Prop Firm Rules

Price Limit Rule:

• Traders are prohibited from trading any product within 2% of a CME price limit

Dollar Cost Averaging:

• DCA is allowed provided it’s not your primary trading strategy.

Account Rolling:

• Purchasing and trading multiple challenge accounts aggressively with the hope of suceeding in atleast one is prohibited.

AI and Bots:

• Fully automated trading using AI or bots is not permitted. We want to see traders applying their skills rather than relying on algorithms to do the work.

Order Fill Manipulation:

• Placing multiple limit orders at the same price to manipulate order fills is strictly forbidden. This disrupts the fairness of our environment.

Exploiting Market Gaps:

• Attempting to profit from isolated fills in gapped or illiquid markets goes against the spirit of fair trading. We expect traders to avoid taking advantage of these market conditions.

Account flipping:

• Any pattern of trading activity involving a payout request, account breach, followed by another payout request, breach, and so on, is not allowed. This is an example of flipping. A trader’s goal should be to reach and maintain a sustainable live account.

No Slippage Exploitation:

• Using tight brackets and exploiting the absence of slippage to gain an unfair advantage is prohibited. Trading should mimic real-world conditions as closely as possible.

Hedging or reverse trading:

• Hedging and reverse trading cannot be conducted using different accounts, multiple users, or within the same challenge.

Multiple Countries Access:

• Traders accessing their accounts from multiple countries (e.g., a trader logging in from the USA and then Vietnam) may be flagged for potential account sharing or unauthorized account management.

IP sharing:

• Multiple accounts belonging to different traders using the same IP address is prohibited.

Copy Trading:

• Copying trades from other traders’ accounts is prohibited. However, you are allowed to copy trades between your own accounts without any restrictions.

Collaborative Trading:

• Coordinating with others to execute the same or opposite strategies across multiple accounts, often known as “Group Trading,” is not allowed. Each trader should trade independently.

News trading:

• News trading restrictions apply to all funded accounts. But violating this will no longer be a hard breach. If a trade lands inside a restricted news window, that trade will simply be voided.

Prohibited Activities:

• Straddles/strangles or disguised news trades to exploit volatility.

For Tier 1 news

• All trades must be closed at least 2 minutes before the news release.
• Trades can only be reopened no sooner than 2 minutes afterward the news have ended (we also consider 2 minutes of news duration for a total of 6 minutes, 2 before and 4 after the release of the data)

For non-Tier 1 news

• Open trades can remain, but new trades around (just before, during, or immediately after) the event are discouraged to avoid volatility risks.

Inactivity Rule:

• Standard inactivity rule: Accounts are terminated if no trade is placed for 29 days.

For Instant accounts purchased after November 23, 2025:

• Must place at least one trade every 7 days, or the account will be breached.
• Accounts remain active with recurring monthly payments, even without trades, but regular activity is encouraged to avoid termination.
• Terminated accounts can be recovered by settling all outstanding payments (requires prior contact for pauses due to special reasons)

Trading Hours:

• Futures trading operates from 6:00 PM EST to 4:55 PM EST the following day. For example, if the Futures market opens at 6:00 PM EST on Monday, the trading session will run until 4:55 PM EST on Tuesday, marking the close of that day’s session. The Futures market is closed from Friday at 4:55 PM EST until Sunday at 6:00 PM EST. There may also be scheduled closures for holidays, which will be announced in advance.

Position Closing Requirement:

• If trades are not closed by 4:55 PM EST, the system will automatically liquidate them. Ensure all trades are closed on time to maintain control over your positions.

Overnight Positions:

• Overnight positions are not permitted. All positions must be closed by 4:55 PM EST daily.

Scalping Rule:

• FuturesElite allows microscalping within certain limits:
• Trades executed in less than 10 seconds (Min 11 seconds).
• Trades equal to or less than 1 points on NQ (Nasdaq 100) futures or the equivalent on other instruments.

Evaluation:

• If scalping trades exceed 50% of the target, the account will not be eligible for an upgrade to a funded account.

Sim Funded:

• Scalping transactions on funded accounts do not trigger a violation.
• Scalping trades are not removed from your payout request, but they will be removed from your leftover profit/buffer chosen by the user. If the scalped amount is higher than the remaining buffer, the account will be breached.
• Fair Play and Prohibited Trading Practices Explained
• If prohibited trading practices are detected at FuturesElite, the account may be immediately terminated without warning, any profits from those practices will be voided, and passed evaluations may be reviewed to prevent progression to the funded phase

Giveaway accounts Rules

• Giveaway accounts follow the same guidelines and rules as all other accounts. The only difference is in the payout cap, which is set at 2%, the profit target at 8% and the days between payouts set at 21, regardless of the plan or account size, and the consistency is set at 50% and set only in the challenge phase of your account.

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 your own evaluation and funded sim accounts. Trades can also be copied from a personal external account into your TradeDay account. Funded Live and Funded Sim accounts must be traded separately, copy trading between them is not permitted. Copy trading between 2 or 3 Funded Sim accounts only is allowed.

Consistency Rule

• Profits during one single trading day should not exceed 30% of the profit target. There is no consistency objective for funded traders.

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

• Using a VPN or VPS to mask the location of trading is not allowed.

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.

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

News Trading

During the Test phase:

• Allowed with no restrictions.

On Pro and Pro+:

• All PRO/PRO+ Accounts must be out of all open positions and have no open orders one minute before, during and one minute after any prohibited news event.

Prohibited News Events (All Products)

• • FOMC statements/announcements Wednesdays at 2:00 PM ET (FED speakers and FOMC meeting minutes are allowed).

• NON-Farm payroll (NFP). (These events occur on Friday’s at 8:30am eastern, once per month.)

• Consumer Price Index – CPI

• In addition to these news events, the following news events are prohibited for specific instruments:

  • News event: crude oil inventories. Prohibited product - crude oil
  • News event: bond auctions. Prohibited products - 10 year note, 30 year bond

• You can check all upcoming news events at forexfactory.com

Expert Advisor

• Not allowed.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is permitted for managing your own accounts only using approved copiers (Tradesyncer, TradeCopia, Affordable Indicators, Replikanto Compliance Edition, and platform-native tools). Coordinating trades across different users, accounts not owned by you, or any form of risk-neutralizing activity is strictly prohibited.

No Counter Positions

• You cannot hold open positions in opposite directions within the same product or closely related products across any accounts under the same beneficial control.
  Violation results to; Automatic liquidation and closure of affected accounts | Forfeiture of profits | Restrictions or permanent bans depending on severity

Inactivity Rule

• In order to keep the PRO Account, you will be required to trade at least one day per calendar week (Sunday-Friday). A “traded day” is defined as a day where at least one round-trip has been executed on any permitted instrument.

Trading Hours

• Trading window: 6 PM Eastern – 5 PM Eastern

• All open positions are automatically closed at 4:55 PM EST — accounts are no longer failed for forgetting to close positions. This applies to all Tradovate accounts automatically, and for Rithmic, it applies to all new accounts created from 6 AM EST May 6 2026 onward.

• If the market for a specific product closes before 5 PM Eastern and trader cannot exit before the deadline, the account will be liquidated.

• Market hours can change due to holidays. It is the trader’s responsibility to monitor holiday schedules. Missing a holiday-adjusted close time will result in account liquidation.

CME Price Limit

• It is the trader's responsibility to be out of all trades before these limits are hit. If a price limit is hit, and you have not exited your position, this will cost you to lose your pro account. The CME has a list of the price limits for each particular day. They are listed here: CME PRICE LIMITS

Drawdown

• Drawdown is the total amount you can lose on your account. The drawdown is End of Day on test accounts, meaning it updates at the end of the trading day (5PM EST).

• On the PRO accounts, the drawdown is intraday, meaning it trails your unrealized profit in real time.

• In PRO+, the drawdown is End of Day, the same as in the test. The drawdown across all three account types will STOP trailing once it has reached the initial account balance.

• Once traders pass the Test, they have the option to reset the Pro account up to 3 times.

Max Loss Type

• Test & Pro+ Stage: EOD Trailing

• Pro Stage: Intraday Trailing

• Pro Account Reset Option: Once traders pass the Test, they have the option to reset the Pro account up to 3 times.

Live accounts (PRO+ accounts) overview

• Copy trading: Allowed for up to 5 accounts.
• Drawdown type: End-of-day drawdown.
• No payout restrictions, No consistency rule.
• No daily loss limit.
• No buffer zone.
• 90% profit split.

Live accounts (PRO+ accounts) Explained:

• https://takeprofittraderhelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/15171929948829-Advantages-of-PRO

Key Rules

• Evaluation trading hours: All positions and working orders must be closed from 3:50 PM until 5:00 PM CT.
• GF/HE/LE: Positions and working orders must be closed from 1:05 PM until 5:00 PM CT.
• XC/XK/ZC/ZL/ZM/ZS/ZW: Positions and working orders must be closed from 7:45–8:30 AM CT and 1:20–5:00 PM CT.
• Trading is permitted only during the applicable exchange session; observe asset-specific and holiday closures.
• Over the course of the Evaluation (Challenge phase),no single trading day can exceed 30% or more of your total PnL.

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• Copy Trading: Not allowed

• EAs: Not allowed

• News Trading: Allowed

• Minimum trading days: None

• Inactivity: 5 consecutive trading days (On funded accounts only)

Prohibited Trading Practices

• Platform manipulation: Employing strategies designed to take advantage of or generate errors within the platform, such as price display errors or delays in price updates

• Disruptive trading practices: Engaging in disruptive trading practices, including spoofing

• Unrealistic contract volume: Executing an unrealistic number of contracts in a single day

• Collaborative manipulation: Collaborating to manipulate or abuse the trading environment, which may include trading between connected accounts, multiple accounts across different parties, or executing trades that hedge or pool risks among unrelated accounts

• Software and automation: Utilizing software, artificial intelligence, or ultra-fast data entry techniques that could potentially manipulate the trading environment or provide an unfair advantage

• Non-market-aligned trading: Trading in a manner that does not align with actual market practices in the relevant futures markets or could potentially cause financial or other types of harm to Earn2Trade

• Technical exploitation: Using tools or strategies that negatively impact the site's functionality or exploit any of its technical flaws

• Bypassing restrictions: Bypassing geographical or other technical restrictions

• Third-party trading: Trading on behalf of others or sharing incentives through any form of business arrangement

Earnings:

• During the earning season, the User will not be allowed to hold an overnight position on a reporting company and or any related instrument whose primary purpose is to track, mirror, or provide leveraged/inverse exposure to a reporting company

Copy Trading:

• Flex: You may copy trades between a maximum of two accounts. All trades must be executed directly by the trader. The use of external or automated third-party copying tools/software is strictly prohibited.

• Flex Day Trading: Accounts must be paired according to the following size requirements:

  • $5K ↔ $25K
  • $5K ↔ $50K
  • $25K ↔ $50K

  A $50K account may be paired with only one $25K or $5K account.

• Flex Swing: Only $2K and $10K accounts may be paired.

• Edge: You may copy trades between a maximum of three Edge accounts, including between $50K and $100K accounts.

• Edge account types: Copying is allowed between Edge Evaluation and Edge Pro accounts.

• Cross-program copying: Copying between Edge accounts and any other account type, including Flex Day Trading and Flex Swing, is not allowed.

• Manual Copy Trading: Allowed for evaluation and funded accounts

TraderEvolution, Copy Trading Feature

• The rules for the TraderEvolution copy trading feature follow the same guidelines. However, this platform feature is permitted only on evaluation accounts and is not allowed on funded accounts.
• Take Profit or Stop Loss orders will not be automatically created for the follower accounts.

Minimum positions:

• Day Trade Flex: 10
• Swing: 5

Trade Duration:

• There must be at least a 30-second gap between every buy-sell or sell-buy order.

Trade Range:

• All profitable trades must yield at least 10 cents per share in profit.

  • Example: Buy at $50.10, sell at $50.20 (at least).

End of Day:

• 10 minutes before the end of the day, we will fully liquidate your account (open positions and pending orders) in the Day Trade programs.

Permitted Order Types During Pre-Market, Post-Market, and Overnight Sessions:

• During both swing trading and day trading, the rules for order types in pre-market and post-market hours are the same: There are two separate parts to extended hour sessions:

Overnight Execution Off (Trades executed via Nasdaq)

• Standard pre-market and post-market hours. These follow the regular exchange schedules (such as NYSE and Nasdaq). During these times, only limit type orders can be executed.
• The following Orders may be used: Buy Limit, Sell Limit, Stop Limit, Take-Profit (TP)
• The following Orders may not be used: Market, Stop, Stop-Loss (SL)

Overnight Execution On (Trades executed via Blue Ocean)

• Trade The Pool offers extended 24/5 trading via Blue Ocean.
• The following Orders may be used:
  • Market, Stop, Stop-Loss (SL), Buy Limit, Sell Limit, Stop Limit, Take-Profit (TP)

Earnings Announcement Liquidation Policy:

• Trades will be automatically liquidated at 3:50 PM ET on any instrument with a scheduled earnings report that day.

Halt restrictions:

• No trading on an effectively halted symbol (including during earnings). After a halt is lifted, wait at least 1 minute before placing opening trades.

Buffer rule (Funded phase):

• Once you achieve a profit of 3X the daily pause allowance, the initial max loss is reset to the initial account size. This means that as profits increase, your max loss buffer rises accordingly.

Volatility restrictions:

• The volume of any opening trades (opening or adding to a position) must not exceed 5% of the trading volume in the previous one-minute candle for that instrument.

Inactivity rule (Day Trade):

• A 14-day inactivity rule will be applied to all FLEX phases (evaluation and funded)

Volume Requirement for Overnight Positions:

• To hold a position overnight, the stock must have an average daily volume of at least 500,000 shares (last 14 days).

Minimum Trading Days

• None

News Trading

• You can trade news on E8 Zero Futures without any restrictions (This includes SimFi™ challenge account (phase-1) and SimFI™ performance Account)

Expert Advisors

• All forms of automated trading are prohibited, including EAs, trading bots, AI tools, and high-frequency trading (300+ trades per day). Semi-automated trading is also not permitted.

Copy Trading

• E8 Markets allows copy trading across all accounts, including SimFi™ challenge and SimFI™ Performance accounts or personal accounts, as long as these accounts belong to you.

Inactivity rule

• There is no time limit, but you need to place and close at least one trade every 7 days.

Trading Hours

• Trading is permitted between 17:15–15:10 CT. All open positions are force-closed daily at 15:10 CT.

Prohibited Strategies

• Tick Scalping
• A minimum of 50% of all profits must come from trades with a holding period of no less than 10 seconds.
• 2% of a product's lock limit.
• Holding a position within 2% of a product's lock limit is prohibited

More on Prohibited strategies

• Gapped / Illiquid Market Trading, Exploiting Slow Data Feeds, Exploiting Price Display Errors, Semi-Automated / Fully-Automated Trading (Bots, AI, HFT), Holding Positions Within 2% of Lock Limit, Irresponsible / All-or-Nothing Trading, Hedging Across Multiple Users or Accounts, Tick Scalping (50%+ profits must come from trades held 10+ seconds), Account Rolling, Micro-Scalping During Illiquid Hours, Trading Incorrect Month Contracts, Cooperation with Other Traders, Non-Compliance with CME Group Rules
• Violations result in account termination with fee refund, potential denial or closure of SimFi™ Performance accounts, loss of accrued profits, and E8 Markets reserves the right to de-risk strategies, impose restrictions, or withhold payouts.
• See details

Minimum Trading Days

• Instant Classic: 7 winning days of 0.2% profit or more each day

• Flex:

  • Evaluation: 2 days
  • Sim Funded: 5 winning days of 0.2% profit or more each day

• EOD:

  • Evaluation: 2 days
  • Sim Funded: 7 winning days of 0.2% profit or more each day

• 1-Day Pass:

  • Evaluation: 1 day
  • Sim Funded: 5 winning days of 0.2% profit or more each day

News Restrictions

• Challenge: No restrictions. Trade freely around news.

• Funded: 2-minute buffer around high-impact news. No opening, closing, or triggering pending orders within 2 minutes before or after a scheduled release. If a position was opened before the 2-minute pre-news window began, you are permitted to hold it through the event. If you execute an order within the restricted timeframe, any profits generated will be deducted upon payout request.

Expert Advisors

• Personal automated strategies and EAs are allowed on EOD, One Day Pass, Flex and Instant Classic, as long as they are consistent with your trading style and do not exploit system vulnerabilities, latency, or data feed anomalies. Strategies designed to manipulate the simulated environment rather than reflect genuine market trading are prohibited.
• Instant Lite: Bots and Expert Advisors are not permitted. Instant Lite is a manual trading product.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is allowed between accounts owned by the same person, including across different firms or brokers, subject to each program’s limits. Goat Daily permits copying only between your own Goat Daily accounts. Copy trading between different individuals is strictly prohibited.
• Instant Lite: Copy trading is permitted only within Instant Lite, same account size, across a maximum of 3 accounts.

Trading Hours

• Trading follows CME futures hours: Sunday 5:00 PM CT – Friday 4:00 PM CT, with a daily maintenance break from 4:00–5:00 PM CT. All positions must be closed before each session ends. Hours may vary by product — check CME's website for specifics.

Auto-close:

• Open positions are automatically closed at 15:55 CT.

Inactivity Rule

• Place at least one trade every 7 days. If no trades are placed for 7 consecutive days the account is breached and closed, and the fee is not refunded. There is no time limit on passing the evaluation, but the account does need to stay active.

Prohibited Strategies

Breaching any rule below may result in a warning, profit adjustment, account review, or termination.

• Market manipulation and deception: No fraudulent conduct, price manipulation, spoofing, or anything designed to distort the market or create false trading conditions.

• Microscalping: Trades closed within 2 minutes of opening. Not a breach in itself, but any profit from them is deducted from your account. (Not applicable to Flex Accounts. For Flex Accounts, At each payout request, both of the following must be true for that payout cycle:

  • at least 50% of your closed trades were held longer than 1 minute, and
  • at least 50% of your net profit came from trades held longer than 1 minute.
  • If either is not met, the payout request is declined and all profit from trades held under 1 minute in that cycle is deducted from the account. This is not an account breach, and your account stays open.)

• Exploiting pricing or feed errors: No profiting from mispriced quotes, lagging updates, feed latency, or data discrepancies. Using external or slower price sources (broker accounts, third-party feeds) for an edge is also prohibited.

• High-frequency and algorithmic exploitation: No high-frequency systems, AI tools, tick scalping, or bulk order-entry that exploit execution speed or system inefficiencies rather than trade real conditions.

• Arbitrage: No arbitrage of any kind — latency, hedge, reverse, or rollover/scalping — as it exploits structural inefficiencies rather than genuine speculation.

• Coordinated trading: No coordinating trades to influence outcomes, whether across your own accounts or with other clients. This includes opposing or hedged positions across accounts, group trading, trade signaling, or sharing environments, devices, VPS instances, or IPs to enable linked trading.

• Copying other users' trades: Copying your own trades is allowed subject to program limits. Goat Daily permits copying only between your own Goat Daily accounts. Copying other users' trades or signals — manually, via copy/mirror services, or EAs — is not. Someone else may be copying the same source, creating linked positions across unrelated accounts; where detected, all accounts and users involved may be suspended.

• Gap trading: No trading to capture price gaps from market closures and re-openings.

• Artificial trades to meet requirements: No token, undersized, or manipulated trades used to fake active trading days or bypass risk controls.

• Volume inflation: No abnormally high trade counts or oversized positions on negligible price movement to inflate profit.

• Non-viable strategies: No strategy that could not realistically be executed on a live exchange.

• Responsible risk and position sizing: No staking a disproportionate share of equity on a single position, one-sided all-in bets, or account rolling. Keep sizing consistent with your strategy and balance — erratic, unexplained jumps (e.g., one contract then ten) may be treated as gambling rather than disciplined trading.

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Goat Daily:

• Evaluation: 6% target; best day no more than 40% of total profit, which requires at least three trading days in practice.

• Funded: no winning-day requirement, no consistency percentage and no daily profit cap.

• Manual trading only; no bots, EAs, automated, grid, martingale or high-frequency strategies. Copying is limited to your own Goat Daily accounts.

• Daily loss limits in evaluation and funded

  • 25K: $500
  • 50K: $1,000
  • 100K: $1,500
  • 150K: $2,250

• Hits 1–2 close positions and pause trading until the next session; the third hit within a rolling 30-day period closes the account.

• At payout, at least 50% of net profit since the last payout must come from trades held longer than 60 seconds. Failure declines the request and deducts profit from trades held 60 seconds or less, without breaching the account. There is no separate trade-count test; tick scalping is prohibited.

• No overnight or weekend holding; automatic close at 15:55 CT. Place at least one trade every 7 calendar days in either phase; seven consecutive days without trades breaches and closes the account.

Evaluation and Funded Account Limits (Important)

• You can hold up to 15 Evaluation accounts at any given point in time.

Daily Close and Weekend Rules:

• You may hold trades beyond 4:59PM ET, however, be aware position(s) will be subject to Mark-to-Market adjustments and could cause your account to hit the trailing/maximum loss limit. For more detailed information, please see the following link: CME Group - Mark to Market

• DayTraders.com will not attempt to close your position at 4:59PM ET, it is your responsibility to close any open positions or pending orders.

• Your account will not be failed if you hold a position through market close or over the weekend. It will be failed if it hits the drawdown because of M-to-M adjustment.

Prohibited Practices

Hedging:

At DayTraders.com, we enforce strict risk management guidelines to promote transparent and fair trading practices. As part of these guidelines, hedging across accounts or within the same account is strictly prohibited.

What Does This Mean?

• No Opposite Positions Across Accounts: Traders are not allowed to hold opposite positions (i.e., long and short) in the same or related instruments across different accounts. For example, if you go long on NQ (Nasdaq futures) in one account, you cannot go short on NQ in another account at the same time.
• No Hedging in Related Instruments: Additionally, traders cannot hedge by taking opposing positions in related instruments, such as going long on NQ (NASDAQ) in one account and short on ES (S&P futures) in another account. Hedging between correlated markets or instruments is also not permitted.
• No Simultaneous Long and Short Positions: Traders cannot simultaneously hold long and short positions on the same asset within any account, regardless of the trading strategy.

High-Frequency Trading (HFT):

At DayTraders.com, we maintain strict guidelines to ensure a level playing field for all traders. As part of these guidelines, we do not allow the use of High Frequency Trading (HFT) strategies on our platform.

What Does This Mean?

• Manual Trading Required: High Frequency Trading (HFT) strategies that rely on the rapid execution of multiple trades within very short time intervals are not allowed. This includes trading systems or algorithms designed to execute hundreds or thousands of trades per second or minute.
• Prohibition of HFT Algorithms: Any trading activity that involves the use of HFT software, algorithms, or systems aimed at exploiting price discrepancies in milliseconds or microseconds is strictly prohibited.
• No Trade Overload: Excessive trade volume over short periods that is characteristic of HFT will be flagged and considered a violation of this rule.

Martingale:

At DayTraders.com, we maintain strict guidelines to ensure a level playing field for all traders. As part of these guidelines, we do not allow the use of Martingale strategies on our platform.

What Does This Mean?

• No Martingale Position Sizing: Any trading strategy that involves systematically doubling or significantly increasing position size after a losing trade in an attempt to recover losses is strictly prohibited. This applies regardless of the instrument traded or the account type held.
• Prohibition of Loss Recovery Strategies: Trading approaches that are designed to offset previous losses by exponentially scaling up trade size rather than making independent, merit-based trading decisions are not permitted on our platform.
• Risk Management Compliance: All position sizing must remain consistent with sound risk management practices and must comply with the drawdown and position size limits outlined in your account rules. Using progressively larger positions to chase losses will be flagged as a violation of this rule.
• (DCA allowed)

Minimum Activity Policy:

Your activity requirement depends on whether you are on a Monthly or Lifetime account plan.

MONTHLY ACCOUNTS (Monthly Recurring Fee)

• Accounts are rebilled every 30 days from the original purchase date
• To keep your account active you must complete at least 1 trading day within each 30-day billing cycle
• That trading day must meet the minimum daily profit for your account size
• Consistency is not required
• Best for traders who trade less frequently.

LIFETIME ACCOUNTS (One-Time Fee)

• One-time payment with no monthly rebilling
• To keep your account active and in good standing you must complete 4 trading days within a rolling 30-day period
• Each trading day must meet the minimum daily profit for your account size
• Consistency is not required
• Best for more active traders.

Minimum daily profit requirements per account size: https://daytraders.com/help/articles/14368378-evaluation-account-rules#h_a826b5d75a

Inactivity period

• 7 consecutive calendar days (Sunday–Friday) - A trading day is only counted when at least one round-trip trade is fully completed

News Trading

• There is no restriction for trading during any news hours, allowing traders to take advantage of market volatility and execute trades without restrictions during high-impact news events. However, such a trading style is not generally recommended due to the increased risks associated with price gaps & potential slippage due to unpredictable price movements.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is permitted between your own accounts under one user profile, including challenge-to-challenge and sim funded-to- sim funded (same environment). The Lead account must have the lowest maximum position size among all linked accounts. Third-party copiers are allowed but any issues must be resolved directly with the provider. Copying between accounts owned by different individuals is not permitted. The Lead Account (where you place the original trades) must have the lowest Maximum Position Size among your accounts.​

Expert Advisors

• Prohibited to employ any kind of semi or fully automated trading like EAs, Bots, AI, etc. on all accounts

Risk Limits and Stop Loss Rules

Risk Per Trade Idea

• Maximum risk per trade idea is 1% of initial balance (DX Futures) and 2% of initial balance (Tradovate & NinjaTrader) on sim funded and Direct accounts. This includes;
• Single Trade Idea
• Layering/Splitting Positions - multiple positions on the same assets, same direction, with overlapping time are collectively treated as one single trade idea.
• The 10-Minute Re-entry Rule - Opening a new position in the same direction on the same asset within 10 minutes of closing counts as the continuation of the same trade idea.
• Breach of this rule will result in a hard breach and termination of the account.

Stop Loss Rule

• A stop loss is mandatory on every trade. A floating or realized loss exceeding 2% of the initial balance on a trade or trade idea without a stop loss is considered a breach.

Auto close

• 3:28 PM CT (all positions must be closed before 3:30 PM CT, Monday to Friday)

Trading Hours Explained

• https://holaprime.com/futures/faq/hola-prime-plans/hola-prime-1-step-prime-challenge/

Circuit Breaker Limits

• Traders may NOT place trades within 2% of the price limit. Doing so will result in account closure. Please refer to CME Price Limits to check specific price limits for different asset classes.

Prohibited Strategies

• Gambling / Speculative Trading, Hyperactivity / Excessive Trading, Account or Device Sharing, One-Sided Betting, Arbitrage / Tick Scalping / High-Frequency Trading (HFT), Copy Trading Across Different Users, Hedging between different accounts/ Reverse Trades, Gap Trading, Trading Without Technical or Fundamentals, Trading Behavior Inconsistency, Circuit Breaker Limit Violations, Non-Compliance with CME Group Rules.

• See details: https://holaprime.com/futures/prohibited-trading-practices/

Overnight Holding

• Not Allowed

Weekend Holding

• Not Allowed

Copy-Trading

• Traders are allowed to copy trades manually or automatically in up to 5 of their accounts.
• Copying trades between Challenge & Earning accounts is prohibited.
• Traders are allowed to copy trades from a personal external account to TTP accounts.
• Copying trades from other traders or sources that are not your own is prohibited.

Expert Advisor (EA)

• Allowed to trade using your own Expert Advisor (EA), as long as it does not perform any prohibited trading activities outlined in the terms and conditions.

News Trading

• Futures Prime: News trading is allowed.

Martingale

• Martingale or similar high-risk trading strategies are not allowed.

Grid Trading

• Grid trading is not allowed.

Scalping

• Scalping is allowed in all futures accounts.

Micro-Scalping

• Micro‑scalping is defined as opening and closing trades within approximately 10–15 seconds with the primary intention of capturing very small, ultra‑short‑term price moves. Micro‑scalping is strictly prohibited under The Trading Pit's trading rules across all account types and trading instruments.

Gap Trading

• Gap trading is not allowed.

Overnight Holding

• Overnight holding rule: It is not allowed to keep positions open overnight in Futures Prime accounts

Auto-close

• Open positions force-closed at 14:55 CT.

High-Frequency Trading (HFT)

• High-Frequency Trading (HFT) is not permitted on any of our accounts.

Inactivity

• If no trade is placed for 21 consecutive days, the account will be considered inactive and will be suspended.

Gambling and Inconsistent Trading

• Traders must maintain consistent lot sizes in their trades, demonstrating disciplined and strategic trading practices.