Prop Firm Rules

News Trading for Hyper-Growth and Bootcamp: News trading is allowed except for bracket strategies around news.
For high stakes: Executing orders 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after high-impact news is prohibited.

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

Expert Advisors are allowed, as long as it's alligned with terms and conditions.

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.

Rules for the Bootcamp:
* A stop-loss is required in all positions and orders.
* The SL in any position must not risk more than 2% of the account balance.
* Opening a position without an SL order, or risking more than 2% of the account balance in a single position, will be considered a risk violation.

Prohibited practices:

* One-sided bets refer to a trading strategy where the user takes consistent positions in one single direction without considering market conditions or conducting proper analysis.

* Use exploitation of price discrepancies or glitches within different markets of similar or identical assets, also known as arbitrage.

* 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.

* Intentionally or unintentionally employ trading strategies that take advantage of errors within the system, such as inaccuracies in price display or delays in updating.

Inactivity rule: (accounts without new orders) for more than 30 consecutive calendar days will expire.

* News Trading: Prohibited for funded traders (Non-swing accounts).
* Weekend Trades: Holding trades over the weekend is prohibited for funded traders (Non-swing accounts).
* Capital Allocation Limit: 400k max capital per strategy per person. Accounts with identical trading strategies exceeding $400,000 allocated capital may be suspended.
* Third-Party Trading: Your account must not be traded by any third party.
* Position Sizes: Opening significantly larger/smaller position sizes or substantially different numbers of positions compared to other trades is prohibited.
* Forbidden Trading Practices: Provider reserves the right to determine at its discretion if certain trades, practices, strategies, or situations are considered forbidden trading.
* Multiple Profile Accounts: Opening multiple profile accounts is prohibited.
* Copy Trading: Allowed
* EAs: Allowed
* News Trading : Allowed: Swing accounts. Not allowed: Funded accounts within 2 minutes before or after high-impact news. (Permitted during Evaluation)
* Min trading days: 4 days
* Inactivity: 30 days (You must open at least one trade every 30 days to prevent account termination due to inactivity. Alternatively, you can request to freeze your account for 7 days to 6 months to avoid termination.)

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* Copy Trading is not allowed on all programs

* Risk management or trade management EA can be used for all model, using third party EA is not allowed for all model(For All Program)

FundingPip Zero

* Account will be suspended if it remains inactive for 30days.

* 7 minimum trading days( atleast 0.25% per day)

* No maximum trading days.

* News trading is not allowed.

FundingPips ( 1 Step) /FundingPips ( 2 Step)/ FundingPips 2 Step pro

* During Evaluation; News trading and weekend trading is allowed without restriction.

* During the funded phase; you cannot open or hold position 5min before and 5min after an event.

* Minimum  of 3 trading days.

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COPY TRADING:

* Copy Trading is allowed between FN challenge accounts only and not on a funded account phase.
* Total capital across all copy trading accounts must not exceed $300K.
* The use of cloud-based third-party copier services like Social Trader Tools, Traders Connect, and Duplikum is prohibited.
EA'S

* EA's are allowed, only works on MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5.
* EA must be customized to suit your trading style, Identical trades across accounts are not allowed.
* Switching Between EA and manual trading is not allowed.

Minimum Trading Days

FundedNext's minimum trading day requirements vary by challenge type:

Evaluation, Stellar Lite, and Stellar 2-Step Challenges: Require a minimum of 5 trading days.

Stellar 1-Step Challenge: Requires a minimum of 2 trading days.

Express Account: Requires a minimum of 10 trading days, applicable to both the Challenge and FundedNext accounts.

For FundedNext Accounts, there is no minimum trading day requirement for Evaluation, Stellar Lite, Stellar 1-Step, and Stellar 2-Step challenges.

News Trading

Allowed: Stellar, Stellar Lite, and Evaluation accounts. Not allowed: Express accounts within 5 minutes before or after high-impact news.

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Inactivity Rules

To avoid the account inactivity period, traders can simply login to their account at least once or execute a single trade within a period of 35 consecutive days

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* Your IP address for Phase 1, Phase 2, and live accounts must match the same geographical region. If it changes, you must provide proof (e.g., plane tickets or live location verification) to justify the change.

* Gambling is prohibited and includes:

* Excessive Scalping: Holding 50%+ of trades for less than a minute.
* Martingale: Opening 5 simultaneous positions in drawdown on the same pair.
* All-In: Making a single trade with no stop-loss or risking more than the drawdown limit to pass or fail the challenge.

* Trades cannot be opened or closed within 2 minutes before or after a red folder news. Violations, including during auto-closure, disqualify evaluation or challenge accounts. Profits from restricted news events are not credited during the challenge or live phase.

* Traders can withdraw a maximum of $10,000 per two withdrawal cycles, regardless of multiple accounts. Profits exceeding $10,000 are capped, and account balances reset after two cycles. Withdrawal cycles are tied to the first account’s withdrawal timing.

* In the funded stage, if total profits exceed $5,000, no single trading day or trade may account for more than 50% of the profit. Excess profits beyond the 50% threshold are reduced to comply. Example: For $8,000 total profit, the maximum eligible profit from a single day or trade is $4,000.

* Copy Trading is allowed.

* The trades must be your own. Copying trades from your personal account to Maven or between your own Maven accounts is acceptable.

* Your Maven account can be a master or slave account.

* risk management or trade management EA are allowed.

* You may be asked to provided the code to your EA, failure to comply can lead to account termination.

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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. It is required that at least 50% of your requested profit comes from trades that exceed 2 minutes.
Order block spamming: Entering multiple order in a short period of time.‍

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 Pro accounts, trading around high-impact news is restricted to 2 minutes before or after the news release. For Alpha One and Alpha Three accounts, 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
Drawdown Adjustment Rule for Alpha One Accounts: If your 6% trailing Max Drawdown resets to the initial balance after reaching a 6% profit, maintain a profit buffer to keep trading. Withdrawing all profits will result in account closure.
Risk management: Consistently losing or risking 3.5-5% in a single trade or sequence of trades closed around the same time.

* News trading is allowed, but trades opened/closed within 10 minutes before or after high-impact news are considered influenced, with profits capped at 50%.

* Funded traders must place at least 1 trade every 30 days to avoid account termination. Inactivity results in account closure with no refunds or payouts.

* Copy Trading is Allowed only on Funding traders account linked to you.

* Risk management or trade management EA are allowed.

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* Minimum days For Evalaution account; Min. Trading Day of 1 for $5k-$100k account sizes, For accounts $200k, $350k, and $500k, the minimum trading days are 7, 25, and 40, respectively.

* Minimum days For Funded account; 1 day.

* Maximum days: unlimited days

* Inactivity Rule Update: Starting from February 12, 2025, a new inactivity rule will be implemented for all challenge and funded accounts. Accounts that remain inactive for 14 consecutive calendar days will be subject to this rule.

Max Position Size: 50 lots per order for FX & commodities, 100 lots per order for indices.‍

Independent Evaluation: Each trading evaluation must be completed independently. ‍

Server Request Limitation: 2000 modifications of TP/SL and orders per day. The maximum position limit per day is also 2000.

‍Risk Management: Risking your entire account balance on a single trade is not permitted. Excessively risky trading styles violate terms and will result in account termination with a full refund.

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

Trade Copying: In the evaluation phase, copying trades manually or via EAs from one account to another, including from a master account to an evaluation account, is 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 2% per trade idea or time horizon if prohibited practices are detected.

Payout-On-Demand Rules:  
 1. All Accounts (except 3-step accounts): Default payout method.  
 2. E8 One & Classic:  
    - No single day >40% of total profit.  
    - Net profit >50% of daily drawdown.  
 3. E8 Pro:  
    - At least 4 profitable days (0.5% daily PnL minimum).  
    - Minimum profit request: 4% of balance.

Copy Trading: Allowed,You can copy trades from or to your personal account, another account, or even between multiple E8 Trader accounts, or between E8 Trader account and evaluation account (As long as these are your own trades from your own account).
There is only one restriction:
​You cannot copy trades (or use the same trading ideas) between multiple E8 evaluation accounts. Each evaluation must be done independently.

EAs: 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: Evaluation accounts. Not allowed: Funded accounts within 5 minutes before or after high-impact news.

Min trading days: -E8 Classic, E8 Track,E8 Track1:1, E8 One: 1 day   - E8 pro: 4 profitable days with at least 0.5% daily

Inactivity: After 90 days of inactivity, the account is disabled and there is no entitlement to a refund.

* News trading is allowed during the Challenge Phase but prohibited on Live Simulated Accounts. Trades opened or closed within 3 minutes before or after high-risk news will result in profit removal for those trades. This is a soft breach and does not terminate the account. Trades can still be held through the violation window.

* The minimum of 3 profitable days (each generating at least 0.5% of the initial balance) applies only to 1-step, 2-step, and 2-step max evaluation phases, not live simulated accounts. Failing to meet this requirement is not a breach but delays passing the evaluation or challenge until fulfilled.

* Copy Trading is allowed.

* EA is allowed only on Ctrader.

* Place a trade atleast once every 30 days to avoid inactivity.

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* News trading is allowed, but trades opened/closed within 2 minutes before or after high-impact news can generate a maximum profit of 1% of the account’s initial balance. Excess profits are removed without penalties. This applies to both challenge and funded phases.

* Spreading false information or negative advertising about Goat Funded Trader on social media or public platforms is prohibited. Violations result in account termination, a permanent ban, and potential legal action.

* GFT may impose a 1% risk limit per trade idea if excessive risk-taking is detected. Non-compliance results in immediate account breach, with no payouts or entitlements. Restrictions may be lifted with consistent safe trading practices.

* Traders on funded accounts are allowed to generate a maximum profit of $3,000 per trading day. Any profits exceeding this limit will be deducted from the account.

* For the first two payout requests, traders may withdraw a maximum profit of 6% of the initial account balance. Any profits exceeding this limit will be deducted from the account balance.

* Copy Trading is only allowed between GFT funded account only.( The accounts must be owned by the same user).

* Risk management or trade management EA are allowed.

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Account Management:

1. No Multiple Profile Accounts:
Opening multiple profiles with FXIFY is prohibited.

2. KYC Compliance:
Traders must complete KYC verification with FXIFY and their payment provider, Rise, to activate their accounts.

3. Prohibition on Same-Sized Challenge Accounts:
Trading on two challenge accounts of the same size simultaneously is not allowed.

4. Computer ID (CID) Policy:
Sharing accounts or using the same computer by multiple users could raise flags for unauthorized account management or KYC breaches.

Crypto trading:
* Crypto (Available only on MT4/MT5)
* Crypto can't be traded during the weekends for instant accounts

Withdrawal Drawdown Lock-in:

When a withdrawal is requested, drawdown limits reset to the initial starting balance, potentially causing account breaches for  step and 2 step accounts:

1. For 1-Step Accounts:

Example:
Starting Balance: $100,000
Daily Drawdown: 5% ($95,000)
Max Trailing Drawdown: 6% ($94,000)
Scenario:
If you earn $6,000 and request to withdraw it, the reset would breach the $94,000 Max Trailing Drawdown limit.
Outcome: The withdrawal will be honored, but the account is forfeited.

2. For 2-Step Accounts:
Example:
Starting Balance: $100,000
Daily Drawdown: 4% ($96,000)
Max Drawdown: 10% ($90,000)

Scenario:
If you profit $10,000 and withdraw it, the reset would breach the $100,000 Max Drawdown lock.
Outcome: The withdrawal will be processed, but the account is forfeited.

Copy Trading: Allowed, you can copy trades between your FXIFY accounts and from your FXIFY accounts to other accounts but to copy trades from other accounts to your FXIFY accounts,  you are required to provide  a trading statement. Not allowed FOR INSTANT FUNDING ACCOUNTS.

EAs:          
* 1 step,2step and 3 step :Allowed ( except for Dxtrade accounts)
* Instant funding:Not allowed

News Trading: 1-phase, 2-phase, and 3-phase (both during challenges & Funded stage) are allowed. Instant accounts are restricted from trading  5 minutes before and after news
Min trading days: 5 days (1,2,3 steps) , N/A (Instant Accounts)
Inactivity: 60 days

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‍Inactivity rule: All accounts, will be deactivated after 30 days of inactivity. Once deactivated, accounts cannot be restored.

‍News Trading: Allowed with restriction: 5 minutes prior to and after a high-impact news, News trading is allowed in all evaluation program without any restriction.

‍Consistency Rule for Instant Funding Accounts:

‍For Instant Funding standard accounts, A 40% Daily Consistency Rule applies: You cannot request a payout until the highest profit trading day falls below the 40% of total profits made on that account within that particular period,

‍ For Instant Funding pro accounts, A 15% Daily Consistency Rule applies: You cannot request a payout until the highest profit trading day falls below the 15% of total profits made on that account within that particular period.

‍All or Nothing:  All or nothing practices are prohibited.

‍Floating Drawdown Limit: For Instant Funding Pro accounts, If your floating PnL (profit and loss) drops below -2% of the account balance, the account will be permanently closed. 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.

News Trading & Copy Trading: Allowed with no restrictions during Evaluation and Funded stages.

Automated strategies and EA's: Allowed with no restriction.
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Consistency rule‍: Only on combine accounts your profits should not exceed 50% of your total profit target.

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

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

More Prohibited trading conduct can be found via this link: https://intercom.help/topstep-llc/en/articles/10296582-prohibited-conduct

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* Restriction on unethical trading practices, such as latency arbitrage, account arbitrage, tick scalping or any other forms of cheating.

* High-impact are classified as “Major News” and may only be traded within the designated 8-minute window with a major news trading add-on.

* Copy Trading is allowed.

* You can copy trade within your Instant funding accounts or copy trade with other accounts.

* You can use your Instant funding account as a master or slave account.

* Risk management or trade management EA are allowed.

* Maximum inactivity period is 60 days

* Only 2 funded accounts are available for a user per time.
* Users cannot trade the same markets at the same time on more than one account
* Holding opposing positions on multiple accounts  is considered cheating and will lead to account closure without a refund.    

Copy Trading

* Copy Trading is allowed but with the following conditions, you can't Copy trade from one FT+ account to another FT+ Account.
* You can only copy trade from a non FT+ account to a FT+ account.
* You can only copy trade to one FT+ Account.
* Your FT+ account can be a master account or Slave account.

EA's

* EA's are allowed, Only works with Platform 4 , Platform 5 and Ctrader only.( Across all programs)

Minimum Trading days

* Only the Prestige(Static) program requires a minimum of 3 trading days, other programs have none.

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Inactivity rules

* Your ‘FT+ Trader’ account would only expire in the event that there is no simulated trading activity on it within a 30-day period.

Expert Advisors (EA) & Trade Copiers

* Pre-Approval for EA: Before using EAs, they must go through a pre-approval process.

* Trade Copiers: Web-based and software trade copiers are permitted upon requesting approval. However, if the trader's account is flagged for any reason, the firm may request additional information about the master account and the trade copier.

No Group Trading: If multiple traders are detected using the same EA and placing identical trades, the account will be flagged for violating "No Group Trading"" rules, which may lead to account closure."

News Trading: Allowed without a restriction on QT Power Plan & Flagship, with restrictions of 5 minutes before or after a high economic news release for Advanced Plan.

Gambling Rule: The maximum risk per trade or overall open positions is 2%. (Hard Breach)

Consistency Rule: Both Challenge and Funded Accounts must maintain a 35% consistency score for "QT Power",  "1-step Plan" Largest daily profit should not exceed 30% of your total gains at the time of payout or passing.
1-Step challenge:

Consistency Rule: 30%—The largest daily profit should not exceed 30% of your total gains at the time of payout or passing.

2% soft cap - daily profit limit of 2%. Challenge and Funded stages

Funded accounts must achieve a minimum profit of 0.5% on at least two separate days within a trading cycle.

Minimum Trading: 5 Days
                                                                                                                                                                                     
QT-Flagship Plan: 2-Steps & 3-Steps

Minimum Days: 4 trading days per each phase
Minimum profit required on every phase +0.25% x 4 separate days
Max Risk per Trade: 1.5%
Gambling rule: No all-or-nothing approach

QT-Advanced Plan: 2-Steps & 3-Steps

Minimum Days: 4 Trading days per each phase  
Max Risk per Trade, all phases (Gambling rule) 1.5% per symbol
at one time  
2% total max risk allowed overall at one time  
Minimum profit required In a funded cycle +0.5% x 2 separate
days in cycle

News Trading: Restrictions of 5 minutes before or after a high economic news release

Prohibited trading strategies:

* Exploiting unrealistic prices: Arbitrage, Latency trading, Front-running, Mispricing
* High-frequency trading, Reverse trading/group hedging
* No account management services allowed. All trades must be conducted by the account holder. Review and approval are required for expert advisors. Inactivity rule: If no trading activity occurs for 30 consecutive days, the account will be breached and deleted and cannot be reinstated.

* News Trading: Allowed with restriction: 5 minutes prior to and after a high-impact news, News trading is allowed in all evaluation program without any restriction.

* Inactivity rule: All accounts, will be deactivated after 30 days of inactivity.

* Risk management: Risking 3-4% on a single trade with excessive margin and no stop-loss is against our rules.

* All or Nothing: All or nothing practices are prohibited.

* Drawdown Adjustment Rule for Rapid and Instant accounts: If your 6% trailing Max Drawdown resets to the initial balance after reaching a 6% profit, maintain a profit buffer of 1% to keep trading. Withdrawing all profits will result in account closure.

* Consistency Rule for Instant Funding Accounts: A 20% Daily Consistency Rule applies: You cannot request a payout until the highest profit trading day falls below the 20% of total profits made on that account within that particular period.

* Excessive risk taking exacerbated by news events. This relates to a “Boom or Bust” approach where the success or failure of the account relies upon one simulated-trade, or a series of simulated-trades connected to a major news event.

* Utilizing one strategy to pass an assessment and then utilizing a different strategy in a funded account."

• VPS and trade copier EAs have been banned, effective immediately for all new purchases. Existing users have (until March 6, 2025) before the rule applies to them.
• Guardian Shield Update for Elite/2-Step Pro Challenge
• Max breaches reduced from 4 to 2 for new accounts
• 50% Consistency Rule introduced for new accounts.

Daily Limits (PRO Accounts):
* Daily profit cap: 2%.
* Daily loss limit: 3%.
System automatically closes all open positions and pauses trading until the next trading day when either limit is reached.

Profit Days Requirements:
* 1 Step: 3 profitable days (min 0.5% profit each day) required in each phase and on the funded account to request a reward.
* 2 Step: 3 profitable days (min 0.5% profit each day) required in each phase and on the funded account to request a reward.
* 2 Step PRO: No profitable days required for the challenge or funded account.
* Instant Funded: 7 profitable days (min 0.5% profit each day) required.

Profit & Activity Rules:
* Instant Funding Profit Cap: Best day's profit must stay below 15% of total profit.
* Inactivity Rule (Instant Funding Accounts): Accounts go inactive after 7 days of no trades.

Trading Rules:
*Profit Target Rule (1 Step and 2 Step Challenge): During the Challenge, no single trade may exceed 70% of the Profit

*Margin Rule: Traders cannot use more than 40% of the available margin for one single trade or multiple trades on the same instrument in the same direction (not applicable to Challenge PRO and Instant funding).

* Copy Trading: Yes, only as master.

* EAs: Semi-automated only(EA that helps you but don't execute  trade on on their own )

News Trading : ‍

* Allowed: During  1 and 2 steps  Evaluation stage and 2 step pro ( Both challenge and funded stage)
* Not allowed:  For Instant funding accounts,1 step Funded Accounts and 2 step Funded Accounts  trades can't be open within 5 minutes before or after high-impact news.

Min trading days: 3 minimum Profitable Days (1 step and 2 step), 7 minimum Profitable Days ( for instant accounts), None for 2 step pro.

Inactivity: 7 consecutive days  for instant  accounts, 30 consecutive days for 1,2 and 2 step pro accounts

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· 30 seconds rule: (Not applicable to accounts purchased after June 28th 2023): Trades with a duration of less than 30 seconds cannot exceed 5% of the total trades in the account. Profits obtained in less than this duration will be subtracted.

· Gambling rule: The daily and/or per-trade profit limit is $10,000.

· Using any third-party strategy is not allowed, a strategy marketed to overcome the requirements of the valuation or evaluation phase.

· Executing trade ideas that belong to or are inspired by third party provider is prohibited.

News Trading: Allowed with no restriction; however, please be aware that a stock that is reporting (during earning season) at after-market hours or the next day premarket won’t be available for overnight holdings.

Copy Trading: Only manual copy trading is allowed, only between 2 accounts (not more) that are either Mini BP or Super BP. This means 2 Mini BP or 2 Super BP or 1 Mini and 1 Super.

Consistency Rule: Best position cannot account for more than 30% of the total profit target. (Applies only on evaluation account)

Minimum positions: 20 positions "Day Trading" and 15 positions "Swing"

For Day Trading Program:

Trade Duration: There must be at least a 60-second gap between every buy-sell or sell-buy order.

Trade Range: all profitable positions must achieve a minimum of 10 cents per share in profit.

End of Day: 10 minutes before the end of the day, we will fully liquidate your account (open positions and pending orders).

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* Consistency Rule: When requesting a payout, no single trading day should account for more than 30% of the total profit balance accumulated‍

* Inconsistent Sizing: Drastic inconsistencies in trade sizes are not allowed; traders must maintain consistent trade sizing.‍

*Contract Scaling Rules: Traders are limited to trading half of the available contracts until they meet the trailing threshold stop.

* Risk managment: A maximum 5:1 risk-to-reward ratio applies to all trades

* Limit on Losses: Open trades should not exceed a 30% negative drawdown from the account’s profit balance, If the account balance doubles the safety net, traders may use a 50% drawdown limit instead of 30%.

* One-Direction Rule: Traders may take a position in either long (buy) or short (sell) during a news event. Holding positions in both directions simultaneously is strictly prohibited.

* Evaluation count: Trading more than one breakout evaluation at the same time is prohibited.

* Choice of strategy: Traders are not allowed to use one strategy to pass an assessment and then switch to adifferent strategy in a funded account.

* Utilizing any third-party strategy, off-the-shelf strategy or one marketed to pass evaluation requirements is not allowed.

* Inactivity rule: If you are inactive for 90 days, your account will be disabled.

News Trading Rules:
* During the evaluation stage, traders are allowed to trade during high-impact news.
* Once funded, traders with Starter and Expert accounts must avoid all Tier 1 news on both Sim-Funded and Live accounts. This restriction applies for 2 minutes before and after high-impact news events.

* Milestone and Starter Plus accounts are exempt from these restrictions.

Automated Trading Protocols and EA's: The use of AI, bots, and other automated trading mechanisms is strictly prohibited across all account types.

* Only Semi-Automated Trading is permissible under the condition that traders actively monitor, manually manage, and understand the system and semi-automation's purpose.

Copy trading and trade copiers: are allowed across all MFFU accounts.

Consistency rule:

For Starter plus: 50% consistency rule in the evaluation stage only.
For Starter Plan: Traders must meet a 40% consistency rule on Sim-Funded, no consistency is required during Evaluation.
For Milestone Plan: 20% consistency rule applies to all phases.

Inactivity Rule: To maintain an active Sim Funded Account, traders must place at least one trade every seven days cycle. Traders planning to take a vacation or a break from trading must inform the support team in advance.

More Prohibited conducts can be found via this link: https://help.myfundedfutures.com/en/articles/8444599-fair-play-and-prohibited-trading-practices

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Position Closure:  
* All positions must be closed 1 minute before market close to manage end-of-day risk, excluding the Diamond Hands program.  

Weekly Trading Requirement:  
* At least 1 trade per week is required to maintain an active account. Notify ETF if unable to trade for specific reasons.  

Risk Management:  
* Daily Loss Limit: Accounts losing more than 35% of growth in a single day after achieving 20% growth will be invalidated.  
* Trailing Drawdown: Drawdown follows highest intraday gains and stops trailing when realized gains exceed the drawdown amount plus $100.  

Prohibited Practices:  
* Micro Trading: Placing trades with minimal risk to meet withdrawal criteria is not allowed.  
* IP Masking: Using VPNs, VPS, or other IP-masking technologies is prohibited.  
* Self-Hedging: Taking offsetting positions on the same instrument is prohibited.
* Only 1 account per household is allowed.  

Elite Sim-Funded Requirements:  
* Active Days: Required number of trading days per payout cycle must be met.  
* Audit Compliance: If payout requests are denied/delayed due to non-compliance 3 times, the account will be closed.  

Subscription Policy:  
* Subscriptions remain active after account failure. Traders can reset Elite Sim-Funded accounts at cost or cancel subscriptions to avoid future billing.

Copy Trading: Allowed

EAs: Allowed but needs permission to be approved

News Trading: Allowed

Inactivity:
* Users must log in at least once every 30 days to maintain an active account
* Traders must execute at least one trade each week.

Profitable Day Requirements:  
* Challenge Programs: At least 3 profitable days, each with a minimum of 0.5% profit.  
* Instant Funding: No minimum profitable day requirement.  

Risk Parameters:  
* Risk department may enforce temporary measures like leverage limits or position size restrictions.  
* Applies to: Multiple account blowouts, limited trading history, deviations from trading patterns, frequent risk violations, excessive drawdowns, or high-risk exposure in volatile markets.  

Device Limitations:  
* Trading is limited to 2 devices (PC and mobile).  
* Additional device use requires approval with proof via video call.  
* Unauthorized device use results in account termination without a refund.  

Account Limits:  
* Evaluations phase : No limits.  
* 1-Step & 2-Step funded account: Max 2 x $100K or smaller equivalents.  
* Instant Funding: Max 1 x $80K or smaller equivalents.  
* Instant Funding Pro: Max 1 x $160K or smaller equivalents.  

Trading Rules:  
1. Stop-Loss: Must be placed within 1 minute of opening a trade (soft breach if missed).  
2. News Bracketing: Prohibited around high-impact events.  
3. Gambling Rule: Banned - excessively risky trades or maxing leverage to pass quickly.  
4. Account Churning: Multiple accounts traded with high risk to hit targets is prohibited.  
5. Multi-Account Reversal: Opposite positions across accounts (hedging/manipulation) is prohibited.
6.For the Instant Funding program, the first reward can be requested after achieving 5 profitable trading days and a minimum of 2% net profit of the initial balance.

Copy Trading: Yes, but proof of the trading account being copied from must be provided.

EAs: Allowed,you can use personally developed EAs on funded accounts but must submit the source code for verification. Third-party or exploitative EAs are prohibited.

News Trading: Allowed

Min trading days:
* Challenge Programs(1 and 2 steps) : Requires at least 3 Profitable Days, each with a profit of 0.5% or greater.
* Instant Funding and instant funding pro : No minimum number of Profitable Days is required.

Inactivity: 30 days

* One-sided Bets: Avoid trading predominantly in one direction without proper analysis, as excessive volume in a short amount of time may be considered gambling and is prohibited.
* Overleveraging: Excessive leverage is prohibited, ensure your margin level stays above 150% to avoid a margin breach.
* No excessive scalping - Defined as Holding 50% or more of your trades for less than a minute.
* All-In Trading Behavior: This refers to committing a large portion of account equity to a single trade or series of trades without proper risk management, such as trading without a stop-loss.
* Inactivity rule: You have to place a trade within 30 days to keep it active and avoid account suspension.
* News Trading: The trader must refrain from opening or closing trades 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after high-impact (red folder) news events on both evaluation and earning accounts. This includes trade execution and closure, even if you placed the trade before and your take-profit (TP) got hit during the restricted time frame.

* 150% Margin Limit Rule: Ensure your margin level stays above 150% to avoid a margin breach.

* One sided-bets is not allowed which refer to a trading strategy where the user takes consistently positions in one single direction without considering market conditions or conducting proper analysis.

* Stacking: Traders are prohibited from stacking, which involves placing an unusually large number of orders in a short period of time.

* Using software, artificial intelligence,ultra-high-speed trading, or mass data entry that could abuse the system or give an unfair advantage is not allowed.

* News Trading: Allowed with restriction: 5 minutes prior to and after a high-impact news, News trading is allowed in all evaluation program without any restriction.

Automated Trading Strategies: Expert Advisors (EAs) are allowed but require pre-approval.

Copy Trading: Allowed only in the funded stage under NinjaTrader.

Trading Rules

* No stop-loss requirements.
* News trading is allowed.
* Consistency Rule (40%): Profits from a single trading day should not exceed 40% of the profit target during the challenge.
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Minimum Trading Days: You must complete a minimum of 3 trading days during the evaluation stage.
Inactivity Rules

During the evaluation phase, traders must place at least 1 trade per week to remain active.
During the funded stage, traders must place at least 1 trade per month; otherwise, the account will be put on pause.

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* All trades must be closed by 3:45 PM EST on Fridays. Trades left open will be automatically closed, resulting in a soft breach, but trading can resume when markets reopen.

* Traders must place at least one trade every 30 days to avoid being marked inactive. Inactivity will result in an account breach.

* If you have gains in your Funded Account at the time of a hard breach, you will still receive your portion of those gains.

* Using one strategy to pass the assessment and another strategy to trade the funded stage is not allowed.

* Excessive risk taking is not Allowed

* Copy Trading is allowed.

* The trades must be your own. Copying trades from your personal account to Ment Funding or between your own Ment Funding accounts is acceptable.

* Risk management or trade management EA are allowed.

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‍Risk Limits:  

• Instant Accounts: Total risk per day must not exceed 2.5% of the previous day’s balance across all positions.  
• Instant Funding Accounts: Risk is capped at 50% of the daily drawdown limit across all open trades.  
• Challenge Accounts: No set maximum risk per trade, but sound risk management is strongly advised.  
• Pro accounts, The trader must achieve a net profit of 5% every 90-day period when funded

Instrument Consistency:

• ‍‍Funded traders must continue trading the same instrument categories used in the evaluation phase (e.g., FX pairs like EURUSD and GBPUSD). The asset classes must represent at least 10% of their total notional trading volume from the Challenge phase. For instance, if a trader executed $1M in Forex, $1M in Metals, and $50K in Crypto during the Challenge, they can only trade Forex and Metals in the Funded account. This rule prevents traders from gaining access to instruments they haven’t genuinely traded.

Mandatory Stop Loss Rule:‍

• All trades must have a stop loss within 60 seconds.
• Challenge accounts: 3-strike warning system before an automatic stop loss is applied.
• Funded accounts: Automatic stop loss applied after 60 seconds.
• Traders can manually adjust the substitute stop loss.

Minimum Stop-Loss Distance:‍

• Stop losses must be set at a minimum distance based on the 14-day ATR.
• Trades that don’t meet this requirement will be automatically rejected.

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Slippage and Risk:

• Exceeding your total risk limit due to slippage is not considered a breach.
• On Finotive Pro Accounts:
• Quarterly Profit Target: Funded accounts must achieve a profit of at least 5% every 90 days.
• Consistency Rules: After 30 days of funding, traders must trade within ±25% of their weekly trading volume average every week.
• Multiple Profiles: Creating multiple profiles is prohibited.

Copy Trading:

• Allowed, You can use external copy trading tools to connect your Finotive account with your personal accounts. However, copying trades between Finotive accounts of other users is prohibited.

EA Trading:

• Allowed, but avoid strategies like news straddling or holding hedged trades during major news events.

News Trading :

• ‍ Yes, but  News Straddling is Prohibited

Minimum trading days:

• 0 day

Inactivity rule:

• 30 days

* Consistency rule: One trading day cannot amount to more than 50% of your overall profit on evaluation, 40% on Qualified Standard Accounts, none on Qualified Advanced Account‍

* All or Nothing: All or nothing practices are prohibited.‍

* Average Trade Duration: Consistently just opening and closing positions less than 2 minutes to make profits without any plan.

* Gambling tendencies: or "account rolling" meaning taking max leverage positions with no plan, no stop loss, and hitting max loss on the account then buying more accounts and repeating the process until a trade hits.
Tick or Micro Scalping (trades less than 10 ticks)

* Price Limit Trading: Traders are prohibited from trading any product within 2% of a CME price limit

* Drawdown Adjustment Rule: Withdrawing all profits after your trailing balance has been adjusted to the account balance, will lead to account closure

* Withdrawal Limit: Maximum withdrawal request a trader can make on any Qualified Account is $15,000.

* Expert advisors: The use of AI, bots, and other automated trading mechanisms is strictly prohibited across all account types.

* Advanced Program payout policy: Weekly payouts after 5 winning days with $200+ profit each. Minimum payout is $1000, requiring at least $2000 in profits under the 50% rule. Until 30 trading days with $200+ profit are met, you can withdraw up to 50% of profits per request. After that, you may withdraw 100%.

* CFD Classic: Scalping Under 1 Minute: Trades must be kept open for at least 1 minute.

* Copy-Trading:

For CFDs: It is forbidden for traders to copy trades manually or automatically between their accounts.

For Futures: Traders are allowed to copy trades manually or automatically in up to 5 of your accounts.

Copying trades between your Challenge & Earning accounts is prohibited.

 Traders are allowed to copy trades from a personal external account to TTP accounts.

 Note that it is prohibited to copy trades from other traders or sources that are not your own.

* Expert Advisor: Allowed to trade using your own Expert Advisor (EA), as long as it does not perform any of the prohibited trading activities on terms and conditions.

* News Trading: Trading is prohibited 2 minutes before and after high-impact news events. "For CFD's and Futures Classic"  Allowed on Futures Prime.

* Consistency Rule: The current consistency rule is 40% of the profit target.

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

* Exploitation of System Errors: Trading strategies that exploit system errors or trade on external/slow data feeds are prohibited.

* Gambling and Inconsistent Trading: Traders must maintain consistent lot sizes in their trades to align, which demonstrates disciplined and strategic trading practice.

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* Traders have a 90-day time limit from the subscription date to complete the calibration stage, which may be extended if they are actively trading.

* Copy Trading: Allowed

* EAs: Allowed

* News Trading:  Allowed

* All positions and working orders must be closed by 3:50pm CT until 5pm CT.

* Over the course of the Evaluation (Challenge phase),no single trading day can exceed 30% or more of your total PnL.

* 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 is prohibited.

* Executing an unrealistic number of contracts in a single day is prohibited.

* The max withdraw from a LiveSim obtained after any size Gauntlet Mini™ evaluation is $4,000 .In order to be able to withdraw the full $4,000, the trader must reach a profit of $5,000 (the prop firm deducts 20%).

* Copy Trading: Not allowed

* EAs: allowed

* News Trading: allowed

* Min trading days: 10 days

* Inactivity: 5 consecutive trading days

News Trading: Restriction to open any positions and be working no orders in the order book, from 2 minutes before the data release until 2 minutes after the data release.

Copy Trading Rule:
TradeDay does not allow multiple evaluations or fund multiple accounts at this time.
Only one account per household
Trade copiers are allowed from your personal accounts elsewhere into your TradeDay account.

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

Minimum of 7 days objective: Minimum of 7 days of trading in order to complete this objective. No need to be consecutive. Traders finishing the profit target and the consistency objectives before completing 7 days are required to continue to trade in the style they have been. Microtrading is not allowed.

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.

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: Accounts inactive for a period of 45 days without prior consent are considered dormant and will be closed.

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

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* Consistency rule: Traders must show consistency in their results concerning trade length and lot size to meet the minimum trading days required for the specific programs. For instance,if a trader opens one position of 15 lots on one day and then six positions of 0.1 lot on six separate trading days, this will lead to failing the Ability Challenge.

* Consistency score: Traders are required to have a score above 70 to be considered consistent. Scores between 50 and 70 will prompt a risk team review to decide if trading should continue until the score exceeds 70. If the score is below 50, trading must continue until it rises above 50. Traders who meet the profit target but not the consistency score must keep trading until they do.

* Inactivity rule: Failure to engage in trading activity on your funded account for a consecutive one-month period will lead to the termination of your account due to inactivity.

* Traders are allowed to trade majors and minor cross pairs, but it's not allowed to trade any exotic pair.

* Dollar Cost Averaging: DCA, where traders add positions as a trade moves against them, this trading style is prohibited

* Multiple Evaluations can be taken simultaneously, but copying trades between Evaluation accounts is prohibited. Each Evaluation must be passed individually. Copy trading is allowed only between Funded Accounts.

* Traders must execute at least one trade every 30 days to avoid account inactivity and breach.

* Daily gains exceeding $10,000 (calculated at 5 PM EST) trigger the following actions:

Challenge Accounts: One violation results in restarting Phase 1 with no refund but a free evaluation.

Simulated Funded Accounts: Gains above $10,000 are excluded from payouts. Three violations lead to account breach with no payout.

Trades executed at similar times or partially closed count as a single trade.

* Copy Trading is allowed between Lark funded account.

* Copy trading between mutilple evaluation accounts is not allowed.

* Copy trading from a Lark funded account to a single Lark evaluation account is allowed.

* Risk management or trade management EA are allowed.

* Zero Minimum trading days.

* Unlimited trading days

* Traders are required to execute atleast once in 30 days.

* Expert Advisors (EAs): Traders can use EAs, scripts, and indicators. However, the firm does not allow copy trading, or EAs that engage in price or latency arbitrage techniques and other trading behavior as described in the applicable terms and conditions.

* News Trading:  Restrictions on trading in all instruments during major financial news events. Traders should avoid executing any new trades or closing existing positions within a 4-minute window: 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after the release of major news announcements.

* Copy Trading: Not allowing copy trading between multiple or into any accounts involved in the OANDA Prop Trader program.

Copying from the account to other non-OANDA companies and 3rd parties is not restricted.

* Daily Max Profit (Consistency trading rule): During the 2 assessment phases for both "Boost & Classic challenges":
Phase 1: 5% daily max profit
Phase 2: 2% daily max profit  

This rule does not apply once a Prop Trading account is allocated.

* Inactivity Rule: Inactivity over 20 calendar days is a hard breach: users who are inactive (no trades placed) for 20 consecutive days lose Challenge account access, and the account is closed.

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News Trading: Traders may hold existing positions through a news event. However, opening a position within 3 minutes before or after a News Event is prohibited.

Copy trading from one account to another is only permitted if the trader owns all the accounts in question.

Automated strategies and EAs are allowed on platforms 4 and 5, provided traders adhere to the rules. However, their use is subject to the firms policy on Prohibited Trading.

Relying on luck: Using all margin and max lot allowance to go “all-in” on one symbol or correlated symbols is not allowed.

Exploitative Strategies: Strictly prohibit risking full margin in a single trade.

Inactivity: 30 Days

More prohibited practices can be found via this link: https://dashboardanalytix.com/client-terms-and-policies/?v=8dd7bd7b56d0

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* Multiple Profiles: Creating multiple profiles is prohibited.  

* Minimum Trading Days: Fulfilling minimum trading days with small lot trades is not allowed.  

* Over Leveraging: Placing random large trades without a strategy will be flagged.  

* Profit Target: Achieving the profit target in one trade (or a few similar trades in one day) is prohibited.  

* Consistency Rules: To limit gambling practices, consistency rules may be applied, including:  

* Requirement to use Stop Losses.

* Limit on maximum risk per trade, per account, or per day.  
* Capping maximum daily profit.  
* Capping maximum daily loss.  
* Reducing leverage.  
* Setting maximum daily lot exposure.  
* Restricting trading during news.

* Copy Trading: Allowed,you can copy your own trades from your own accounts - if your master account is somewhere else than on Fintokei, we might ask you to prove ownership of said account. Copying from third parties is prohibited.

* EAs: allowed , but prohibited for 3rd party trade copying, automated evaluations, exploiting inefficiencies, martingale, scalping, arbitrage, or hedging.

* News Trading: Allowed

* Min trading days: 0 for Swift trader,3 profitable days for Start trader and proTrader

* Inactivity: 30 days

* There are limits for max. order size per trade:
FX - 100 lots
Gold, Silver, Oil - 100 lots
XPD, XPT, NGAS - 20 lots
CFD Indices - 20 lots