Prop Firm Rules

In the prop trading industry, rules can vary significantly from one firm to another, depending on their risk management policies.

While there are some well-known common rules, such as restrictions on the use of Expert Advisors (EAs), High-Frequency Trading (HFT), latency arbitrage, and any trading activity that exploits platform inefficiencies, there are also firm-specific rules that traders need to consider.

Through extensive research into the terms and conditions of all listed prop trading firms, we have identified some major key rules that you should be aware of before joining any of these funded programs.
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November 17, 2024

· High Stakes Program: Minimumof 3 profitable days, a profitable day is a day on which the closed positionsmade a positive profit of at least 0.5% of the initial balance.

Prohibited practices:

· One sided-bets which refer to a trading strategy where the user takes consistently 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.

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  • News trading is prohibited for funded traders(Non swing accout)
  • Holding trades over weekend is prohibited for funded traders(Non-swaing account)
  • 400k Max capital per strategy per person hence  If we find identical trading strategies across different accounts with more than $400,000 in allocated capital, we may suspend those accounts as per our agreement.
  • Your account should not be traded by any 3rd party.
  • Opening either significantly larger/smaller  position sizes or a substantially different number of positions compared to the customer’s other trades is prohibited,and the Provider reserves the right to determine, at its discretion, whether certain trades, practices, strategies, or situations are considered Forbidden Trading Practices.
  • Opening multiple profile accounts is prohibited.
FTMO
Funding Pips
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  • Excessive Risk taking is not Allowed, Gambling, Toxic trading flow one side betting.
  • Your biggest loss should not exceed 3% of the master account size only.
  • Profit made from trade closed within 1min of opening will not be counted on the master account only.
  • After getting 16 payouts with a top profit split of 40% traders can unlock an elite level with added benefits "Hot-Seat".
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FundedNext
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  • Minimum Trading Days: Traders are required to execute a minimum of 5 individual trades on 5 separate days throughout the Challenge.
  • Overtrading /Hyperactivity is prohibited (Hyperactivity can be defined as having 200 trades or 2,000 server messages in a single day.
  • Use of any EA, BOT, or FIX API connections is strictly prohibited on the cTrader platform.
  • Copying trades from accounts not owned by the same individual is prohibited.
  • Holding high volume positions for a very short time frame is prohibited.
  • One-sided Betting and Grid trading are prohibited.
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  • Taking more than 50% of your trades in 1 min holding time is not allowed and it's regarded as gambling.
  • Opening 5 positions in a losing trade, encompassing both entry and subsequent positions is not allowed.
Maven
Alpha Capital Group
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  • Average Trade Duration: Traders must ensure that the average duration of all their trades exceeds 2minutes.                                                                                                                                                                       
  • News Trading on Qualified Analyst Accounts: Allowed only for Swing accounts. For Alpha Pro accounts, trading around high-impact news is restricted to 2 minutes before or after the news release. For Alpha One accounts, trading around high-impact news is restricted to 5 minutes before or after the news release.                                                                                             
  • 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" trades or gambling strategies are not allowed.
  • Account Strategy Limit: A $300,000 limit applies per strategy.
  • Consistency Rule for Alpha One Accounts: A 50% Daily Consistency Rule applies, and a minimum of 2% of gross profits must be maintained in the account balance.
  • 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.
  • Weekend Holding: During the Evaluation phase, weekend holding is allowed in all programs. However, once funded as a "Qualified Analyst," weekend holding is allowed only in the Alpha Swing and Alpha One programs.
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    My Funded FX
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    · News trading: Permitted during the Challenge Phase. In live simulated accounts, News trading is allowed with restrictions: 3 minutes before and after a red folder news event.

    · Expert Advisors & Bots: Allowed only on cTrader platform.

    · Copy trading via platforms that require API access is no longer permitted. Traders must manually copy their trades, with the exception of cTrader platform. 

    · Simulated trading prohibited strategies: Exploiting service errors, such as price display errors or delayed updates, is not allowed.

    · Minimum Profitable Days: A Profitable Day is defined as a day where the closed positions generate a positive profit of at least 0.5% of the initial balance. Traders are required to have a minimum of 3 Profitable Days to pass. This requirement only applies to the 1-step, 2-step, and 2-step max evaluation phases and does not apply to live simulated accounts.

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    E8 Markets
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    · Risking your entire account balance on a single trade is not permitted. Excessively risky trading styles violate our terms and will result in account termination with a full refund.

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

    · In Evaluation phase, Copying trades—manually or via EAs—from one account to another, including from a master account to an evaluation account, is prohibited.

    · Trades Duration: You cannot hold more than 50% of your trades for under one minute.

    · 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.

    E8 Markets
    Funding Traders
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    Right of Refusal

    • The company has the right to end the contract with Funding Traders customer during evaluation phase ,if he company suspect or note excessive risk on the part of the trader, the company will ask for a interview to clarify theconcern with the trader, if there is no resolution the compny reservses the right to terminate the contract immediately.

    Protection of Capital

    • If the firm notice  you trading in a certain way that can't be replicated in a live condition, The firm reserves the right to terminate your contract.

    Consistent Strategy

    • The firm expect you to be consistent and responsible all through the trading period, if the firms notice unusual trading pattern they reserve the right to terminate your contract.
    Funding Traders
    Goat Funded Trader
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    Prohibited Trading Practice:

    • Trading in a way that jeopardizes the relationship GOATFUNDEDTRADER has with a broker or may result in the canceling of trades.
    • Any Trading Style that we deem too risky will be breached and refunded in full.
    • Utilize one strategy to pass an assessment , then use another strategy to trade the simulated funded account.
    • Duplicating trades and trade ideas on multiple evaluation accounts is not allowed.

    Gambling: GFT defines gambling as:

    • Taking more than 50% of your trades in 1 min holding time.
    • Opening 5 positions in a losing trade, encompassing both entry and subsequent positions.  
    • Opening one trade and adding subsequent positions to the same trade/instrument traded without making previous positions "risk free" by moving stop loss to breakeven, holding all the positions together until you pass/fail, without any other trade on the account.( This type of trading is allowed on the Swing plus challenge)
    • Traders that have been tagged as gamblers are not outrightly banned on the platforms, they are allowed a free retry or getting a full refund.
    • Executing large volume trades without a clear or logical trading strategy is regarded as an abuse of the trading environment.
    • Account engaging in consistent, high volume trades without a strategy may be flagged
    • In severe cases accounts engaging in the above will be terminated.

    Leverage Reduction Policy: Traders with High risk exposure will be subjected to this policy, engaging in risky trading patterns, having consistent and substantial losses will lead to potential leverage reduction as determined by GoatFundedTrader risk Team.

    • It takes a period of 60 days with improved risk management before your account can be considered for leverage restoration after initial reduction.
    • Traders with Initial leverage of 1:100 ( Classic 2 steps and No time limit 2 steps challenges) will be restricted to a maximum of leverage of 1:30.
    • Traders with Initial leverage of 1:50 ( GOAT challenges) will be restricted to a maximum of leverage of 1:20.
    • Traders with Initial leverage of 1:30 ( 1 STEP challenges) will be restricted to a maximum of leverage of 1:10.
    • This policy can be applied at either evaluation phase or funded phase.
    • Traders' accounts can be breached if risk exposure is still high after leverage reduction.

    You are prohibited from trading with multiple accounts of the same size to exploit market conditions or the prop firm. The firm reserves the right to determine whether trading with multiple accounts of the same size is allowed and may breach and refund some of your accounts if they do not align with our risk appetite.

    Inactivity rule: If your account is inactive for 45 days, it will be breached on both evaluation and funded stage. If you don't login into your account for 30days it will be automatically deleted.

    There is a strict policy against misinformation against the firm which will led to out right termination and ban from using the firm if found culpable.

    Goat Funded Trader
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    • Opening multiple profile accounts is prohibited.
    • You have to pass KYC with FXIFY and their payment provider(Rise) to be onboarded.
    • When you request a withdrawal on 1 phase accounts the drawdown locks in at your initial starting balance.e.gYou start out with a 100k account. Your Daily drawdown is 5% and your Max Trailing is 6%. Your Daily drawdown level is $95,000 and your Max trailing is $94,000. Let’s say you make $6,000 profit. You request a withdrawal of $6,000. You will have failed your account because you left no buffer and your account has reached Max Drawdown. Please note we will still issue the full withdrawal however you will forfeit the account.
    • If multiple users are attached to the same CID, this could raise concerns for us related to prohibited trading activity/account management/KYC issues.
    • It is prohibited to trade on two challange accounts of the same size at one time.
    FXIFY
    AquaFunded
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    · 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: Allowed with restriction: 5 minutes prior or after to high-impact news

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

    Prohibited practices:

    · All or nothing: this refers to a trading strategy where a trader aims to either achieve full profits or incur total losses.

    · 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.

    AquaFunded
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    • Consistency rule
      • On combine accounts your profits should not exceed 50% of your profit target.
    • On Simulated 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 first payout.
    • 5 winning days of $200 minimum to Qualify for Payouts.
    Topstep
    Instant Funding
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    • Restriction on unethical trading practices, such as latency arbitrage, account arbitrage, tick scalping or any other forms of cheating.
    • For the Instant Funding, The program makes use of a smart drawdown, The starting drawdown is -10% which remains the same till you hit a 5% profit, Once you hit a 5% profit, your Drawdown gets locked at -5% and this doesn't change again.  "This applies only to the Instant Funding plan."
    • To request for withdrawal you need to have 5% profit, Standard withdraw is 2 weeks after the placement of first trade unless you added a 5 days payout add-on during purchase, subsequent withdrawals is 7 days after the placement of first trade.    The minimum amount for withdrawal is 25$. If you choose to scale up you need to have hit 10% profit target , The system will utilize 5% of the balance to upgrade you. "This applies only to the Instant Funding plan."
    Instant Funding
    Quant Tekel (formerly Ascendx)
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    All of Nothing

    • This refers to a trading strategy where a trader aims to either achieve full profits or incur total losses.

    For Simulated Funded Traders

    • Open Positions: Traders are allowed to hold a maximum of three open positions on the same instrument at any given time. Increasing the size of an existing position will be considered as opening a new position.

    Position Management

    • Traders are prohibited from manually closing a trade or adjusting the stop-loss (SL) or take-profit (TP) after the first 15 seconds or before the initial 2 minutes have elapsed. Doing so will result in a soft breach, with two soft breaches escalating to a hard breach.

    Minimum trade duration : All trades must be held for a minimum of 2 minutes, Exceptions: Trades that are automatically closed by Stop-Loss (SL) or Take-Profit (TP)  before reaching 2 minutes are permitted.

    Quant Tekel (formerly Ascendx)
    Blue Guardian
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    Prohibited practices:

    · Prohibition on all strategies that take advantage of unrealistic market fills and abusing the demo environment inefficiencies.

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

    · 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.

    · 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.

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

    Blue Guardian
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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.

    CFT
    Funded Trading Plus
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    • 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.
    Funded Trading Plus
    For Traders
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  • Holding trades over the weekend is allowed at all stages.
  • News Trading is allowed on all Challenge accounts and on the For Traders PRO account.
  • All Challenges require a minimum of 3 profitable days.
  • All Challenges are customizable—you can choose your Profit Target, Profit Split, Drawdowns, and Bonuses to make your Challenge cheaper.
  • 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. (This rule does not apply to Challenge PRO.)
  • 70% of the profit target should not come from a single trade.
  • Forbidden  Practices:
    • Over-Leveraging: Using excessive leverage without a systematic approach or risk management strategy.
    • One-Sided Betting.
    • Account Rolling: Repeatedly starting new trading challenges with a high-risk approach, disregarding long-term strategy.
    • Bots, HFT, Hedging, Gambling, and Arbitrage trading.
    • Inactivity.
    • Operating your account by a third party.
    2-Step Account PRO:
    • No daily drawdown on Challenges.
    • News Trading is allowed at all stages.
    • No margin restrictions at all stages.

    For Traders
    Apex Trader Funding
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    ·  News Trading, Bots, and Automated Strategies are allowed in PA accounts.

    ·  Contract Scaling Rules: Traders can trade half contracts until the trailing threshold is reached, after that they can trade the full contract size.

    ·  Risk Management Guidelines: 5:1 risk-to-reward ratio is now allowed (previously 4:1).

    ·  Consistency Rule (30%): Trades with unrealized losses exceeding 30% of total profits may result in the forfeiture of profits from that trade. Once traders double their safety net, this limit can be increased to 50%.

    ·  DCA Abuse: Using Dollar Cost Averaging(DCA) across multiple instruments (NQ, ES, YM) simultaneously is not allowed.

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

    ·  Treasury Bond Abuse: Exploiting one-tick advantageous fills in treasury bonds is not permitted.

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    Trade The Pool
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    Profitable Position – only applies for evaluation

    • The trader’s best position cannot have more than 30% of the total profit target.

    60 Seconds Rule

    • The difference between every buy-sell order and vice versa should have a range of at least 60 seconds. (For Day Trading program)

    The 10 Cents Rule

    • All profitable positions must be at least 10 cents per share in profit. Example: Buy at $50.10, sell at $50.20 (at least)

    Halt Trading

    • Trading is not allowed on a symbol that has made an 8% move within 4 trading minutes. (An automatic halt will take place after the asset moved 10% within 5 minutes) If a halt has occurred, once trading is resumed, a trader must wait 1 minute before opening a new trade/position.

    Minimum Volume

    • During pre/after market hours – a trader will be able to open a new position / add to an existence position only if the number of shares that have been traded on that day is more than 20,000 shares.
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    · 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.

    Breakout
    My Funded Futures
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    · The Consistency Rule:

    Starter: 40% rule only exists in Simulated Funded phase, the profits made on one trading day should not exceed 40% of your overall profits per payout cycle.

    Starter Plus: 50% consistency only during evaluation.

    · Payout cap: Starter /Starter Plus for the first 60 days, no payout can exceed the dollar value of your max drawdown based on your starting balance. After the first 60 days,that account is eligible for uncapped payouts.

    Starter/ Starter Plus: 5 winning days to qualify for payouts.

    Expert: 14Days

    · Micro scalping is not allowed: trades opened and closed within 15 seconds.

    My Funded Futures
    City Traders Imperium
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    · Position management: Traders are required to always use a stop-loss on every position as soon as possible within a 1-minute window; this constitutes a soft breach if neglected.

    · News Bracketing Strategy: The bracketing strategy involves placing buy and sell pending orders around high-impact news events above and below the market price, this is prohibited.

    · Gambling rule: Traders are prohibited from 'gambling to pass,' which involves taking excessively high-risk trades or maxing out leverage to pass challenges quickly.

    · Churning of Accounts: Churning of accounts is prohibited it involves clients buying multiple accounts and trading them with excessive risk, aiming to quickly hit profit targets without considering risk management or demonstrating consistent trading performance.

    · Multi-Account Reverse: Trading it involves a trader using multiple accounts to take opposite positions on the same asset, effectively hedging their risk and manipulating outcomes, this is prohibited.

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    BrightFunded
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    · 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.

    BrightFunded
    Traders Launch
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    The Consistency Rule 40%

    • Profits from one single trading day should not exceed 40% of the profit target on challenge.

    Minimum Trading Days

    • You must complete 3 minimum trading days, only during the evaluation stage.
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    Ment Funding
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    • Using one strategy to pass the assessment and another strategy to trade the funded stage is not allowed.
    • Excessive risk taking is not Allowed
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    Elite Trader Funding
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    · Consistency rules for withdrawal: At the time of any payout request, the Funded account's most profitable active trading day cannot exceed 40% of the total accumulated profit, including withdrawals. (This policy is not applicable to accounts purchased or activated on or after August 1, 2024.*)

    · Micro Trading is not allowed, placing trades with minimum risk to meet withdrawal criteria.

    · All Elite Sim-Funded traders must execute at least one trade per calendar week. If you are unable to trade in a given week, must inform ETF’s customer service team.

    · All Elite Sim-Funded traders must actively trade the required number of Active Trading days per payout cycle and maintain consistent trading behavior. If an Elite Sim-Funded trader's payout request is denied and/or delayed during an audit three times due to non-compliance, itwill result in account closure.

    · The use of IP masking technologies (e.g., VPNs,VPS, etc.) is prohibited.

    · Self-hedging is not allowed. Only one single account per household is permitted.

    · Flatten Trades: Elite Sim-Funded traders must close all positions 1 minute before the market closes. Different instruments have different market closing times. This rule does not apply to Elite Diamond Hands.

    · Maintain Proper Risk Management: If a trader's account increases by 20% or more and then incurs a loss exceeding 50% of that gain in one day, the account will be deemed invalid for continued participation in the Elite Sim program and in the Live elite program. This decision will be made by the risk team during audits or payout requests, due to the increased risk associated with such significant losses.

    Subscription Stays Active After Elite Sim-Funded Account Failure: If a trader's Elite Sim-Funded account goes into a failed state, the subscription will remain active since the firm allow Elite Sim-Funded accounts to be reset once at cost. Therefore, if traders do not wish to reset their Elite Sim-Funded account, they must cancel their subscription to prevent future billing.

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    Alpha Futures
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    Consistency rule: 50% of the profits from one single trading day cannot be larger than 50% of the profit target on challenge.

    40% Consistency Rule on Qualified trader.

    No minimum trading days during Evaluation and Qualified Trader.

    Alpha Futures
    Earn2Trade
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    November 16, 2024

    · 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%).

    Earn2Trade
    Finotive Funding
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    November 17, 2024

    · All FX Pairs Now in the Same Instrument Class: If you trade any FX pair during the challenge phase,you are now allowed to trade all FX pairs : Majors, Minors, and Exotics once funded.

    · 10% Tolerance for Risk/Volume Increases: You can now increase your risk/volume by up to 10% once funded.

    · Using an EA with a hidden stop loss may lead to a breach of your account.

    · The Stop Loss Rule requires customers to use a stop loss on all positions at all times. Newly opened positions have a 120-second grace period to set an appropriate stop loss. (For Instant accounts)

    · Risk limits: You are not allowed to use more than 50% of your daily drawdown limit on open trades at any given time.

    (For instant funding accounts)

    · The Gambling Rule: Prohibits gambling or all-or-nothing behavior, including revenge trading, over-leveraging, and over-exposure. Violating this rule may result in account termination.

    · Your payment method must match your KYC and withdrawal details.

    Quarterly Profit Target for pro accounts: In Funded Status, customers are obligated to achieve a cumulative virtual profit of 5% per quarter. Since customers can transition to Funded Status at any point during the year based on the completion of Challenge phases, 'Quarters' will be defined as 90-day periods starting from the date the customer initiates their first trade in Funded Status.

    The Quarterly Profit Target encompasses all virtual profits, even those requested for pay-outs or scaling by the customer. Failure to meet this target will lead to the account being downgraded to a standard, funded challenge account of equivalent type (ie. a 200k 2-Step Pro account would be downgraded to a funded 200k 2-Step Challenge account), losing all pro benefits including Salary, reduced comms etc.

    Finotive Funding
    The Trading Pit
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    CFD/ Futures Programs

    • Achieving the profit target in one trade. Opening substantially larger position sizes relative to your other trades. Opening a substantially smaller or larger number of positions relative to your other trades. Gambling and Toxic trading behaviors: (e.g. overleveraging, overexposure, one-sided bets, account rolling).

    Excessive or Unrealistic Trading Volume

    • Engaging in an excessive or unrealistic number of lots/contracts traded within a single day is prohibited.

    Lot Size Manipulation

    • Traders are prohibited from using significantly smaller lot sizes to reach profit targets after executing one large trade, in an attempt to fulfill minimum trading day requirements.
    The Trading Pit
    Lark Funding
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    • Over-risking to the point whereby you can breach drawdown limit in a single trade is prohibited, this type of trading is all or nothing kind of mentality which is not allowed.
    • A max daily gain of 10,000$ on both evaluation phases and funded phase. Your total profit at the end of the day( 5PM EST)  must not exceed the 10,000 dollars daily gain, irrespective of the trading strategy and how long you must have held the trade.
    • In a Simulated Funded Account:
      • Any trade that exceeds the $10,000 threshold will not be included in your payout request.
      • 3 violations will result in an immediate account breach with no payout.
    Lark Funding
    Audacity Capital
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    November 17, 2024

    · 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.

    Audacity Capital
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    November 17, 2024

    · 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. Micro trading is not allowed.

    · Expert advisor: 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 shutdown, 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 delay in their updates.

    · Trading excessive or unrealistic number of contracts in the day is not allowed.

    TradeDay
    Blueberry Funded
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    November 17, 2024
    • News Trading policy restricts trading during significant economic news releases to prevent excessive market volatility and ensure a fair trading environment for all clients. The trader must refrain from opening or closing trades 10 minutes before and 10 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.
    • No excessive scalping - Defined as Holding 50% or more of your trades for less thana minute.
    • No Grid Trading - Placing multiple trades at predetermined intervals to create a grid-like structure, with no clear risk management strategy.
    • No “All In” Trades - Placing a trade in one direction with no risk management (i.e., no stop-loss), where the trade will either pass or fail the challenge in a single attempt.
    • 150% Margin Limit Rule: Ensure your margin level stays above 150% to avoid a margin breach.
    Blueberry Funded
    Last updated on: 
    November 17, 2024

    The Consistency Rule

    • Profits in one trading day should not exceed 45% of your total profits. The Consistency Rule applies to both Phases of Day Trading and Swing challenge types and only Phase of Single Phase Challenge.

    News Trading

    • Trading is restricted within the 2-minute window before and after a high-impact news event.
    Traddoo
    Nordic Funder
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    Last updated on: 
    November 17, 2024

    · Concentrated Strategies: Strategies must be diversified. Trading a single asset to pass the challenge is not allowed. Accounts that have reached the target profit by trading a single symbol may got rejected.

    · 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.

    · Nordic Funder accounts require stop losses. Opening a position without a stop loss will result in the position being automatically closed.

    Nordic Funder
    OANDA Prop Trader
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    Last updated on: 
    November 15, 2024

    Daily Max Profit (Consistency trading rule): Max Profit or Consistency Rules during the 2 trade assessment phases (Challenges). This rule does not apply once a Prop Trading account is allocated. During the 2 assessment phases: Phase 1: 5% daily max profit Phase 2: 2% daily max profit

    News Trading: Restriction on executing any new trades or closing existing trades within a 6-minute window: 3 minutes before and 3 minutes after the release of major news announcements.

    EAs, scripts, and indicators are allowed. However, Oanda Prop Trader does not allow copy trading, nor EAs that engage in price or latency arbitrage techniques and other trading behaviors that take advantage of inefficiencies in the platform.

    OANDA Prop Trader
    Last updated on: 
    November 17, 2024

    Minimum of 3 Days Objective

    • Fulfilling minimum trading day with small lots trade is not allowed.

    Over Leveraging

    • Placing random large trades, without having a pattern or strategy behind them, or without being able to explain it to us, it will be flagged.

    Achieving the Profit Target In One Trade

    • (Or in a few similar trades on the same instrument within one day) is prohibited.

    Consistency Rules - As part of restricting the gambling practices, we could apply any of the following consistency rules on your existing and/or the upgraded trading account(s):

    • Require you to use Stop Losses and limit your maximum risk per trade, per account or per day
    • Cap your maximum daily profit
    • Cap your maximum daily loss
    • Reduce leverage
    • Set your maximum daily lot exposure
    • Restrict trading during news
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    FundedNext
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    Changed on:
    November 13, 2024

    Upcoming Changes:

  • Commission Structure Update: Forex and Commodity commissions will now be charged upfront at entry starting November 18, 2024. "Only for MetaTrader 5 servers"
  • Symbol Delisting: BCHUSD, USDTRY, EURTRY, and USDPLN will be removed from all trading platforms due to liquidity issues.
  • FundedNext
    Funding Pips
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    Changed on:
    November 12, 2024

    New Trading Evaluation Launched: Introducing the new 2-step FundingPips Plus with New key Features:

    • Profit Split: 80%
    • Payout Frequency: Every 5 Days
    • No Consistency Rule
    Funding Pips
    Funding Pips
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    Changed on:
    November 11, 2024

    Crypto Payout Update: The $500 limit on crypto rewards has been removed; you can now request your payout via crypto without any limit.

    Funding Pips
    Alpha Capital Group
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    Changed on:
    November 8, 2024

    Added new trading plan, the Alpha One Plan, has been launched with the following key features:

    • Phase 1 Profit Target: 10%
    • Maximum Drawdown: 6%, trailing based on the high water mark
    • Maximum Daily Drawdown: 4%, "trailing per highest end-of-day balance or equity, which one is greater"
    • Minimum Trading Days: 1 Day

    Alpha Capital Group
    Changed on:
    November 7, 2024

    New Trading Evaluation Launched: introduce the Ascend Evaluation, packed with new key features:

    • Instant payouts upon passing stages 1 and 2
    • Unlimited maximum allocation
    • No minimum trading days required

    CFT
    Goat Funded Trader
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    Changed on:
    November 6, 2024

    Goat Funded Trader has launched a new prop trading firm for futures traders, Goat Funded Futures.

    Goat Funded Trader
    Alpha Futures
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    Changed on:
    October 29, 2024

    Added a new Trading Plan: Advanced plan has been launched offering new features:

  • Consistency rule removed on Qualified accounts
  • News Trading allowed
  • Scaling plan removed
  • Weekly payouts
  • Alpha Futures
    My Funded Futures
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    Changed on:
    October 22, 2024

    Introducing a new trading plan: The Milestone plan has been added to the available trading plans.

    My Funded Futures
    Apex Trader Funding
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    Changed on:
    October 22, 2024

    APEX 3.0 Update – PA Trading Rules

    These new rules apply only to PA Accounts (NOT Evaluation Accounts):

    • Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) rule has been removed – Traders can now add to losing positions without any restrictions.
    • Restrictions on Bracket Breakout Strategies have been removed.
    • News Trading, Bots, and Automated Strategies are allowed in PA accounts.
    • Contract Scaling Rules: Traders can trade half contracts until the trailing threshold is reached, after that they can trade the full contract size.
    • Risk Management Guidelines: 5:1 risk-to-reward ratio is now allowed (previously 4:1).
    • Consistency Rule (30%): Trades with unrealized losses exceeding 30% of total profits may result in the forfeiture of profits from that trade. Once traders double their safety net, this limit can be increased to 50%.
    Apex Trader Funding
    Goat Funded Trader
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    Changed on:
    October 21, 2024

    New platform: Goat Funded Trader has added cTrader to their offered platforms.

    Goat Funded Trader
    My Funded FX
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    Changed on:
    October 17, 2024

    Copy trading rule updates: Copy trading via platforms that require API access is no longer permitted. Traders must manually copy their trades, with the exception of cTrader platform. 

    My Funded FX
    Finotive Funding
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    Changed on:
    October 15, 2024

    Risk Rules Update:

    • 10% Tolerance for Risk/Volume Increases: You can now increase your risk/volume by up to 10% once funded.
    • All FX Pairs Now in the Same Instrument Class: If you trade any FX pair during the challenge phase, you are now allowed to trade all FX pairs — Majors, Minors, and Exotics — once funded.
    Finotive Funding
    Apex Trader Funding
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    Changed on:
    October 14, 2024
  • Payout Cycle Update: Starting November 1st, 2024, traders can request a payout after completing 8 Trading Days.
  • Trading Rules Update: Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA) is now allowed within risk management limits.
  • Apex Trader Funding
    Alpha Capital Group
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    Changed on:
    October 8, 2024

    Performance Bonus Update: The performance bonus has been changed to be awarded from the fourth successful payout instead of the first. The bonus amounts to 0.25% of the initial account size.

    Alpha Capital Group
    Changed on:
    October 7, 2024

    FXIFY: New Updates for All Programs

    • Introduced new account size: 5K Accounts are now available.
    • Increased the Default Profit Split on challenges from 75% to 80%.
    • Adjusted the Daily Drawdown levels on challenges:
      1. 1 Phase: Adjusted to 3%
      2. 2 Phase: Adjusted to 4%
      3. 3 Phase: Unchanged at 5%

    These changes applies to all new purchases from 7th Oct,2024.

    FXIFY
    My Funded Futures
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    Changed on:
    October 1, 2024

    New trading plan:  Introducing the new plan Starter Plus.

    My Funded Futures
    Trade The Pool
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    Changed on:
    September 22, 2024

    Introducing the New Limited Edition Mini BP Program, with Enhanced Features:

    • Reduced Profit Target: $1,350 (previously $1,800)
    • Upgraded Profit Split: 70/30 (up from 50/50)
    • Reduced Minimum Trades: Now just 10 (down from 20)

    Limited time offer.

    Trade The Pool
    Changed on:
    September 18, 2024

    Relaunched new trading program:  Instant Funding program has now been added to the available trading programs.

    CFT
    Blue Guardian
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    Changed on:
    September 15, 2024
    • A minimum trading period of 3 days has been added across all phases. Traders must achieve at least 0.5% profit on each of these days. These days do not need to be consecutive—any day with at least 0.5% profit will count toward the 3-day minimum trading period
    Blue Guardian
    Quant Tekel (formerly Ascendx)
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    Changed on:
    September 15, 2024

    Migration and Rebranding: Ascendx Capital has undergone a migration and rebranding process and is now operating under the name Quant Tekel, under a licensed broker. Along with the name change, Quant Tekel is introducing a new trading models.

    For prop firm traders, they are launching the following features:

    • 1-Step and 2-Step Challenges
    • Improved In-House Technology
    • MT5, DX-Trade, cTrader, and TradeLocker
    • Competitions and a Leaderboard
    • A Loyalty Scheme
    • A Rewards Program

    Quant Tekel (formerly Ascendx)
    Goat Funded Trader
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    Changed on:
    September 12, 2024

    Reset challenge button: Goat Funded Trader now offers an option to reset the challenge with 20% off and unlimited resets.

    Goat Funded Trader
    For Traders
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    Changed on:
    September 9, 2024

    New trading platform:  Added cTrader to the trading platforms offered.

    For Traders
    Finotive Funding
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    Changed on:
    September 6, 2024

    New Account Sizes: Finotive Funding has introduced new account sizes, $75,000 account for Instant Accounts, $150,000 and $75,000 accounts for Challenge and Finotive Pro Accounts.

    Finotive Funding
    Funded Trading Plus
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    Changed on:
    September 3, 2024

    New trading platforms:  Added Platform 5 and Platform 4 to the trading platforms offered, note that these platforms are not available for U.S. traders.

    Funded Trading Plus
    Goat Funded Trader
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    Changed on:
    September 2, 2024

    New Trading challenge: Launched the new Instant Funding program.

    Goat Funded Trader
    Alpha Futures
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    Changed on:
    August 30, 2024

    New Payout Method: Rise has been added to the payout methods.

    Alpha Futures
    Alpha Capital Group
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    Changed on:
    August 26, 2024

    Qualified Account Minimum Trading Days Update: On a funded account, you are required to meet a minimum of 5 trading days. A trading day is defined as a day when a trade is executed with a lot size and hold time similar to your usual trades. For instance, if you typically trade 0.05 lots, then a trade with 0.02 lots would count. However, if you usually trade 20 lots, then a trade with 0.02 lots would not count. If you reduce your trade size to 5 lots, that would count, provided the trade duration is similar to your usual trades.

    Note: This requirement applies only to the first payout cycle on a funded account and does not result in a soft or hard breach.

    Alpha Capital Group
    Changed on:
    August 25, 2024

    Removed Daily Loss Limit on TopstepX:

    Starting from August 25th, new TopstepX accounts will no longer have a Daily Loss Limit. This change applies only to Trading Combines and Express Funded Accounts on the TopstepX platform.

    Topstep
    Goat Funded Trader
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    Changed on:
    August 21, 2024

    New payment method: Added PayPal to payment methods.

    Goat Funded Trader
    Alpha Capital Group
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    Changed on:
    August 21, 2024

    Alpha Pro Program Update: Holding trades over the weekend is now restricted on Pro qualified accounts.

    Holding trades over the weekend on funded Alpha Pro accounts will result in a soft breach, with profits being reversed.

    Pro qualified accounts are able to switch from Pro to Swing if traders wish to hold trades over the weekend.

    Alpha Capital Group
    Finotive Funding
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    Changed on:
    August 19, 2024

    New payment option for crypto: Added NOWPayments for crypto payment.

    Finotive Funding
    FundedNext
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    Changed on:
    August 19, 2024

    New payment option: Added  Apple Pay and Google Pay to payment options.

    FundedNext
    Elite Trader Funding
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    Changed on:
    August 19, 2024

    New  Feature:  add-on feature (Trade shield)

    If you reach the Daily Loss Limit on your account you will get soft breach. Your account will be prevented from placing any new trades until the start of the next trading day.

    Elite Trader Funding
    Changed on:
    August 18, 2024

    New trading platform: Added DX trade to the trading platforms offered.

    FXIFY
    Alpha Capital Group
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    Changed on:
    August 15, 2024

    New Trading program: 2- Step evaluation assessment, the Swing Plan.

    Alpha Capital Group
    Alpha Capital Group
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    Changed on:
    August 15, 2024

    Inactivity rule updated: All accounts in all stages are limited to a 30-day inactivity period.

    Alpha Capital Group
    Changed on:
    August 12, 2024

    MetaTrader platforms have ceased to be offered to US traders. All existing accounts will be migrated to the DX trade platform “ US Traders Only”

    FXIFY
    BrightFunded
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    Changed on:
    August 5, 2024

    Breach Rule Update: Negative Available Margin or Hedging Between Different Accounts,

    If your account is found with a Negative Available Margin or Hedging Between Different Accounts, you will receive a Soft Breach instead of a Hard Breach. Only the trades that caused the breach will be closed, enabling you to resume trading on the affected accounts without disruption.

    NOTE: If a Negative Available Margin is detected, the relevant account will always be subject to a Soft Breach. However, if Hedging Between Different Accounts is detected, a Soft Breach will be issued only once. After this initial Soft Breach, the relevant accounts will be subject to a Hard Breach.

    Effective Tuesday, August 13, 2024

    BrightFunded
    Goat Funded Trader
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    Changed on:
    August 5, 2024

    New Payout Cycle: Triple Payday

    Request a payout on the 5th, 15th, and 25th of each month.

    No Consistency Rule Requirements

    • First Payout: 65% Profit Share
    • Second Payout: 70% Profit Share
    • Third Payout and Beyond: 80% Profit Share

    You can select the triple payday schedule at checkout.

    Goat Funded Trader
    The Trading Pit
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    Changed on:
    August 2, 2024

    Launch of the new Futures program: Introducing the Futures Prime program.

    The Trading Pit
    FundedNext
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    Changed on:
    August 2, 2024

    New Payment Option for Nigerian: Naira is available as a local payment option for Nigerians.

    FundedNext
    Changed on:
    August 1, 2024

    New Platform Launched: Crypto Futures Trading is available, and accessible to traders in the United States.

    CFT
    My Funded Futures
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    Changed on:
    August 1, 2024

    New Data Feed & Platforms:  

    Removing  Rithmic and adding  Volumetrica Trading® Web Platform.

    New data feed, dxFeed.

    Simulated Funded Resets for Starter Accounts:  Introducing Sim Funded Resets for new starter accounts.

    If your account gets suspended after a payout, you can revive it for 1/3rd of the maximum payout cost. Only if you got a payout from you Sim Funded account.

    Reset Pricing:

    50k Reset: $450

    100k Reset: $800

    150k Reset: $1200

    My Funded Futures
    Funding Pips
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    Changed on:
    July 24, 2024

    New Trading Model: 2- Step evaluation model, FundingPipsX.

    Funding Pips
    For Traders
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    Changed on:
    July 22, 2024

    New platform: Added TradeLocker to the offered platforms.

    For Traders
    Quant Tekel (formerly Ascendx)
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    Changed on:
    July 22, 2024

    Maximum Risk and Gambling Rule: Applies to Simulated Funded Accounts, any breach of these rules will result in a breach of your account.

    • Maximum Risk: You cannot expose more than 3% of your account balance at any time.
    • All-or-Nothing Approach: The "all or nothing" approach is strictly banned.
    Quant Tekel (formerly Ascendx)
    Changed on:
    July 21, 2024

    New payment option: Added Paypal as a new payment option.

    The5%ers
    Quant Tekel (formerly Ascendx)
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    Changed on:
    July 21, 2024

    Minimum position holding time:  All trades must be held for at least 2 minutes from the time they are opened until they are closed only. < Applies only to funded accounts >

    0.01 Lot Size Trades/Minumum Trading Days: Allowing to complete 0.01 lot size trades to meet any minimum day requirements. < Applies only to funded accounts >

    Quant Tekel (formerly Ascendx)
    My Funded FX
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    Changed on:
    July 19, 2024

    Consistency Rule Update: The consistency rule is being removed for all accounts, both new and existing.

    Funded Account Payout Update: Funded account payout frequencies are returning to their previous schedules, as they were prior to the addition of the consistency rule.

    Leverage Adjustment Update: Leverages for challenge and funded accounts are being adjusted on all platforms and phases, across all brokers. The new leverages are set to 30:1 for Forex, 10:1 for indices and commodities, and 2:1 for crypto.

    My Funded FX
    Goat Funded Trader
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    Changed on:
    July 18, 2024

    MT4 removed from offered platforms: All existing MT4 accounts will be migrated to Match Trader.

    Goat Funded Trader
    Changed on:
    July 17, 2024

    New payout rule :

    1st payout available 1 day after getting funded.

    Subsequent payouts available every day.

    Applies to all accounts and all plans.

    Breakout
    Goat Funded Trader
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    Changed on:
    July 17, 2024

    New platform:  Added TradeLocker platform.

    Goat Funded Trader
    Quant Tekel (formerly Ascendx)
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    Changed on:
    July 16, 2024

    New Scaling Plan : When you achieve a 10% growth on your trading account at Ascendx Capital, you are eligible to request scaling.

    Profit Split and Scaling : At the point of payout, if you choose an 80% profit split, your account will scale by 10% of the original amount.

    Maximum Funding : At the discretion of the company, traders can scale their accounts up to $2,000,000 in funding.

    Quant Tekel (formerly Ascendx)
    The Trading Pit
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    Changed on:
    July 16, 2024

    New program launched:  Introducing the Prime Program.

    The Trading Pit
    Funding Pips
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    Changed on:
    July 11, 2024

    Gambling Behavior rule updated: Removed the 3% loss limit rule on all evaluations, your biggest loss in one trade should not exceed3% of the account size on the Master accounts only.

    High-Frequency Trading (HFT) & Tick Scalping: Profit from trades that are closed within 1 minute after opening will not be counted on Master accounts only.

    Funding Pips
    Quant Tekel (formerly Ascendx)
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    Changed on:
    July 11, 2024

    Accepting USA Traders.

    New Platform Added: DX trade.

    Max Allocation: $400K per Platform.

    Quant Tekel (formerly Ascendx)
    City Traders Imperium
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    Changed on:
    July 8, 2024

    Removed minimum trading days.

    Increased leverage on 1 Step programs.

    100% Profit share is now possible on all levels of the scaling plans.

    City Traders Imperium
    Goat Funded Trader
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    Changed on:
    July 8, 2024

    New account size: Introduces the 5K GOAT Challenge.

    Goat Funded Trader
    Instant Funding
    Go to Firm Page
    Changed on:
    July 8, 2024

    Allowing copy trading: Allowing to copy trade from your personal account with another prop firm, retail broker, or any external/internal source to your account with us.

    *Note that copy trading between accounts not owned by the same individual is not permitted.

    Instant Funding
    Changed on:
    July 8, 2024

    Removed the free trial offer.

    Traddoo
    Changed on:
    July 7, 2024

    Inactivity rule: 30 calendar days without making any transactions will result in your account being suspended.

    News Trading rule improvement: No more termination- Execution orders 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after a high impact news will only lead to a profit deduction, TP and SL can get triggered.

    High stakes reward: After completing Step 1, you'll receive a credit hub credit reward and a full refund upon passing all evaluation stages.

    Max accounts: Hyper growth: Maximum 4 accounts: 1:20k, 1:10k, 2:5k, High stakes: Maximum 3 accounts: 1:5k, 1:20k, 1: 60k/100k.

    The5%ers
    City Traders Imperium
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    Changed on:
    July 5, 2024

    New Compliance Updates: VPS and VPN new Rule:

    The VPS should be utilized solely to operate an Expert Adviser (EA). You are required to provide invoices confirming your subscription to the VPS service. Additionally, the EA deployed must be one for which you own the source code. Should you need to use the VPS for other purposes.

    The use of VPNs is now prohibited. The location of your trading activities must correspond with your proof of address to ensure transparency and verifiability in trading.

    https://citytradersimperium.kb.help/can-i-use-a-vps-or-vpn-for-my-ea-also-where-is-your-server-located/

    City Traders Imperium
    Goat Funded Trader
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    Changed on:
    July 4, 2024

    New payment method: KORA payment is now live: Traders from Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya can pay with their local currency at checkout.

    Goat Funded Trader
    My Funded FX
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    Changed on:
    July 3, 2024
    • 50% consistency rule: no more than 50% of your profits can be generated from a single trading day in the funded stage.
    • Payout Rule Update: All payouts 1st and ongoing will be made every 7 calendar days. for all EXISTING and NEW accounts for the 1-Step, 2-Step, and 2-Step Max programs.
      For 1-Step Max plans, all payout terms will be changed from every 7 calendar days to anytime payouts as long as the 50% rule is met.
    My Funded FX
    Blue Guardian
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    Changed on:
    July 3, 2024

    Removal of Gambling Rule: Any trading strategies that are deemed "All or nothing" has been removed for all challenge accounts and simulated funded accounts.

    Blue Guardian
    Goat Funded Trader
    Go to Firm Page
    Changed on:
    July 3, 2024

    New Challenge Release: New 2 Step Model: Swing Plus Challenge.

    Goat Funded Trader
    Funding Traders
    Go to Firm Page
    Changed on:
    July 2, 2024

    Offer: $5,000 Accounts, available only on DX Trade and C Trader.

    Funding Traders
    My Funded Futures
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    Changed on:
    July 1, 2024

    Announcing the New Starter Account updates

    My Funded Futures
    Funding Traders
    Go to Firm Page
    Changed on:
    July 1, 2024

    Adding Dx trade with platforms

    Funding Traders
    Finotive Funding
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    Changed on:
    June 30, 2024

    Added 140 new crypto instruments

    Finotive Funding
    Funding Pips
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    Changed on:
    June 30, 2024
    • Toxic Trading Flow: Reckless risk-taking, impulsive behavior, overtrading.
    • Gambling Behavior: Your biggest loss should not exceed 3% of the account size.
    • Splitting up a trade into multiple positions will be counted as one single trade.
    • Minimum trading days: minimum trading day of 3 trading days in all models, there are no minimum trading days on the master account.
    • Payout Cycle 2- Step Model: Tuesday Payday 60%,Bi-Weekly 80%, or Monthly, with a profit split up to 100%.
    Funding Pips
    Changed on:
    June 30, 2024

    Account Migration to New Hub, implemented upgraded tech infrastructure

    The5%ers
    AquaFunded
    Go to Firm Page
    Changed on:
    June 28, 2024

    Migration of all cTrader accounts to Platform 5

    AquaFunded
    Quant Tekel (formerly Ascendx)
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    Changed on:
    June 28, 2024

    News trading and lot size restrictions: 5 minutes before/after a high economic new release only for funded accounts.

    Lot Limits:

    • $200k: 80 lots
    • $100k: 40 lots
    • $50k: 20 lots    
    • $25k: 10 lots
    • $10k: 5 lots

    Note: Lot limits can be increased after 60 days and a successful withdrawal request, subject to a review and meeting with the compliance team.

    Layering: Maximum of 3 open positions on the same instrument will be allowed. First Breach: Exceeding this limit will result in a soft breach. Second Breach: A second soft breach will equate to a hard breach.

    Quant Tekel (formerly Ascendx)
    The Trading Pit
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    Changed on:
    June 28, 2024

    Futures markets data - CME L2 Add-On

    The Trading Pit
    Changed on:
    June 27, 2024

    14-day Free trial

    Traddoo
    Goat Funded Trader
    Go to Firm Page
    Changed on:
    June 27, 2024

    For Indian Traders, they accept IMPS (Immediate Payment Service) at checkout

    Goat Funded Trader
    My Funded FX
    Go to Firm Page
    Changed on:
    June 26, 2024

    Minimum Profitable Day: applies to 1-step, 2-step and 2-step max evaluation phases, 3 profitable days of at least 0.5% of your initial balance

    My Funded FX
    Funding Traders
    Go to Firm Page
    Changed on:
    June 20, 2024

    Introducing $500k Senior Trader Fast-Track Program (LIMITED TIME ONLY)

    Funding Traders
    Alpha Capital Group
    Go to Firm Page
    Changed on:
    June 20, 2024

    Announce the launch of Alpha Futures

    Alpha Capital Group
    Finotive Funding
    Go to Firm Page
    Changed on:
    June 20, 2024

    Latest advancements in Technology

    Finotive Funding
    Alpha Capital Group
    Go to Firm Page
    Changed on:
    June 17, 2024

    Now accepting american traders

    Alpha Capital Group
    Goat Funded Trader
    Go to Firm Page
    Changed on:
    June 13, 2024

    Adding MT4 with platforms

    Goat Funded Trader
    Blue Guardian
    Go to Firm Page
    Changed on:
    June 12, 2024

    Announce that traders from Pakistan and Vietnam have returned and are now able to purchase a challenge

    Blue Guardian
    Blue Guardian
    Go to Firm Page
    Changed on:
    June 7, 2024

    Announce the implementation of Platform 5 and Trade Locker

    Blue Guardian
    Goat Funded Trader
    Go to Firm Page
    Changed on:
    June 6, 2024

    "MTJ" Launching My Trading Journey “Trade copier tool and journaling”

    Goat Funded Trader
    Changed on:
    June 4, 2024

    FTMO now supports payments in the Nigerian Naira.

    FTMO
    Blue Guardian
    Go to Firm Page
    Changed on:
    June 3, 2024

    Upgrade the technology and trading platforms

    Blue Guardian
    Changed on:
    June 3, 2024

    Removing the Trader Bonus (the evaluation fee refund added to first payout).

    Breakout
    Goat Funded Trader
    Go to Firm Page
    Changed on:
    June 3, 2024

    Accepting Pakistani traders

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    May 31, 2024

    Adding Apple pay for payment

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    May 28, 2024

    Trade in up to five (5) Express Funded Accounts at once, increasing from 3 to 5 XFA’s

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    New Platforms : Added Platform 4 and Platform 5 to the offered platforms.

    Note: Platform 4/Platform 5 & CTrader are not available to US Customers.

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