Prop Firm Rules

Copy trading:

• Copy trading: Copy trading is only allowed between challenge accounts and between instant accounts up to $300,000 in allocation.

EA'S

• EAs are only available as an add on
• EA is only permitted for accounts sizes under $50,000
• 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.
• Using an EA or trading bot to pass the Challenge Account and then switching to manual trading in the FundedNext Account (or vice versa) is not allowed.
• There is a maximum allocation limit of $300,000 for each EA or trading bot's strategy.

News Trading

Allowed Without Restriction During Evaluation Stage

• Allowed with Restriction on Funded Stage and Instant Accounts (Trades Executed 5 Minutes Before and After a High Impact News Event Are Subject to a 40% News Profit Split Rule.)

Inactivity Rules

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

Drawdown Adjustment Rule for Instant Accounts:

• If your 6% trailing Max Drawdown resets to the initial balance after reaching a 6% or more profit, maintain a profit buffer to keep trading. Withdrawing all profits will result in account closure.
• Maximum Risk at a Time | Funded Accounts Only
• Funded accounts are expected to follow a 3% risk-per-trade guideline, where risk is the maximum potential loss on a trade based on stop loss placement, the maximum realized and unrealized (Floating) losses across all trades, calculated against the initial account balance.
• Breaking the guideline leads to 100% deduction of profit from those violating trades, second violation leads to 100% deduction of the profit generated from the violating trades. The account is then permanently reclassified to the following adjusted parameter, effective at the end of the trading day on which the violation is identified: Allowable cumulative risk is reduced to 1% at a given time.

Key rules

Quick strike:

• The FundedNext Quick Strike Parameter is a rule targeting rapid-duration trades closed in under 30 seconds; it is violated when these positions account for 30% or more of your total profits, resulting in a progression freeze for Challenge accounts, or 100% profit forfeiture and potential account termination for Funded accounts.
• You must use the same trading strategy and method (manual or EA) during both the Challenge and Funded Account. Switching between them is not allowed.
• Utilizing specific asset classes, symbol categories, specific margin or risk usages to pass the evaluation phase and then switching to entirely different asset classes or symbol categories and significantly increasing the margin utilization or risk usages in the FundedNext Account, is prohibited.
• Account rolling is strictly prohibited, buying multiple evaluations to sacrifice some while passing others is considered a high-risk, luck-based tactic that violates FundedNext’s principles of skill and responsible trading. Violations may lead to restrictions on new purchases or lifetime allocation limits.

One-sided Betting:

• One-Sided Betting is a gambling-like trading behavior where a trader takes concentrated directional exposure, opens multiple trades in the same direction, or enters reactive positions without sufficient consideration of market conditions, fundamental news, or technical analysis

Grid Trading:

• Grid trading is a strategy where a trader places multiple buy and sell orders at different price levels above and below the current market price. The goal is to profit from price fluctuations as the market moves up and down, hitting various price points.

Other prohibited trading strategies:

• https://help.fundednext.com/en/articles/8020351-what-are-the-restricted-prohibited-trading-strategies?q=risk

News Trading

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

Copy Trading

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

Expert Advisors

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

High Stakes Program:

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

High Stakes New and Classic Cross-program rules:

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

Prohibited Practices

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

Inactivity Rule

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

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

Prohibited trading strategies include:

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

• Latency trading

• Arbitrage trading

• High-frequency trading

• Reverse trading/group hedging

• Spamming the order book

• Group trading/signal following

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

VPN/VPS/IP rules:

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

News Trading on Qualified Analyst Accounts:

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

Copy Trading:

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

Expert Advisors:

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

Account rolling:

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

Qualified Analyst Allocation Rules:

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

Max Risk per Asset

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

Alpha Direct (all account sizes):

• 1%

Maximum lot allowed (Funded)

Alpha Swing:

• $5k = Max 1.25 lots

$10k = Max 2.5 lots

• $25k = Max 5 lots

$50k = Max 10 lots

• $100k = Max 20 lots

$200k = Max 40 lots

• $300k = Max 60 lots

Alpha Direct, Alpha One, and Alpha Pro:

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

GENERAL RULES

Minimum Trading Days

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

News Trading

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

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

Copy Trading

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

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

Expert Advisors (EAs)

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

30 Days Inactivity Rule

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

Overnight | Weekend Holding/Trading Crypto

• Allowed

Prohibited trading strategies and practices

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

IPs/VPN/VPS Rule

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

Max Position Size

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

Server Request Limitation

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

Risk Management

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

Hedging

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

Trade Duration

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

Risk Exposure Limitation

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

Other prohibited practices:

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

E8 Trader Stage Account Exceeds Profit Threshold

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

E8 Pro

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

EAs (Expert Advisors)

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

News Trading

• Allowed on E8 One evaluation stage, E8 Pro, E8 Signature.
• Not allowed in E8 One Funded stage 5 minutes before or after high-impact news.

E8 Signature:

• Overnight and weekend trading is not allowed.

Inactivity

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

Firm Rules

Leverage Update

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

Copy Trading

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

Expert Advisor (EA)

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

Inactivity Rule

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

Max Lot Limit Per Click

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

Forbidden Strategies

• Gap trading, high frequency trading, server spamming, latency arbitrage, hedging, long-short arbitrage, reverse arbitrage, server execution, toxic trading flow, tick scalping, churning & burning and opposite account trading are prohibited
• Violations may result in:
  • Reducing leverage
  • Limiting the number of trades per day
  • Lot size limit per day
  • Lower daily/maximum loss limit (limiting risk per trade)
  • Imposing a 1% risk limit rule
  • Being banned from the firm
• Forbidden strategies explained: https://help.fundingpips.com/en/articles/8536000-what-are-the-forbidden-strategies

IP / VPN / VPS / ISP & Multiple Devices Policy

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

FundingPips Zero

Minimum Profitable Days

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

Biggest Loss Cannot Exceed Biggest Win

• Your biggest loss on the account must not exceed your biggest win
• Keep trading until your biggest loss no longer exceeds your biggest win

Maximum Risk Limit

• Floating profit and loss (PnL) must not exceed -1% of the account size
• Violation is a Hard Breach

News Trading

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

Overnight Holding

• Allowed

Weekend Holding | Crypto Trading on Weekends

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

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

Minimum Trading Days

• 1-Step Flex

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

• 2-Step Standard

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

• 2-Step Pro

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

• 2-Step Flex

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

News trading

Evaluation

• Allowed

Funded

• Executing orders 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after high impact news events, and 10 minutes before / 10 minutes after high impact Speeches on affected instruments is prohibited Any profits made within this window will be voided.
• Trades Opened More Than 5 Hours Before the News: Profits will count if closed within the restricted windows.

Overnight & Weekend Holding
Evaluation:

• Allowed

Funded:

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

Crypto Trading on Weekends

• Not Allowed

News Trading:

• Allowed with restriction: 5 minutes prior to and after a high-impact (red folder) news event on Instant Standard and Funded accounts.
• News trading is allowed without restriction on Challenge accounts.

Inactivity rule:

• All accounts, will be deactivated after 30 days of inactivity.

Gambling Rule:

• All or nothing or gambling-style behavior is prohibited, gambling is classified as any trading activity where margin usage exceeds 80% in a single trade

Minimum holding time:

• The minimum holding time is 2 minutes. If a trade is closed in under 2 minutes, it may be flagged for tick scalping, which is against the trading rules.

Drawdown Adjustment Rule for 1-step standard, 1-step nano and Instant accounts:

• If your X% trailing Max Drawdown resets to the initial balance after reaching a X% profit, maintain a profit buffer of 1% to keep trading. Withdrawing all profits will result in account closure.

Guardian Shield:

• In the funded stage, if your open trades incur a loss of 1% of the initial balance on Instant Accounts or 2% on the 1-Step standard and 2-Step standard, Guardian Shield may auto-close them, this is a soft breach; after the 1st breach, profit split drops to 50% and after the 2nd, the account is breached.

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.

Copy Trading: Allowed, personal accounts only:

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

Inactivity rule:

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

Maximum Loss Per Trade Policy:

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

• For Instant Funding Standard model:

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

• First Violation:

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

• Second Violation:

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

• Third Violation:

  • Your funded account will be permanently breached.

• For Instant Flex:

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

• Consequences for exceeding the limit:

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

News Trading:

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

Wave Stop

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

All or Nothing:

• All or nothing practices are prohibited.

Margin Limit:

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

Choice of strategy:

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

Copy Trading:

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

Expert Advisors:

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

Max allocation

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

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

Reverse trading rule

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

Prohibited

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

Gambling rule

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

Bybit Platform Rules

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

GENERAL RULES

News Trading Rule

• Evaluation: Allowed
• Funded/Instant Funding: Prohobited to execute(pending orders including; market orders, stop loss or take profit orders) or close any trade within 5 minutes before and after high impact news event on affected instruments . Violation results to profit deduction except the trade was open 5 hours prior to the news event and automatically closed within the 10 min window.
• All major U.S. high-impact news events (marked as 'Red Folder') affect all trading instruments
• Repeated violations may result in stricter action, including account termination.
• Instant Prime allows news trading with an add-on.

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• EAs are allowed only on the challenge phase of assessment base accounts, not on funded and Instant funding accounts.
• Traders must customize EA settings to match their own style, cannot hide EA usage, and cannot use commercially available automated EAs.

External API Usage Rule:

• Prohibited on all Simulated Funded Accounts.
• All third-party tools, applications, or services requiring API access (including read-only) are disabled such as analytics platforms, journaling tools, automation software, and trade copiers.
• The policy applies universally with no exceptions to ensure fairness and long-term sustainability for the firm and traders.

Copy Trading

• Instant, Instant Prime. 1-Step Flash & 2-Step Pro
  • Manual copy trading is allowed between your own TOT accounts and other personally owned prop firm or broker accounts, on both evaluation and funded stages. However, copy trading between TOT accounts is only permitted on evaluation accounts — not on funded or instant funded accounts. Copying between different users is strictly prohibited. If you hold multiple funded accounts, identical trades must be placed at least 30 minutes apart to avoid being flagged. Violations trigger an account review, and if confirmed, the account may be reset or closed depending on the severity.

1-Step Nova

• Copy trading is permitted on Nova Accounts, including between your own Nova funded accounts, brokers or other prop firms accounts and via third-party copy trading software. Copying from other individuals, signal groups, or trade-sharing services remains prohibited. All copied trades stay subject to standard risk rules.

Magnum Accounts

• Not allowed

Weekend Trading/Holding:

• Allowed on all assessment based accounts on both evaluation and funded | For Instant Funding & Instant prime, Not Allowed except with the add-on
• Crypto trading on the Instant and Instant Prime accounts is allowed over the weekend, but only if the trades are opened after Friday 8 PM EST.

Inactivity Rule

• There's a 30-day inactivity rule. You must place at least one trade every 30 days (counting from account purchase date, not from first trade date) to avoid an account breach due to inactivity.

Stop Loss Rule

• You must have an active Stop Loss in place at all times when entering a trade.
• Removed with add-on

Soft Breach Limits

• 1-Step Nova & 1-Step Flash — Unlimited

• 2-Step Pro — 8

• Instant Prime — 5

• Instant Funding — 10

• Magnum Account — 5

• Exceeding these limits results in a hard breach.

Soft Breach Violations

• Violating the 10 minutes news restriction window
• Weekend Holding for restricted accounts
• Opening a trade without a stop-loss unless an Add - on is purchased
• Allowing more than a 2% loss per symbol on open trades or a 2.5% loss on all open trades. Should this happen, Equity Shield will protect your account by automatically closing trades in most cases
• Funded Accounts have a 20% open lot size limit based on the account size, capped at 20 lots total. Therefore if the total lots placed exceed the max lots, all open trades will be closed. $5k = Max 1 lot | $10k = Max 2 lots | $25k = Max 5 lots | $50k = Max 10 lots | $100k = Max 20 lots | $200k & $300K = Max 20 lots

Minimum Hold Time Rule for Trades

• All profitable trades must be held for at least 5 minutes before being closed. Closing a profitable trade in less than 5 minutes whether manually, by take profit, or by a stop loss (if set in profit), violates the rule.

• Consequences:

  • During Challenge Phases: Violations are reviewed by the Risk Team. Depending on severity, traders may be required to retake the challenge or receive a formal warning.
  • On Funded Accounts: Profits from non-compliant trades are deducted, and traders receive a warning. Repeated violations can result in account termination.

Prohibited Trading Practices

• High Frequency Trading (HFT), Tick Scalping, Latency Trading, Latency Arbitrage, Arbitrage Trading, Copy Trading (between accounts not owned by the same person), Group Trading, Hedging or Group Hedging Across Multiple Accounts, News Trading on Funded Accounts, Grid Trading, Martingale Strategy, 3rd Party Trading or ""Pass Your Challenge"" Programs, Masking of Expert Advisors (EAs), Gambling, Over-Leveraging, YOLO Trading, IP Address Sharing or Multiple IP Use Across Accounts, Rolling/Churning of Accounts.
• See Details: https://help.toponetrader.com/en/articles/9047696-what-are-the-restricted-prohibited-trading-strategies-at-top-one-trader

EquityShield

• Automatic Risk Management Tool: https://help.toponetrader.com/en/articles/9181278-what-is-the-equityshield

IP / VPN / VPS Policy

• Violations Include:

  • Using multiple IPs for one account.
  • Trading multiple accounts from the same/similar IPs.
  • Copying or hedging trades across different accounts or firms.

• VPS Usage: Allowed — must have a static IP and be used responsibly. Notify support if changing or traveling.

• VPN Usage: Strictly prohibited — using a VPN can trigger security flags and lead to account breaches or suspension.

• cTrader (No longer offered) Restriction: U.S. IP logins are automatically hard breached with no refunds.

• Penalties: Any violations may result in account breach, profit forfeiture, blacklisting, and potential legal action.

• See Details: https://help.toponetrader.com/en/articles/8733438-are-there-ip-address-restrictions

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INSTANT FUNDING & INSTANT PRIME

Minimum Trading days:

• No minimum trading days.

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NOVA

• The NOVA Account is a 1-step evaluation with a $7 entry fee and a pay-after-you-pass model. Once passed, traders pay a one-time activation fee to unlock their funded account, with a 30-day window to complete activation.

Minimum Trading Days:

• None

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1 STEP FLASH

Minimum Trading Days

• Evaluation & Funded: At least 3 profitable days with at least 0.5% net profit of the initial account balance each day.

Daily Profit Cap(Funded Only)

• The maximum daily profit is 3% of the funded starting balance -
• This is neither a soft breach nor a hard breach

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2 - STEP PRO

Minimum Trading Days

• Evaluation & Funded: At least 3 profitable days with at least 0.5% net profit of the initial account balance each day.

Daily Profit Cap

• Below $300K - $3,000
• $300K - $4,000

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Flash, Nova, & Pro Max Open Risk Rule (Equity Shield)

• Max Risk per Symbol: If the floating loss on a single symbol reaches 2% (New accounts – from Mar. 27, 2026 | 1% for existing accounts - before Mar. 27, 2026) of starting balance, all open trades on that symbol will, in most cases, be automatically closed. Applies to one symbol, even if multiple positions are open.

• Max Combined Risk: If combined floating drawdown reaches 2.5% (New accounts – from Mar. 27, 2026 | 1.1% for existing accounts - before Mar. 27, 2026) of starting balance, all open trades across all symbols will, in most cases, be automatically closed. Applies to total floating loss across all symbols.

• These actions are classified as a soft breach