Perpetual Futures Prop Firm Rules Compared

Platform & Instrument Type

• Crypto Fund Trader offers three instrument types, depending on the platform chosen at checkout. Perps are available only on the Bybit platform. Accounts on the Match-Trader or MT5 platforms trade CFDs and Crypto CFDs instead.

Max allocation

• Exceeding the maximum capital allocation of $300,000 for 1 and 2 step combined is prohibited.

• Maximum of 3 Instant Program accounts allowed, capped at $30,000 total.

Reverse trading rule

• It is not allowed to create trades in opposite directions with a simultaneous duration equal or higher than 60 seconds. If you enter the market with a SELL, in order to trade in the opposite direction (BUY) you must close all your open trades in SELL.

Prohibited

• Gambling-style trading, all-in trading, abusive hedging, or any trading behavior that shows a lack of proper risk management.

Gambling rule

• The daily and/or per-trade profit limit is $10,000.

Bybit Platform Rules

• Adding extra funds to the assigned Bybit sub-account is not allowed. Any unauthorized deposit, transfer, or addition of funds to the sub-account may result in account suspension.
• Disconnecting, modifying, altering, or interfering with the assigned API connection is strictly prohibited. Any attempt to disconnect or modify the API connection may result in immediate account suspension.
• Spot trading on the Bybit sub-account is strictly prohibited. Any spot trading activity may result in account suspension.
• Only USDT trading pairs are allowed on Bybit accounts. Trades placed on USDC pairs will not be counted toward the account’s simulated profit or evaluation results.

Prohibited Practices

All-or-Nothing Trading:

• Risking the entire daily drawdown on a single trade idea is prohibited.

Irresponsible Trading:

• Executing large-volume trades without a coherent strategy or disregarding reasonable risk-management practices is prohibited.

High-Frequency Trading:

• No more than 50% of trades may be held for less than one minute.

One Strategy Per User:

• Traders must use their own trading strategies. Identical trades across multiple users may result in account termination

Find out more: Other prohibited practices

Risk Limit

Maximum Risk Per Trade Idea:

• No fixed maximum risk per trade idea applies by default. However, risking the entire daily drawdown on a single trade idea is prohibited.
• E8 may impose a maximum risk limit of 1% per trade idea or time horizon if prohibited or excessively risky trading practices are identified.

Maximum Position Size:

• Maximum position size is determined by the instrument-specific limits available on E8 Terminal, subject to account equity, leverage and available margin.

Daily Profit Cap (E8 Pro):

• A maximum of 2% of the initial account balance counts toward daily profits during both Challenge and Performance stages. Profits exceeding this cap are excluded from credited performance.

Trading Conditions

News Trading:

• E8 One: News trading is permitted during the Challenge stage. During the Performance stage, opening or closing trades, executing pending orders, or triggering Stop Loss and Take Profit orders is prohibited from 5 minutes before until 5 minutes after a restricted high-impact news event affecting the instrument.
• E8 Pro: News trading is permitted during Challenge and Performance stages.
• Violations (E8 One): Profits generated from prohibited news trading may be deducted from the account.

Copy Trading:

• Copy trading is permitted between personally owned Challenge, Performance and personal trading accounts.

Expert Advisors (EAs):

• EAs are permitted, including third-party EAs, provided the strategy complies with E8's trading policies.
• Identical EA strategies used by multiple traders may result in account termination. Only one strategy is permitted per user.

Weekend and Overnight Holding:

• Overnight and weekend holding is permitted during Challenge and Performance stages for E8 One Perpetual and E8 Pro Perpetual.

Inactivity Rules:

• At least one trade must be opened and closed within every 60-day period to maintain account activity.

Maximum position size

• https://www.breakoutprop.com/symbols/

Prohibited Practices

• Trading in a way that creates regulatory issues for Breakout, an exchange, or a market maker

• Using a third-party or off-the-shelf approach marketed specifically to pass evaluations

• Using one approach to pass the evaluation, then switching approaches once funded

• Other prohibited practices: https://intercom.help/breakoutprop/en/articles/11644090-what-trading-practices-are-prohibited-during-the-breakout-evaluation

Leverage by Market

• Leverage shown is the highest available in each asset class. Individual markets within a class may have lower limits. The order ticket shows the exact leverage for the selected market

Liquidation Penalty

• 0.1% added on top of the taker fee when a position is liquidated

Minimum Trading Days

• None on evaluation and funded and on all plans

News Trading

Evaluation

• Allowed with no restrictions

Funded

• Trading is restricted around high-impact (red-folder) news on the affected market and for individual stocks and equity perpetuals, company earnings announcements are restricted:
  • More than 10 min before: normal trading. Positions already open can be held through the release.
  • 10 to 2 min before: no new positions, adding, reversing and nothing else that increases exposure in the affected market
  • 2 min before to 2 min after: no manual trades of any kind.
  • Violation is a soft breach. Any profit made within these restricted windows will be deducted

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• Automated trading is allowed, but only through the official My Funded Perps API; accessing the website’s internal APIs through browser tools or network requests is not permitted. Bots, EAs, scripts and AI agents must follow all trading rules, and can’t be used for HFT, latency arbitrage, quote stuffing, platform exploits, coordinating trades across accounts, or getting around risk limits. The firm may also restrict automated strategies that put heavy load on its systems or behave very differently from normal trading.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is allowed only between your own accounts, using the platform’s built-in Copy Trading feature. You pick one account as the lead and others as followers, with trade size set from 0.1x to 2x, but a funded account can’t follow an evaluation account. Each follower is checked against its own rules and margin separately, so results can differ between accounts, and you can’t trade a follower manually while copying is active.

• Copying from external sources, signal services or other traders’ accounts is prohibited, as are account sharing and hedging across accounts.

Overnight Holding, Weekend Holding and Weekend Trading

• Overnight Holding is allowed on all markets
• On 24/7 markets, you can trade throughout the weekend and hold positions over the weekend.
• On 23/5 markets, weekend trading and holding are not allowed. All open positions are automatically closed 15 minutes before the market closes on Friday.

Inactivity Period

• Evaluation: 30 consecutive calendar days – Hard breach
• Funded: 7 consecutive calendar days – Hard breach

Market Exposure Caps

Select, Prime and Signature

• Total open position size per market is capped across all your accounts of the same product and size, counting both longs and shorts. Orders that would exceed the cap are rejected. Caps vary by market, product and account size.
• See market exposure caps – https://myfundedperpetuals.com/exposure-caps

Elite

• Elite account exposure caps apply to each account separately rather than across a group. Indices, gold and oil have their own Elite caps; all other markets use the standard exposure caps, but still apply to each Elite account separately.
• See Elite exposure cap – https://myfundedperpetuals.com/faq#faq-p574amzzngf88zxm9dp829fk498fvnnk

Order & Position Limits

• Each account can hold up to 15 open positions and 20 resting orders at once, with each order worth at least $10. Orders must be at least half a second apart, capped at 30 per minute and 250 per hour. Any order breaching a limit is rejected, with a message stating which limit applied.

IP / VPN / VPS Policy

• https://myfundedperpetuals.com/faq#faq-p572swykrka98j7sxc5sqm480n8e4zg0
• https://myfundedperpetuals.com/faq#faq-p576cndftapmxrzgwzrrjw6zgd8e4vnq

Prohibited Trading Strategies

• Cross Hedging, High-Frequency Trading (HFT), Latency Arbitrage, Price-Feed or Data-Feed Exploitation, Execution Exploitation, Quote Stuffing / Excessive Order Activity, Spoofing and Layering, Wash Trading / Self-Trading, Group Hedging / Coordinated Trading, Account Cycling / Sacrificial Accounts, Evaluation Gambling and Repeated Maximum-Risk Attempts, Risk-Free or Near Risk-Free Exploitation, Platform, Bug, or Rule Exploitation

• Any activity meant to manipulate the evaluation, get around risk controls, exploit the platform, or hide who is actually trading is prohibited. Depending on severity, violations can lead to trades being removed, profits adjusted, payouts denied, or the account breached or terminated. Serious or repeated cases can lead to a permanent ban from My Funded Perps.

Leverage by Market

• Leverage shown is the highest available in each asset class. Individual markets within a class may have lower limits.

Funding Rates

• Hyperliquid perpetual contracts carry periodic funding rates. These are standard on all perpetual futures and are deducted or credited to your account automatically. Funding rate impact is included in your equity calculation.

Minimum Trading Days

• None on evaluation and funded on all plans

News Trading

• Allowed on evaluation and funded on all programs with no restrictions

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• Automated trading is allowed with no restrictions. Propr offers a full trading API and SDKs for building bots and AI agents (Python and JS).

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is permitted, including between your own Propr accounts.

Overnight Holding, Weekend Holding and Weekend Trading

• Overnight and weekend holding is allowed on all markets.
• Crypto perps trade 24/7. Equities and commodities perps follow their market hours, but some may still be tradable outside those hours depending on the asset.

Inactivity Period

• None

Maximum Position Size

Maximum position size depends on the asset:

• $1M for BTC, ETH, equities, commodities and FX; $150K for large-cap crypto (open interest above $100M); and for all other assets, 5% of the asset’s open interest, between $50K and $100K. Orders above the limit are rejected. The current limit for each market is shown at https://www.propr.xyz/universe

IP / VPN / VPS Policy

• Using a VPN is permitted on Propr. However, your KYC verification must match your actual country of residence. VPN usage does not exempt you from geographic restrictions.

Prohibited Trading Strategies

• Exploiting platform bugs or glitches, Account sharing or selling, Identity fraud, Opposite hedging across accounts, Hedging across external CEX or DEX accounts, Third-party coordination, Account cycling / high-frequency eval purchases, Exploiting the payout/drawdown interaction, Latency arbitrage and tick sniping, Simulated or wash trading, Sharing account access or multi-account usage from same location, Non-replicable or high-risk strategies
• Violations may lead to Propr requesting additional information, suspending trading and/or payouts pending investigation, permanently terminating the account with no payout, and banning the individual from future evaluations. Decisions are final and not subject to appeal.

Leverage by Market

• Leverage shown is the highest available in each asset class. Individual markets within a class may have lower limits.

Temporary Leverage Limits (Weekends)

• From Friday 4:00 PM ET until the market reopens, maximum leverage drops to 5x on ES and NQ and to 3x on gold. Positions above these limits may be reduced or closed automatically

See full details: https://docs.vestmarkets.com/trading/temporary-leverage-limits-tll

Funding Rates

• Positions pay or receive funding, which settles hourly. The current rate for each market is shown at the top of its trading page.

Restricted Markets

• XRP and HYPE can only be traded on the Primary account, not on Vest Capital accounts. All other supported markets are available.

Minimum Trading Days

• None on evaluation and funded on all plans

News Trading

• Allowed on evaluation and funded on all programs with no restrictions

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• Third-party bots and automation tools are currently allowed, but Vest doesn’t endorse or support them, and they can be disconnected at any time without notice. API trading isn’t available.

Copy Trading

• Allowed, including through third-party tools, which Vest doesn’t endorse.

Overnight Holding, Weekend Holding and Weekend Trading

• Overnight and weekend holding is allowed on all markets.
• Crypto trades 24/7. Non-crypto positions follow their standard weekend market schedule.

Inactivity Period

• None

IP / VPN / VPS Policy

• VPNs aren’t allowed, for compliance reasons.

Prohibited Trading Strategies

• Manipulating price, liquidity or volume, Trades meant to trigger hedges or liquidations that distort markets, Front-running or trading against Vest’s hedging, Wash trading, self-trading, spoofing, layering, matched or prearranged trades, Exploiting technical errors, latency, risk limits or payout calculations.  Using multiple identities or misusing multiple accounts