Prop Firm Rules

Prohibited Practices

Quick Strike Method:

• Quick Strike trades are positions closed within 30 seconds. The Quick Strike percentage is the share of total profit from these trades, calculated per trading cycle. A 30% or higher percentage is a violation.

• A 20% warning applies to both Challenge and FundedNext Accounts. At 30%+, Challenge Accounts are placed on hold until the threshold is cleared, while FundedNext Accounts are terminated at the end of the cycle, with all Quick Strike profits forfeited.

Strategy Consistency:

• Utilizing specific asset classes, symbol categories, specific margin or risk usages to pass the evaluation phase and then switching to entirely different asset classes or symbol categories and significantly increasing the margin utilization or risk usages in the FundedNext Account.

Grid Trading:

• Grid trading involves placing multiple buy and sell orders at different price levels above and below the current market price to profit from price fluctuations.

One-Sided Betting:

• One-Sided Betting refers to concentrated directional exposure, such as multiple trades in the same direction or reactive positions, where the outcome depends heavily on a single trade or trade idea. FundedNext restricts this behavior, as it considers such trading gambling rather than consistent, skill-based trading.

Find out more: https://help.fundednext.com/en/articles/8020351-what-are-the-restricted-prohibited-trading-strategies

Risk Limit:

• FundedNext Accounts have a maximum 3% cumulative risk at any given time, based on potential loss from stop-loss placement and realized/unrealized losses relative to the initial account balance. The limit applies to all trading styles, asset classes, and trades linked to the same trading idea.

Violations:

• 1st violation: Formal warning and 100% deduction of profit generated by the violating trades.
• 2nd violation: Formal warning, 100% profit deduction, and permanent reclassification to a 1% cumulative risk limit.
• Further violations: 100% deduction of profit from the violating trades; losses are recorded without deduction.

Trading Conditions

Copy Trading:

• Copy trading is allowed between Challenge Accounts, with combined capital capped at $300,000 and one account set as the master. Also allowed between Stellar Instant accounts. Not allowed between a FundedNext Account and any other FundedNext Account or Challenge Account, and not allowed between Stellar Instant and Stellar 1-Step, Stellar 2-Step, or Stellar Lite, on either the Challenge or the FundedNext Account, even if they are owned by one person.

EA Usage:

• EAs are available only as an add-on. EAs are only permitted for account sizes under $50,000 and work only on MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5. EAs must be customized to suit your trading style; identical trades across accounts are not allowed. There is a maximum allocation limit of $300,000 for each EA or trading bot's strategy.

News Trading:

• News trading is allowed during the Challenge phase. During the funded phase, trades opened or closed within 5 minutes before or after a listed high-impact news event count for only 40% of the profit. Losses in that window still count in full. The rule covers market orders and pending orders, including take-profit and stop-loss.

Inactivity Rules:

• Challenge Accounts on FundedNext expire after 60 days of inactivity. In order to keep the account active, traders must place a trade on the account within a consecutive 60 calendar days timeframe.

VPN Usage:

• VPNs are allowed on Challenge and FundedNext Accounts. Traders should use a paid VPN and must not connect through IP addresses from restricted countries.
• VPS use is not permitted on accounts of $50,000 or more. For accounts below $50,000, VPS use is allowed on both Challenge and FundedNext Accounts, subject to an additional usage fee.

News Trading

• For Hyper-Growth, Pro Growth and Bootcamp: News trading is allowed except for bracket strategies around news.
• For High Stakes and Summer Plan: Executing orders 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after high-impact news is prohibited.

Copy Trading

• Allowed for High Stakes, Summer, Pro-Growth and Hyper-Growth with limitation
• Limitation: Once a trader has more than $500K under management, taking the same trades across accounts will no longer be possible
• External account copy trading: Allowed under the condition that the account belongs to the same traders; third-party copy trading is not allowed
• Bootcamp accounts: Copy trading is not allowed between two Bootcamp accounts

Expert Advisors

• Expert Advisors are allowed, as long as it's aligned with terms and conditions
• Required conditions:
  • The EA must set a Stop Loss (SL) order on every position
• Prohibited EA functions:
  • Copy trades from other persons' signals
  • Perform tick scalping
  • Perform latency arbitrage trading
  • Perform reverse arbitrage trading
  • Perform hedge arbitrage trading
  • Use emulators
• Enforcement: Any accounts found using EAs that violate these rules will be canceled, banned, and not refunded
• Applies to: All programs including Bootcamp and Instant Funding (Hyper Growth)

High Stakes Program:

• Minimum of 3 profitable days; a profitable day is a day on which the closed positions made a positive profit of at least 0.5% of the initial balance.

High Stakes New and Classic Cross-program rules:

• You cannot hold the same size account across both programs ONLY for the $50K and $100K tiers, you may only hold one of these across Classic and New combined
• $2.5K, $5K, $10K, and $25K accounts can be duplicated across programs

Prohibited Practices

• One-sided bets: A trading strategy where the user takes consistent positions in one single direction without considering market conditions or conducting proper analysis
• Arbitrage: Use exploitation of price discrepancies or glitches within different markets of similar or identical assets
• Bracket strategy: Trading bracketing strategy by opening pending orders around high-impact news. It consists of opening buy and sell stops close to the price before the news
• System exploitation: Intentionally or unintentionally employ trading strategies that take advantage of errors within the system, such as inaccuracies in price display or delays in updating
• Overleveraging: Overleveraging or overexposure to a single instrument or correlated instruments in a manner inconsistent with market-standard risk management practices that a reasonable person would apply when trading with their own capital
• Position sizing inconsistency: Opening position sizes or a number of positions that are substantially larger or smaller than your typical trading activity, whether compared across your own accounts or between your evaluation and funded account stages; or repeatedly concentrating risk in a single instrument or group of correlated instruments in a way that builds cumulative overexposure beyond what market-standard risk management would permit
• Other prohibited practices: https://the5ers.com/faqs/prohibited-trading-practices/

Inactivity Rule

• Evaluation accounts will be deactivated after 30 days of inactivity, while funded accounts will be deactivated after 60 days of inactivity.

Max Position Size

• 50 lots per order for FX and indices
• 20 lots per order for XAUUSD

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

• Allowed on E8 One evaluation stage, 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.

Inactivity Rule:

• All accounts will be deactivated after 30 days of inactivity. To avoid deactivation, log in and maintain an active connection. Once deactivated, accounts cannot be restored.

All or Nothing:

• All or nothing practices are prohibited.

Average Trade Duration:

• Traders must ensure that the average duration of all their trades exceeds 2minutes. At least 50% of your gross generated profits (profits above the initial account balance) for qualified accounts, or total targeted profits for evaluations, must come from trades that exceed 2 minutes. If the total profit from all trades lasting less than 2 minutes, including those taken while the account was below its initial balance, exceeds 50% of that amount, the rule will be breached.
• If you pass the evaluation but breach this rule, you will be required to restart the evaluation from Phase 1. If this breach occurs during the qualified stage, all profits made will be removed, and the account will be reset to its initial balance.

Prohibited trading strategies include:

• Taking advantage of unrealistic prices or trade opportunities, such as exploiting mispricing or front-running price feeds

• Latency trading

• Arbitrage trading

• High-frequency trading

• Reverse trading/group hedging

• Spamming the order book

• Group trading/signal following

• Additionally, account management services are not allowed: all accounts and trades must be handled by the trader whose name is on the account.

VPN/VPS/IP rules:

• Read here https://help.alphacapitalgroup.uk/en/articles/8420522-what-is-the-ip-rule-are-vpns-and-vpss-allowed

News Trading on Qualified Analyst Accounts:

• Allowed only for Swing accounts, However, if a trade is initiated within 2 minutes before or up to 2 minutes after a news release (a 4-minute window), its duration must exceed 2 minutes for the trade to be valid.
• For Alpha Direct, Alpha One, and Alpha Pro: Trading around high-impact news is restricted to 5 minutes before or after the news release. News trading is allowed in all evaluation program without any restriction.

Copy Trading:

• Allowed, personal accounts only. Proof of ownership is required if Alpha capital account is to be treated as slave. MT5 only
• Alpha Capital's partnership with Prop Firm One enables you to extend your copy trading capabilities even further. PF1 allows traders to seamlessly copy trades across different proprietary firm accounts within a single platform, offering increased flexibility and a broader range of opportunities. This means that, in addition to Alpha Capital's internal copy trading feature, PF1 empowers users to manage trades across multiple firms, enhancing scalability and trading efficiency without breaching Alpha Capital's core rules. For more details on this enhanced functionality, visit PropFirmOne.com.

Expert Advisors:

• EAs designed solely for trade management are approved for use. Automated EAs that execute trades independently, without human oversight, are strictly prohibited and will not be approved under any circumstances. Expert Advisors (EAs) are allowed for trading on the MT5 Platform, there is currently no EA functionality for cTrader, DX Trade and TradeLocker accounts. EAs need to be enabled at checkout (EAs not available for Direct accounts).
• Drawdown Adjustment Rule for Alpha One Accounts: If your X% trailing Max Drawdown resets to the initial balance after reaching a X% profit, maintain a profit buffer to keep trading. Withdrawing all profits will result in account closure.

Account rolling:

• (full risk on assessment or qualified accounts to either pass or fail &/or a large quantity of accounts passing & failing within a short timeframe is prohibited. Previous failed accounts are taken into consideration)

Qualified Analyst Allocation Rules:

• $300,000 is the MAXIMUM allocation per trading strategy on a Qualified Analyst Account. "strategy" is defined as the assets themselves. ​

Max Risk per Asset

• Accounts below $50,000 ($5k, $10k, and $25k): 3%
• Accounts of $50,000 and above ($50k, $100k, and $200k): 2%

Alpha Direct (all account sizes):

• 1%

Maximum lot allowed (Funded)

Alpha Swing:

• $5k = Max 1.25 lots

• $10k = Max 2.5 lots

• $25k = Max 5 lots

• $50k = Max 10 lots

• $100k = Max 20 lots

• $200k = Max 40 lots

• $300k = Max 60 lots

Alpha Direct, Alpha One, and Alpha Pro:

• $2.5k = Max 1.25 lots
• $5k = Max 2.5 lots
• $10k = Max 5 lots
• $25k = Max 10 lots
• $50k = Max 20 lots
• $100k = Max 40 lots
• $200k = Max 80 lots
• $300k = Max 120 lots

Inactivity rule:

• All accounts, will be deactivated after 30 days of inactivity. Once deactivated, accounts cannot be restored.

Maximum Loss Per Trade Policy:

• (Instant Funding Pro and AquaMan) If your floating PnL (profit and loss) reaches or exceeds a loss of -2% (or -1% for the $300,000 and $400,000 accounts) of the account balance, the account will be permanently closed.

• For Instant Funding Standard model:

  • The Maximum Loss Per Trade Policy applies to funded accounts only and is designed to encourage disciplined risk management.
  • If your combined floating PnL reaches -1% of your account balance, the following progression will apply.

• First Violation:

  • Your reward split will be reduced to 50%. Your account will remain active and you may continue trading.

• Second Violation:

  • Your reward split will be reduced to 25%. Your account will remain active and you may continue trading.

• Third Violation:

  • Your funded account will be permanently breached.

• For Instant Flex:

  • Instant Flex has a maximum floating loss limit of 1% of the initial account balance.
  • Your combined floating PnL across all open positions must not reach a loss of 1% or more of the initial account balance.
  • This applies to the combined floating loss across the account, not individually to each open trade.

• Consequences for exceeding the limit:

  • Immediate and permanent closure of the account.
  • No further trading activity will be permitted on the breached account.

1% Maximum Floating Loss Strike System On Two Step Elite:

• If a trader's floating PnL reaches -1% of their account balance:

  • First Strike: Reward split reduced to 50%.
  • Second Strike: Reward split reduced to 25%.
  • Third Strike: Funded account permanently breached.

News Trading:

• News trading is allowed; profits on trades opened or closed 5 minutes before/after high-impact news is capped at 0.5% of the starting balance per cycle., News trading is allowed in all evaluation programs without any restriction.

Wave Stop

• Wave Stop applies to Funded Accounts only. If your open trades reach a 2% loss of your account balance, Wave Stop will, in most cases, automatically close all open trades across all symbols. This is a soft breach, meaning you can continue trading immediately without further restrictions. This rule applies to the funded stage of the following AquaFunded account models:

  • Two Step Pro
  • Two Step Standard
  • Two Step Elite
  • One Step Standard

• WaveStop rule for 1 Step Flex and 2 Step Elite Funded accounts:

  • If your floating PnL reaches -1% of your account balance, the following progression applies:
    • First Strike
      Your reward split will be reduced to 50%.
    • Second Strike
      Your reward split will be reduced to 25%.
    • Third Strike
      Your funded account will be permanently breached.

• WaveStop rule does not apply during the evaluation phase.

All or Nothing:

• All or nothing practices are prohibited.

Margin Limit:

• Using more than 80% of available margin on a single trade is prohibited.
• Excessive risk taking in terms of the % of an account risked in a single simulated-trade.
• Excessive cumulative risk taking in terms of the % of an account risked in a series of overlapping simulated-trades.

Choice of strategy:

• Traders are not allowed to use one strategy to pass an assessment and then switch to a different strategy in a funded account.

Copy Trading:

• Allowed between personal accounts only. The following copy trading is allowed: Copy trading between AquaFunded accounts; Copy trading from Funded-, to Evaluation accounts and vice versa; Copy trading between AquaFunded account and external accounts.
• AquaFunded’s partnership with Prop Firm One enables you to extend your copy trading capabilities even further. PF1 allows traders to seamlessly copy trades across different proprietary firm accounts within a single platform, offering increased flexibility and a broader range of opportunities. This means that, in addition to AquaFunded’s internal copy trading feature, PF1 empowers users to manage trades across multiple firms, enhancing scalability and trading efficiency without breaching AquaFunded’s core rules. For more details on this enhanced functionality, visit PropFirmOne.com.

Expert Advisors:

• EAs are allowed, provided they are used as part of your own personal trading strategy.

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.

GENERAL RULES

Minimum Trading Days

• Evaluation: 5 days in each phase | To count as a trading day, the trade must remain open for at least 1 minute | No minimum trading days with add-on
• Funded: None

News Trading

• Evaluation Accounts: No Restriction
• Funded Accounts: No trades may be executed on affected instruments within 5 minutes before or after major news events (including pending orders, SL, and TP). Profits made during this 10 min window will be deducted (This is a soft breach), but losses are not compensated. Positions opened more than 5 minutes before the event may be held and modified, though an SL or TP filled within the window still counts as a soft breach. Trades open for at least 48 hours are exempt from profit deduction. Non-targeted instruments can be traded normally.

See details: https://help.brightfunded.com/en/articles/9241694-can-i-trade-news

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is allowed only between accounts you personally own (BrightFunded, other prop firms, retail broker). copying trades between different owners’ accounts is strictly prohibited.

• BrightFunded’s partnership with Prop Firm One enables you to extend your copy trading capabilities even further. PF1 allows traders to seamlessly copy trades across different proprietary firm accounts within a single platform, offering increased flexibility and a broader range of opportunities. This means that, in addition to BrightFunded’s internal copy trading feature, PF1 empowers users to manage trades across multiple firms, enhancing scalability and trading efficiency without breaching BrightFunded’s core rules. For more details on this enhanced functionality, visit PropFirmOne.com.

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• Allowed but must align with trading conditions and rules
• While EAs are allowed, not all third-party EAs are compatible with BrightFunded's platform environment.
  BrightFunded does not guarantee compatibility or performance of any external EA, and are not responsible for issues caused by non-compatible EAs

30 Days Inactivity Rule

• Must place at least one trade every 30 days or account will be deactivated, and if not reactivated via support within 6 months, it will be permanently closed.
• To count, the trade must remain open for at least 1 minute.

Overnight | Weekend Holding/Trading Crypto

• Allowed

Prohibited trading strategies and practices

• Hedging (between two or more different accounts, between Different Prop Firms, Across Different Trading Platforms, Hedging-Copy Trading), Exploiting Service Errors or Platform Delays, Using External or Delayed Data Feeds, Coordinated or Multi-Account Manipulation, Violating Platform or Provider Terms, Use of Automated Software, AI, or High-Speed Trading Tools, Risk-Abusive Trading; Overleveraging, Overexposure, One-Sided Bets, and Account Rolling, Trading During High-Impact News or Events, Abusive Strategy Types; Grid Trading, Arbitrage, Tick Scalping, High-Frequency Trading (HFT).
• See details: https://help.brightfunded.com/en/articles/9241704-which-strategies-are-prohibited-at-brightfunded

IPs/VPN/VPS Rule

• VPNs and different IPs are allowed for travel, but only the account owner may trade (no account sharing).

Leverage Update

• Effective: 16 March 2026 at 23:59 Server Time (UTC+3)
• Temporary Dynamic Leverage: Applied to metals, indices and energies all assessment-based Master Accounts.
  • 0.00 - 0.05 lots — 1:50
  • 0.05 - 0.10 lots — 1:30
  • 0.10 - 0.15 lots — 1:25
  • 0.15 - 0.25 lots — 1:20
  • 0.25 - 0.50 lots — 1:10
  • 0.50 and above lots — 1:5

Copy Trading

• You can copy trades between your own FundingPips accounts (i.e., accounts registered under the same individual)
• For external copy trading, a FundingPips account may only act as a master to an external slave account
• Prohibited: Copying between accounts owned by different users, coordinated trading across accounts not owned by the same individual, inbound copying into a FundingPips account from external sources or signal providers, and any third-party account management (which results in immediate termination)
• FundingPips partnership with Prop Firm One: Enables you to extend your copy trading capabilities by seamlessly copying trades across different proprietary firm accounts within a single platform, offering increased flexibility and a broader range of opportunities without breaching FundingPips' core rules
  • For more details, visit PropFirmOne.com

Expert Advisor (EA)

• Full automation is allowed only with a personal EA developed by the trader, subject to proof of ownership (e.g. source code, version history, or development evidence)
• A compiled file alone is not accepted as proof
• Third-party EAs are permitted only as trade or risk managers — any other use results in denial of the evaluation/reward and account closure

Inactivity Rule

• You must open and close at least one trade within 30 consecutive days

Max Lot Limit Per Click

• Crypto trades: Capped at a maximum of 1 lot per click (subject to available margin)
• All other instruments: Platform-wide limit of 20 lots per click

Forbidden Strategies

• Gap trading, high frequency trading, server spamming, latency arbitrage, hedging, long-short arbitrage, reverse arbitrage, exploiting server execution, toxic trading flow, tick scalping, churning & burning and opposite account trading are prohibited
• Violation will result in account termination.
• Forbidden strategies explained: https://help.fundingpips.com/en/articles/8536000-what-are-the-forbidden-strategies

IP / VPN / VPS / ISP & Multiple Devices Policy

• VPN/VPS connections are prohibited on any trading account
• Your IP region for purchasing, logging in, and trading must remain consistent to avoid account flags
• See Details: https://help.fundingpips.com/en/articles/8535886-what-is-the-ip-rule

FundingPips Zero

Minimum Profitable Days

• 7 profitable days of at least 0.25% profit each day by the end of each 30-day period which resets at the end of each cycle or after a payout is processed

Max Open Risk Limit

• Combined floating loss across all open losing positions must not reach -1% of the starting account size; profitable trades don’t offset losses. Violation is a hard breach.

News Trading

• Trading (Holding / Opening trades) 10 minutes before and 10 minutes after high-impact news event and speeches on the affected currency is Strictly prohibited
• Violation is a Hard breach

Overnight Holding

• Allowed

Weekend Holding | Crypto Trading on Weekends

• Not Allowed
• All positions must be fully closed before market close on Friday. Leaving any position open into the weekend is an immediate account termination, regardless of instrument.

1-Step Flex, 2-Step Standard, 2-Step Pro & 2-Step Flex

Minimum Trading Days

• 1-Step Flex

  • Evaluation: None | Funded: None with Bi-weekly (80% Split) payouts and 7 Profitable days of 0.5% with On-demand (100% Split) Payouts

• 2-Step Standard

  • Evaluation: 3 trading days / None with 3% daily DD add-on | Funded: None with Weekly and Bi-weekly Payouts | 7 Profitable days of 0.5% with On-demand payouts

• 2-Step Pro

  • Evaluation: None | Funded: None with Bi-weekly (80% Split) payout and 7 Profitable days of 0.5% with On-demand (100% Split) Payouts

• 2-Step Flex

  • Evaluation & Funded: 1 day with 80% split | 3 Profitable days of 0.5% with 95% split | 7 Profitable days of 0.5% on Funded only with On-demand (100% profit split) payouts

News trading

Evaluation

• Allowed

Funded

• Executing orders 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after high impact news events, and high impact Speeches on affected instruments is prohibited Any profits made within this window will be voided.
• Trades opened more than 5 Hours Before the News: Profits will count if closed within the restricted windows.

Overnight & Weekend Holding
Evaluation:

• Allowed

Funded:

• Not allowed on Master Accounts unless the Swing add-on is purchased at checkout. All Open positions are closed automatically within a 15-minute window each day (20:45–21:00 UTC summertime and 21:45–22:00 UTC wintertime), with any position still open at the end of the window closed. A system close is not a breach, but the day does not count as a valid trading day. Profits from these trades still add to the balance, and the biggest winning and losing days are included in the consistency score calculation.

Crypto Trading on Weekends

• Not Allowed

Plartform Eligibility

• TradeLocker and Match Trader Platform are only available for US and UK traders
• The 2-Step Fly Challenge is available on MT5 and TradeLocker.

Minimum Trading Days

• 1-Step Prime & 2-Step Pro - Evaluation: 2 days | Funded: None with On-demand Payouts / 3 profitable days of 0.5% profit each day with Bi-weekly payouts / 7 profitable days of 0.5% profit each day with Monthly Payouts

• 2-Step Prime - Evaluation: 3 days | Funded: None with On-demand Payouts / 3 profitable days of 0.5% profit each day with Bi-weekly payouts / 7 profitable days of 0.5% profit each day with Monthly Payouts

• Direct(Instant Funding) - None

• 2-Step Fly- Evaluation: 3 days | Funded: None

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News Trading

Evaluation:

• 1-Step Prime, 2-Step Prime & 2-Step Pro: Allowed with no restrictions
• 2-Step Fly: Trades can be held through news but no orders may be executed (including pending orders, SL & TP) on affected instruments within 5 minutes before or after a high-impact news release.Violation is a direct hard breach

Funded

• 1-Step Prime, 2-Step Prime & 2-Step Fly: Allowed with no restrictions
• 2-Step Pro & Direct(Instant Funding): Trades can be held through news but no orders may be executed (including pending orders, SL & TP) on affected instruments within 5 minutes before or after a high-impact news release.

For Pro - Profits from trades executed during this window will be reversed, and reckless exploitation of news volatility may result in account termination.

For Direct - Violation is a direct hard breach

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Expert Advisor

• EAs are strictly prohibited

EA Trading Add-on

• EAs, bots, and automated systems are permitted only on MT5 and only if the EA usage add-on has been purchased.
• They are not allowed on Direct Model accounts.
• EAs must comply with Hola Prime's rules, be customized to remain distinct from other traders, and not be used for copy trading based on another person’s signals or trading activity, tick scalping, latency arbitrage, reverse arbitrage, hedge arbitrage, HFT, or emulator-based systems.
• Traders must declare their EA strategy when funded and report any material changes.
• Accounts using identical or near-identical EA configurations may be grouped under a combined capital allocation, and Hola Prime may deny, rebalance, or terminate such accounts.
• Hola Prime may request the EA's configuration, logic, or source code for review. - Position sizers and risk calculators are allowed only as analytical tools and must not auto-execute or modify trades.

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Consistent Trading Methodology

Traders must maintain a broadly consistent trading approach across the Challenge and Sim Funded stages. Using an EA, algorithm, or bot to pass the Challenge and then switching to manual trading on the funded account (or vice versa) is strictly prohibited. Materially changing asset classes, symbol categories, margin utilization, or risk exposure between stages is also prohibited. The strategy used to pass the Challenge is your proven strategy, and material deviations may result in account review, suspension, or reward denial.

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Copy Trading

• Copy trading is permitted between Hola Prime accounts owned by the same individual, subject to the following conditions:
• Challenge Accounts- No restriction on copy trading between Challenge Accounts, provided all participating accounts are owned by the same individual.
• Funded Accounts: Copy trading involving Hola Prime Funded Accounts is limited to two accounts owned by the same individual, structured as: 1 Master Account;1 Copier Account. Copy trading beyond the permitted 1 Master + 1 Copier structure is a rule violation and may result in a breach.
• Challenge & Funded Accounts: Copy trading from Challenge to Funded is limited to only one Hola Prime Funded Account. There is no limit on accounts for copy trading from Hola Prime -Funded to Challenge Accounts.
• Copying trades from accounts held with other proprietary trading firms to Hola Prime accounts is strictly prohibited.

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Weekend Holding & Crypto Trading on Weekends

Evaluation:

• 1-Step Prime, 2-Step Prime & 2-Step Pro: Allowed with no restrictions
• 2-Step Fly: Prohibited – All trades must be closed before 15:45 EST on Friday, any trades remaining open will be auto-closed and the account permanently terminated (hard breach).

Funded

• 1-Step Prime & 2-Step Prime: Allowed
• 2-Step Fly, 2-Step Pro & Direct(Instant Funding): Prohibited

For Pro - All trades are automatically closed at 15:45 EST on Friday and the account is disabled, contact support to have it re-enabled for trading from Monday onwards.

For Direct & 2-Step Fly - All trades must be closed before 15:45 EST on Friday, any trades remaining open will be auto-closed and the account permanently terminated (hard breach).

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Inactivity Rule

Accounts inactive for 30 consecutive days are permanently suspended. Only opening a new trade counts as an active trading day.

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2% Risk Per Trade Idea Rule on the Direct, 1-Step Prime, 2-Step Prime and 2-Step Pro Funded Accounts

Your risk per trade idea should not exceed 2% of the account size (initial balance). 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 Rules For Defining The 2% Risk Per Trade Idea Rule

• A Stop Loss is mandatory for every trade. The absence of a Stop Loss will be considered as infinite risk by default.
• Failure to comply with this requirement constitutes a hard breach and may result in account termination.
• -There is no fixed window requiring the Stop Loss to be set immediately — traders may manage risk to suit their strategy, as long as the Stop Loss is placed before the trade is closed.
• Traders must follow sound risk management at all times. Violations of prohibited trading practices may result in the risk limit being reduced to 1%, communicated via official channels.

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Max Exposure Limits
2-Step Pro – Funded Only

• $5K & $10K — No lot limit
• $25K — 10 lots | $50K — 20 lots | $100K — 40 lots | $200K — 80 lots

If breached:

• All open trades auto-closed and account disabled
• Profits from exceeding trades are deducted
• Trader is responsible if deductions trigger Daily or Max Loss Limit breach

Consequences:

1. 1st breach: Warning + profit deduction; account can be re-enabled via support
2. 2nd breach: Profit deduction + profit split reduced to 30% + account termination

• Note: From the 2nd Scaling onwards, traders with a 2-Step Pro Funded Account will receive a 10% increase in their maximum lot exposure, calculated based on the account’s original maximum base lot limit. This increase applies at each successful scaling.

2-Step Fly – Funded Only

• The maximum position size is capped at 5 lots per order, with no restriction on the total number of trades.

MT5 Platform Limits

• On the MT5 platform, there is a hard platform‑side limit of 100 orders at a time and 1,000 maximum positions per day, which includes new orders and any order modifications (such as TP/SL changes or updates to limit orders).​

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Daily drawdown breach Payout protection policy

If the Daily Loss Limit is breached but the account is profitable, the trader may still receive 100% of their reward and fee reimbursement provided: no single trade exceeded 1% of the initial balance in profit or loss, and all trades had a stop loss in place. Both conditions must be met. Any breach caused by prohibited trading practices or other rule violations results in full forfeiture of profits and pending payouts.

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Prohibited strategies

Gambling / Speculative Trading(Concentrated Exposure, Grid Trading, Excessive use of margin and high risk on trades, Strategies which are not reasonably replicable in real markets, Trading without considering technicals or fundamentals, Inconsistent Trading Practices), Hyperactivity / Excessive Trading, Account or Device Sharing, One-Sided Betting, Arbitrage Trading, Tick Scalping / High-Frequency Trading (HFT), Copy Trading Across Different Users, Group Hedging / Cross-Account Hedging, Gap Trading, Account Rolling, Overleveraging / Overexposure, Exploiting Server Errors / Price Feed Discrepancies, Quick Strike Methods, Martingale, DCA(Platform Exploitation, Dollar-Cost Averaging)

Note: These prohibited strategies do not apply to 2-Step Fly Funded Accounts.

Device, VPN, VPS & IP Address Policy: https://holaprime.com/trading-rules-list/trading-rules-prohibited-trading-practices/

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Prime Consistency Program

The Prime Consistency Program (PCP) forms part of Hola Prime's trader sustainability framework and is designed to support traders whose recent trading behavior indicates elevated risk or inconsistency.

See details: https://holaprime.com/forex/faq/prime-consistency-program/what-is-hola-primes-prime-consistency-program

News Trading:

• News trading is not allowed 5 minutes before and after high impact news. Trades that were opened at least two hours prior to the scheduled high-impact news event are allowed to close during the restricted period, including closure triggered by Take Profit or Stop Loss.
• News trading is allowed on the Instant Funding Pro and Phoenix Instant without restriction.

Copy Trading:

• Allowed only between Moneta Funded accounts (except Sprint accounts). A Moneta Funded account may act as a copied or “slave” account only when the master account is also a Moneta Funded account and both accounts belong to the same individual.

Maximum daily profit (Instant Funding Pro):

• 4%

Max Floating Loss:

• 2-Step Funded Accounts (5% Daily Loss option) and Instant Pro: 3% of the account size in floating loss on the same symbol
• 2-Step Funded Accounts (4% Daily Loss option), 1-Step Funded Accounts, Instant Funding, and Phoenix: 2% of the account size in floating loss on the same symbol

Static Drawdown rule for 1-Step Daily:

• One Step Daily uses a 2% static Maximum Loss during normal trading. It does not trail as the account grows. Once a payout is approved, the Maximum Loss Level locks at the account's original starting balance. The lock is triggered by payout approval, not by completion of the payment transfer.

Prohibited Practices:

Risk management:

• Allocating a substantial or majority portion of the allowable daily loss or available margin to a single trade idea, whether through realized losses, stop-loss exposure, or a set of highly correlated positions, is prohibited.

Martingale:

• Martingale is a trading strategy that involves increasing position size after a loss in an attempt to recover previous losses with a single winning trade; the use of martingale strategies is prohibited.

Grid Trading/ Hedging:

• Grid Trading or Hedging is a trading approach where opposing buy and sell orders for the same instrument are strategically placed to achieve equivalent or similar risk, and is prohibited.

Reverse trading:

• Whether conducted between different proprietary trading firms or internally between multiple Moneta Funded accounts, is strictly prohibited.

High-Frequency Trading (HFT):

• Refers to trading patterns that rely primarily on extremely short holding times, rapid order placement, or execution speed rather than genuine market direction or strategy. This may include automated or manual strategies designed mainly to exploit latency, price feed differences, or execution mechanics through very high volumes of rapid trades. Short-term trading and scalping are permitted. Trades held for seconds or minutes as part of a legitimate discretionary or systematic strategy are considered normal trading activity. However, trading behavior that consistently involves extremely short-duration trades executed in very high frequency, or strategies built primarily around execution speed rather than market analysis, may be classified as HFT and may trigger risk controls or account limitations.

Hyperactivity and Excessive Order Spamming:

• Trading activity that involves an abnormally high volume of orders, excessive scaling, or repetitive order placement without a genuine discretionary trading rationale is prohibited.

Latency Arbitrage Trading:

• Involves employing a data stream intentionally designed to have a delay or lag in providing market data, such as stock prices or trading volumes. This grants an unjust advantage to the trader compared to others who must rely on real-time market data.

General Exploitation of a Demo Environment:

• While Latency Arbitrage Trading is one of the most frequented methodologies utilized to exploit demo environments, it's not the only way traders can exploit a demo environment in order to make unethical gains that wouldn't otherwise be possible within legitimate financial markets. That is, traders can also take advantage of glitches that arise within a demo environment rather than reporting the glitch taking place.

Gamification of the Evaluation:

• Participants must engage in genuine market speculation based on their own discretionary analysis. Any attempt to optimize, manipulate, or ""game"" the parameters of the evaluation instead of trading the financial markets is prohibited. This includes statistical or probability-based approaches that seek to exploit the firm's rules without a genuine market thesis, trigger, or understanding. Trading strategies whose primary objective is to maximize the probability of passing the evaluation by exploiting the program's mechanics, rather than demonstrating authentic trading skill, are not permitted.

Account Sharing:

• Traders are prohibited from sharing accounts or transferring Simulated Funded Accounts from one owner to another for any purpose.

Phoenix Scaling Program:

• The Phoenix Program provides a unique opportunity for rewarding traders who consistently exhibit expert performance. Account holders will be automatically progressed to the next phase upon completion of the below detailed Targets for Scaling.
• Traders may begin at Level 1, Level 2, Level 3, or Level 4 of the program.
• Once the 10% profit target for the selected starting level is achieved, that 10% will be converted into withdrawable credit at the next level.
• The credit may be withdrawn at the next payout, provided the 14-day minimum payout interval and the requirement of 3 minimum profitable days are met.
• For example, a trader starting at Level 2 ($5,000 starting balance) who reaches the 10% profit target ($500) will automatically scale to Level 3 ($10,000 starting balance).
• The $500 profit is converted into withdrawable credit.

At this point, the trader has two options:

Option 1 – Continue scaling:

• The trader may continue trading and work toward the Level 3 profit target of 10% ($1,000). Once this target is reached, the account will scale to the next level.

Option 2 – Request a payout:

• After the minimum 14-day trading period from the first trade and at least 3 profitable days are met, the trader may request a payout. Any new profits generated on the Level 3 account can be withdrawn together with the $500 credit.
• For example, if the trader earns an additional $200 on the Level 3 account, they may
• request a payout of $700 ($500 credit + $200 profit), provided the payout conditions are satisfied.
• If the trader chooses to withdraw the $700, they will still need to generate the full Level 3 profit target of 10% ($1,000) in order to scale up to the next level.