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.

Server Request Limitation

• There is a limit of 100 orders you can enter at a time, 2000 modifications of TP/SL and orders per day.
• The maximum position limit per day is also 2000.

Risk Management

• Risking your entire daily drawdown on a single trade is not permitted.
• Engaging in prohibited trading practices will result in termination from our program and a refund of the fee paid from the account where this rule was broken.

Hedging

• Hedging across multiple accounts, even those belonging to the same trader, is strictly prohibited.

Trade Duration

• You cannot hold more than 50% of your trades for under one minute.

Risk Exposure Limitation

• E8 reserves the right to de-risk trading strategies by limiting risk exposure to no more than 1% per trade idea or time horizon if prohibited practices are detected.

Other prohibited practices

• https://help.e8markets.com/en/articles/6929927-trading-policies-and-prohibited-trading-strategies

E8 Trader Stage Account Exceeds Profit Threshold

• If your account's profits surpass the Dynamic Drawdown value, you can request a payout of all profits earned. However, you should leave a drawdown buffer in the account to continue trading. If you withdraw all your profits, it will result in the closure of the account.

E8 Pro

• 2% Daily Profit cap: In each day, the maximum profit you can make is 2%. If you make more, only 2% will be counted towards your profit target.
• Static Drawdown: The drawdown does not trail upward and remains fixed at your starting balance until your first payout is requested. Once the first payout is processed, the drawdown is locked at the initial balance level. For every payout request, 50% of the profits are paid out to you, while the remaining 50% stays in the account as a buffer to help maintain the drawdown threshold.

EAs (Expert Advisors)

• Allowed: You can also use any EA (Expert Advisor) as long as we don't see multiple users executing the same trades/strategy. We limit one strategy per user, so if we see multiple users utilize the same EA, it may lead to the termination of your account. So even though the use of third-party EA is allowed, we recommend that each user use their own programmed EA. 

News Trading

• News Trading: Allowed on E8 One evaluation stage and E8 Pro.
• Not allowed in E8 One Funded stage 5 minutes before or after high-impact news.

Inactivity

• After 60 days of inactivity, the account is disabled and there is no entitlement to a refund.

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

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

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.