Tier 1 news restrictions

• Event windows cover CPI, FOMC rate decision, FOMC press conference, NFP/Unemployment and PPI, from 5 minutes before to 5 minutes after.
• New opening transactions in affected equity-index minis and metals minis are blocked.
• Evaluation micro ceiling during the event window: 25K Static: 1; 250K Freedom: 15; 50K Static: 2.
• SIL and MHG have separate limits. XFA limits can be lower under the Scaling Plan.
  Existing positions may be managed and reducing TP/SL brackets remain accepted.

Automated Trading Strategies

• Expert Advisors (EAs) are allowed but require pre-approval.

Copy Trading

• Allowed with Volumetrica Trade Copier, DeepCharts web copier and 3rd party copying softwares

Trading Rules

• No stop-loss requirements.
• News trading is allowed.

Consistency Rule (40%)

• Premium EOD and Legacy NYC: the evaluation consistency rule is based on 40% of total profits, not the fixed profit target.
• Static: 50% evaluation rule (daily profit cap at 50% of the target). No consistency requirement once SimFunded.

Minimum Trading Days

• Traders must complete at least 3 trading days during the evaluation stage.

Inactivity Rules

• During the evaluation phase, traders must place at least 1 trade per week to remain active.

• During evaluation: missing a week deactivates your account. In your Simfunded account: missing a week pauses it — you remain eligible for profits and payouts but need to reactivate.

DCA/Martingale Rule

• Reasonable scaling and averaging are allowed. Repeatedly adding size to losing positions, especially as a routine part of most trades, counts as excessive martingale-style trading and may lead to an account review.

Hedging

• Hedging is not permitted. This includes hedging the same instrument across multiple accounts, such as being long NQ in one account and short NQ in another; hedging through correlated instruments, such as being long NQ and short ES; and coordinating with another trader or group of traders to create offsetting positions across separate accounts. This rule applies whether the accounts belong to the same trader or to different traders acting together.

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TL Drop #2

• Hyperprop only. Trading hours: 6pm-4pm ET the following day.
• No consistency rule or minimum trading days.
• EOD trailing drawdown: $1000, locks at $25000.
• Daily loss: $600 soft pause; waived on days starting at $25600 or above.
• Funded daily earnings: 60%/80% splits capped at $2000; 90% split has no cap.

Minimum days:

• No

News:

• Yes - Signature and Zero, both stages.

EAs/bots/AI/semi-automation/HFT:

• No

Copying:

• Yes - own accounts only

Inactivity:

• one opened and closed trade every 7 days

Trading:

• 17:15-15:10 CT. Auto-close: Yes - 15:10 CT

Tick scalping:

• at least 50% of profit from trades held 10+ seconds

Positions within 2% of a product lock limit:

• No

Prohibited:

• illiquid/gapped-market exploitation, slow-feed/price errors, all-or-nothing trading, cross-account hedging, account rolling, illiquid-hour micro-scalping, wrong-month contracts, trader cooperation and CME-rule breaches.

Violations:

• termination/refund, possible funded-account denial/closure and lost profits; restrictions or withheld payouts may apply.

Minimum Trading Days

• Prime - Evaluation: 1 day to Pass | Sim Funded: 3 wining days of $200 or more each day
• Premier Plus(EOD & Intraday) - Evaluation: 1 day to Pass (FastPass) or 2 days to Pass (Standard) | Sim Funded: 5 winning days of $200 or more each day
• Velocity - Evaluation: 3 days to pass | Sim Funded:3 winning days of $200 or more each day. - Removed with Daily Payout Add-on
• S2F: 7 wining days of $200 or more each day

Trading Day Definition

• A “Trading Day” is defined as at least one trade placed between 6:00 PM EST/EDT and 5:00 PM EST/EDT the following day.

News Trading

• Allowed to trade through all news events across all account types, including Tier 1 events, as long as proper risk management is maintained

Expert Advisor

• EAs and automated/algorithmic trading are not permitted — all trading must be manual and human-driven.

Copy Trading

• You are welcome to use any copy trading tool of your choice. However, please note that Funded Futures Family is not liable for any losses incurred due to a malfunction of the tool.

Trading Hours

• Trading is allowed anytime markets are open except between 4:15 PM – 6:00 PM EST; all trades are auto-closed at 4:15 PM EST if not manually closed.

Microscalping Policy

• Micro-scalping is permitted at Funded Futures Family on both Evaluation and Funded accounts. Over 50% of your trades and over 50% of your total profits must come from positions held longer than 10 seconds.

Inactivity Rule

• At least one trade per week (Monday–Friday), held for a minimum of 10 seconds, is required per account. Accounts idle for one whole trading week or longer are automatically closed and cannot be restored.

CME 2% Price Limit Rule

• Trading is prohibited when a product is within 2% of its CME price limit on Sim Funded and Live Funded accounts. Failing to close a trade during a price limit extension results in account ineligibility. Traders are responsible for monitoring the % Net Change on their platform to avoid breaching this rule.

Prohibited Practices

• Martingale
• Automated Trading / EAs / Bots
• IP Manipulation
• Shared Account Access
• Multi-User Control
• Exceeding Maximum Accounts Per Household/IP Group
• Exploiting system discrepancies, delays, or technical issues, as well as using manipulative strategies like hedging to artificially game the system
• See details: https://intercom.help/funded-futures-family/en/articles/15892413-bots-algorithmic-trading-policy

Funded Account Activation

• Prime, Premier+, and Velocity: Activate the Funded Account within 7 days after passing the Evaluation Account. If not activated within this timeframe, the account will be closed.

Prestige

• Strictly invite-only; traders cannot apply for or request access. Passing transitions the trader to FFF Pro with no Sim-funded payouts. Prestige is the only re-entry path after exiting or failing the Professional or Live Stage.

Base

• Evaluation: 4 days to Pass | Sim Funded: No qualifying trading days required

News Trading

• Not Allowed - All positions are auto-closed 2 minutes before Tier 1 news releases and markets reopen 2 minutes after. No account failure for accidental news trades, but traders found to be ignoring these guidelines and abusing the policy will lose their account. Traders can view the Tier 1 data release calendar, the Investing.com Economic Calendar, and the CME Calendar in the TradeDay Members area.

Copy Trading Rule

• Copy trading is permitted across 2 to 10 Evaluation and Funded Sim accounts in any combination, subject to the 5 active Funded Sim limit. Up to 5 Funded Live accounts may copy each other. Copies from personal external accounts into TradeDay are allowed. Funded Live positions must be separate from Evaluation and Funded Sim positions; simultaneous open positions across these groups are prohibited even without a copier. One username and one user per household.

Expert Advisors

• Expert advisors are allowed; however, algos and bots purchased from a third party and employed by the trader are forbidden. If multiple users are making the same trades, then all the accounts will be shut down and the users suspended.

Gap Trading

• Entering trades specifically in gapped, illiquid markets to benefit from isolated/stray fills are not allowed.

Hedging prohibited

• Simultaneously going long in one account and short in another account in the same product.

VPN Usage

• VPS use is not allowed. Disable VPNs and other IP-masking tools when required and complete one comparable trading day from the registered location for security checks.

High Frequency Trading (HFT)

• Using automated trading systems designed to scalp at an extremely high frequency is prohibited.
• Strategies that produce more than 200 trades in a day is prohibited.
• Not allowed to use any trading strategy intended to exploit or create errors in the services, such as errors in the display of prices or delays in their updates.
• Trading an excessive or unrealistic number of contracts in the day is not allowed.

Inactivity rule

• TradeDay does not charge inactivity fees or have minimum trading requirements.
• However, Tradovate has its own account inactivity system. If a user does not log into their Tradovate account for more than one calendar month, Tradovate will automatically archive the account. When this happens, the account is removed from the trading platform and cannot be recovered by the firm or reactivated. At this time the account will be considered failed and a user will need to purchase a reset or buy a new account if they wish to continue trading.
• Any TradeDay account dormant or inactive for 30 days may be offboarded. After a Funded Live offer, submit the required documents within 30 days or the offer is withdrawn.

Circuit Breaker Rule

• Funded Traders are not permitted to trade within 2% of a price limit. Traders in breach of this policy will lose their funded account.

Drawdown Lock

• The trailing max drawdown trails upward until it reaches the starting balance, then locks permanently. Applies to evaluations and Funded Sim accounts.

Trading Hours Explained

• https://tradeday.freshdesk.com/en/support/solutions/articles/103000018874-what-is-the-permitted-trading-times-guideline-

Prohibited Trade Practices

• More Prohibited Trade Practices can be found via this link: https://tradeday.freshdesk.com/en/support/solutions/articles/103000121031-prohibited-trade-practices

Auto-close

• TradeDay auto-liquidates at 3:50 pm CT and 2 minutes before Tier 1 data releases; markets reopen 2 minutes after the release. For products with a different close, the trader must be flat with no working orders 10 minutes before that product closes. Do not rely on automatic liquidation.

Order Splitting

• Deliberately duplicating limit or stop orders for the same instrument, side and price at the same time or within a short window to exploit execution is prohibited. Legitimate scaling at different prices, normal partial fills and platform-generated exits are allowed.

Funded Live Account Loss

• A 3-month cooling-off period applies before applying for new evaluations. No additional accounts may be purchased while a Funded Live account is active.