Prop Firm Rules

News Trading:

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

Copy Trading:

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

Maximum daily profit (Instant Funding Pro):

• 4%

Max Floating Loss:

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

Static Drawdown rule for 1-Step Daily:

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

Prohibited Practices:

Risk management:

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

Martingale:

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

Grid Trading/ Hedging:

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

Reverse trading:

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

High-Frequency Trading (HFT):

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

Hyperactivity and Excessive Order Spamming:

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

Latency Arbitrage Trading:

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

General Exploitation of a Demo Environment:

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

Gamification of the Evaluation:

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

Account Sharing:

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

Phoenix Scaling Program:

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

At this point, the trader has two options:

Option 1 – Continue scaling:

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

Option 2 – Request a payout:

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

Plartform Eligibility

• TradeLocker and Match Trader Platform are only available for US and UK traders

Minimum Trading Days

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

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News Trading

Evaluation: Allowed with no restrictions

Funded

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

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

For Direct - Violation is a direct hard breach

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Expert Advisor

• EAs are strictly prohibited

EA Trading Add-on

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

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Consistent Trading Methodology

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

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Copy Trading

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

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Weekend Holding & Crypto Trading on Weekends

Evaluation: Allowed

Funded

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

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

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

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Inactivity Rule

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

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

Your risk per trade idea should not exceed 2% of the account size (initial balance). This includes;

• Single Trade Idea
• Layering/Splitting Positions - multiple positions on the same assets, same direction, with overlapping time are collectively treated as one single trade idea.
• The 10-Minute Re-entry Rule - Opening a new position in the same direction on the same asset within 10 minutes of closing counts as the continuation of the same trade idea.
• Breach of this rule will result in a hard breach and termination of the account.

Stop Loss Rules For Defining The 2% Risk Per Trade Idea Rule

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

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Max Exposure Limits (2 Step Pro — Funded only)

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

If breached:

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

Consequences:

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

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

MT5 Platform Limits

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

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Daily drawdown breach Payout protection policy

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

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Direct Trailing Drawdown Lock

Once a trader's profit equals the max trailing drawdown amount, the drawdown locks at the starting balance and no longer trails upward.

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Prohibited strategies

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

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

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Prime Consistency Program

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

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

News Trading

• Allowed in all Challenge Phases
• Funded Accounts and Instant Funding: Executing orders (including opened or closed orders, pending orders, SL/TP triggered) 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after high impact news on affected instruments is prohibited. Any profits made within the window will be voided.

Copy Trading

• You can copy trades between your own accounts within Atmos Funded. Copying from external sources is not allowed

Inactivity Rule

• Evaluation: 90 days
• Funded: 365 days

Expert Advisor (EA)

• Traders may use an Expert Advisor (EA) as long as they own it and aligns with their strategy. The use of commercial EAs is strictly prohibited.

Minimum Profitable Days

• All Challenge-based accounts (Evaluation & Funded) except Nova 1-Step have a minimum of 3 profitable days. 0.5% profit counts as a profitable day.
• Instant Funding: None
• Nova 1-Step: Evaluation: None | Funded: 7 Profitable trading days of 0.5% Profit each day

Nova 1-Step Risk Protection (Funded Only)

• The overall risk (closed and floating) per symbol should not exceed 1% in a single day.

Overnight | Weekend Holding

• Allowed

Crypto Trading on Weekends

• Not Allowed

Trade Duration

• At least 50% of all trades must remain open for more than 2 minutes.

Overleveraging

• Using 85% or more of the margin on a single asset is prohibited.

Group Trading / Account Management / Account Sharing

• Coordinated trading across two or more accounts of multiple users is strongly prohibited.

Chasing Price Rule (90 Seconds)

• Reversing positions on the same asset within 90 seconds of closing a prior trade is prohibited. This includes rapidly switching between buy and sell to recover losses without a structured strategy.

Anti-Gambling Policy

• Forbidden Gambling practices are: Aggressive Averaging, Martingale and One-Sided Betting, Chasing Price (90 Seconds Rule), Lack of Structured Risk Management, Tick Scalping, Grid Trading, Hyperactivity / Execution Flooding.
• See details: https://help.atmosfunded.com/en/articles/10109079-anti-gambling-policy?q=all+in

More Prohibited Strategies

• Latency / Arbitrage Trading, Tick-Scalping / HFT Abuse, News-Window Trading, Opposite Trading / Cross-Account Hedging, Group Trading / Account Management Abuse, Platform / Price-Feed Manipulation, Account Sharing / Identity Misuse, All-In (Gambling)
• See details: https://help.atmosfunded.com/en/articles/12381281-what-are-prohibited-strategies

Minimum Trading Days

1 Step Lite | 1 Step Standard + Free Retry

• Evaluation: 3 profitable days at 1%
• Funded: 3 trading days

2 Step Lite | 2 Step Standard + Free Retry

• Evaluation: 3 profitable days at 0.5%
• Funded: 3 trading days

Flash Activation Challenge

• Evaluation: 1 trading day
• Funded: 3 profitable trading days of 0.5% profit each day

Instant Standard & Instant Elite

• 4 Profitable trading days of 0.5%

All 300k and above Flash Activation, 1-Step Lite, 1-Step Standard, 2-Step Lite & 2-Step standard accounts have 5 minimum trading days instead of the standard 3 P&L requirements for the single trading day are dictated by the specific account type selected

Use of EAs (Expert Advisors)

• Only expert advisor that helps with risk management, graphs, and other trading tools that serve as a base for your trading ideas and strategies are Allowed.

• EAs that trade automatically or rely on automated strategies (e.g., martingale, grid, or public scalping bots like gold scalpers) are not allowed. Your EA must assist your manual trading, not replace it.

• If any unauthorized or hidden EA use is detected, the challenge may be terminated.

Grid Trading

• Placing buy and sell orders above and below a specific price is allowed as long as it is not used for market manipulation, over-leveraging, creating market instability, or pursuing risk-free profits.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is permitted between accounts you own, even across different platforms. To use a trade copier, you must request that EAs be enabled on your account

Martingale

• Allowed as long as it does not involve over-leveraging (risking all your daily loss in a single pair/direction) and is not used by shared EAs.

News Trading

• Allowed, especially for swing traders, but not for high-frequency trading (HFT) or hedging between different accounts for risk-free profits or account passage.

Weekend Holding

• Allowed

Crypto Trading on Weekends

• Not Allowed, except with add-on. Violation is a hard breach

Inactivity Rule

• 29 days inactivity period, make sure you place at least 1 trade in 29 days to keep your account active. You can pay a fee to cover the associated costs and reactivate the account. (40% of the original account's price without any coupons applied).

Strategy Risk Limit (Funded Stage Only)

• You cannot risk more than 50% of your daily loss limit on a single instrument in the same day.

• See details: https://faq.fundedelite.com/en/articles/12682106-strategy-risk-limits

Prohibited Trading strategies

• IP sharing, Strategy Risk Limits, HFT and High-Frequency Scalping, Weekend Trading, Hedging, Account Rolling, Account Sharing/any passing service, Latency Arbitrage, Server Spamming & Gambling
• See details: https://faq.fundedelite.com/en/collections/16305172-what-is-prohibited-with-us

Soft Breach Violations

• Scalping rule, IP Adress flags and Hedging flags.
• Violation results to:
  • reduction in profit split to 30%.
  • Payout Cycle for refundable fee will be reset.
• Persistent violation will result to account reset and profit forfeited.
• See details: https://faq.fundedelite.com/en/articles/13868489-what-is-considered-a-soft-breach

Minimum Trade Duration Rule

• All trades must be held for at least 3 minutes to prevent high-frequency or prohibited trading behavior.

• Minimum holding times falls to 30 seconds if the scalping addon has been selected when purchasing the account.

• Evaluation

  • Soft Breach: If scalping is an isolated incident and the total profits stay under the scalp limit on the trader's dashboard, the account is simply reset to try again.
  • Hard Breach: If scalping profits exceed the scalp limit on the trader's dashboard or violations are consistent throughout the challenge, the account will be terminated.

• Funded

  • Minor Violation: Any trade held under the minimum hold time (3 mins or 30s with addon), either profitable or in loss, results in a reduced profit split for that payout period.
  • Major Violation: If scalping profits exceed the scalp limit on trader's dashboard, your account is reset, and all current profits are forfeited

• Each case will be evaluated individually by the team.

VPS/VPN Usage Rule

• You may use a VPS or VPN, but you must inform support@fundedelite.com before doing so.

2 Step Standard + FREE RETRY Second chance modifications

• The account in second chance starts again from phase 1 of the challenge and the DLL reduces from 5% to 3%.

• Only in phase 1 second chance, the minimum P&L required to successfully complete a trading day goes from 0,5% to 1%.

• The profit split reduces to 50% for all future payouts.

1 Step Standard + FREE RETRY Second chance modifications

• The account in second chance starts again from phase 1 of the challenge, the MLL reduces from 8% to 6% and Profit target reduces from 12% to 10%.

• The profit split reduces to 50% for all future payouts.

Instant Catalyst

• The Catalyst is a single-stage instant funded account with no evaluation phase. Starting at 80% profit split, each approved payout doubles the account size with an increased split, scaling up to $1,000,000 at 95% profit split.

Starting Sizes

• $25,000: Six doublings between you and the top of the ladder.
• $50,000: Five doublings between you and the top.
• Both paths arrive at the same destination ($1M / 95%).
• Each new account is a clean slate: fresh balance, fresh drawdown limits, fresh profit target.

Minimum Profitable Trading Days

• 5 profitable trading days, each with a positive PnL of at least the stage's minimum PnL threshold:
  • 25K — $150
  • 50K — $250
  • 100K — $350
  • 200K — $450
  • 400K — $650
  • 800K — $850
  • 1M — $1,000

Resets (Safety Net)

• One paid reset available per stage, a breach doesn't send you back to the start
• Reset re-provisions the account at the same stage with the original starting balance
• Up to 6 resets across the full ladder starting from $25K, or 5 starting from $50K
• Previous stage wins are preserved
• $25K: NA | $50K: $890 | $100K: $1,290 | $200K: $1,790 | $400K: $2,490 | $800K: $3,390 | $1M: $4,790

GENERAL RULES

News Trading

• News trading is allowed, but trades opened/closed (either manually or automatically, such as via stop loss, take profit, or pending orders) within 5 minutes before or after high-impact news can generate a maximum profit of 1% of the account’s initial balance. Excess profits are removed without penalties. This applies to both challenge and funded phases.

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• Yes, you can use them as long as the EAs comply with the prohibited trading practices rule. However, you are not allowed to use 3rd party EAs, high-frequency trading (HFT) strategies / systems and/or Gold Arbitrage EA.
• If your EA requires a VPS to run, keep in mind that VPS usage is strictly prohibited on All One Step,Two Step,Instant Premium and Pay Later accounts purchased from August 12, 2026.
• Using an EA or trading bot to pass the Challenge Account and then switching to manual trading in the Funded Account (or vice versa) is strictly prohibited

Copy Trading

• Copying trades (manually or via EA) between your own GFT accounts is permitted, including between challenge accounts, between funded accounts, and between a challenge account and a funded account. Copying someone else’s trades is not permitted. Copying between your GFT account and a broker account, or between your GFT account and an account at another prop firm, is not permitted. Copy trading and signal services from other traders, signal providers, trading groups, or third-party services are strictly prohibited and may result in account termination.

Inactivity Rule

• 30 consecutive days, Inactive accounts within this period are breached

Social Media & Public Conduct

• Spreading false information or engaging in negative advertising about Goat Funded Trader on social media or public platforms is strictly prohibited. Violations result in:
  • Account termination
  • Permanent ban
  • Potential legal action

Risk Management & Trading Limits

• Risk limit: GFT may impose a 1% risk limit per trade idea if excessive risk-taking is detected. Non-compliance results in:

  • Immediate account breach
  • No payouts or entitlements

  Note: Restrictions may be lifted with consistent safe trading practices.

• GFT strictly prohibits high-risk, all-or-nothing strategies, including:

  • Using over 80% of available margin on a single trade.

Daily Profit Cap

• Funded Traders daily profits are capped at $3,000.

Minimum Trade Hold Time

• Profits from trades held under 1 minutes on funded accounts are not counted, while losses still apply.

Prohibited Trading Practices

• Exploit pricing/platform errors, use insider information, front-run trades, jeopardize broker relationships, create regulatory issues, all-or-nothing trading, risky trading styles, hedging (same or multiple accounts), use third-party/off-the-shelf EAs or strategies, switch strategies between assessment and funded stages, and duplicate trades or trade ideas across accounts, Martingale / Grid Recovery Systems Strategies that increase lot size after losses (Martingale or grid) are strictly prohibited.

• See details: https://help.goatfundedtrader.com/en/articles/10742118-what-are-prohibited-trading-practices

Overnight | Weekend Holding/Trading (Crypto)

• Allowed

Weekend Gap Policy

• Weekend holding Allowed but prohibits trading solely to exploit Monday morning market price gaps.
• For funded accounts, any profits generated from trades opened in the last three hours of Friday and closed in the first three hours of Monday will be removed.

The Goat Guard

• Goat Guard is GFT's risk management tool for funded accounts (excluding instant funding), automatically closing all open trades if they reach a 2% loss to prevent excessive drawdowns.
• This "soft breach" allows immediate continued trading, with no ban.
• Triggering it once reduces profit split to 50%; a second time breaches the account fully.

Shared Device Usage

• Traders are strictly prohibited from accessing or operating their account on any shared mobile or desktop device.
• Detection of account activity from a shared device especially one linked to multiple user accounts will result in immediate disqualification from payout eligibility and may lead to account termination.

IP Address and Account Access Policy Explained

• https://help.goatfundedtrader.com/en/articles/10742103-ip-address-and-

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1-STEP MODEL & 2-STEP MODELS [STANDARD & GOAT]

Minimum Trading Days

• Evaluation: 3 profitable trading days of 0.5% profit each day | Funded: 4 profitable trading days of 0.5% profit each day

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INSTANT FUNDING MODELS PREMIUM, GOAT & HERO

• Premium & Goat Minimum Trading Days: 5 profitable trading days with at least 0.5% profit of the account balance each day
• Hero Minimum Trading Days: 6 profitable trading days with at least 0.5% profit of the account balance each day

Max Floating Loss Rule

• Goat: Your account will be permanently closed if floating losses reach -2% of your balance at any time.
• Premium and Hero: Your account will be permanently closed if floating losses reach -1% of your balance at any time

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GOAT BLITZ

• Available for a limited time randomly on two weekends every month, offering traders a quick path to funding.

Minimum Trading Days

• Evaluation & Funded: 5 profitable trading days of at least 0.5% profit each day

Max Floating Loss Rule

• Your account will be permanently closed if floating losses reach -2% of your balance at any time.

Key rules

• Australian traders: Clients in Australia can use FTMO services which are facilitated via FTMO affiliated entity at https://ftmo.com/au/
• USA Traders: Clients in the United States of America can use FTMO services facilitated via our affiliated entity at https://ftmo.oanda.com

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Min trading days

2-Step Standard & 2- Step Swing

• Evaluation: 4 days | Funded: None

1-Step Standard

• None - 2 days based on the 50% Consistency rule

Instant

• None - 4 days based on the 30% Consistency rule

News Trading

2-Step Swing

• Allowed on both evaluation & funded with no restrictions

Instant, 1-Step Standard & 2-Step Standard

Evaluation:

• Allowed with no restrictions

Funded:

• On the targeted instruments, it is not permitted to open or close any trades, including pending orders (such as Stop Loss or Take Profit), within a time window starting 2 minutes before and ending 2 minutes after the release of high-impact news events. Violating this may result in termination of an FTMO Account / FTMO Instant Account.

Overnight and Weekend Holding

2-Step Swing

• Allowed on both evaluation & funded with no restrictions

Instant, 1-Step Standard & 2-Step Standard

Evaluation:

• Allowed with no restrictions

Funded:

• Holding trades over the weekend and over a market rollover period longer than 2 hours is prohibited. Violating may result in termination of an FTMO Account / FTMO Instant Account.

Crypto Trading on Weekends:

• Allowed on all account types with no restrictions

Third-Party Trading:

• Your account must not be traded by any third party.

Position Sizes:

• Opening significantly larger position sizes or substantially different numbers of positions compared to other trades is prohibited.

1%–1.5% Risk Guidance Rule

• FTMO recommends risking no more than 1%–1.5% of your initial account balance per trade, helping traders avoid high-risk behavior that may trigger risk monitoring, warnings, or protective restrictions intended to prevent gambling-style trading.

Forbidden Trading Practices:

• FTMO reserves the right to determine at its discretion if certain trades, practices, strategies, or situations are considered forbidden trading practices: Overleveraging, Overexposure, One-Sided bets, Account Rolling; https://ftmo.com/en/gambling-is-not-the-right-way-to-make-money/
• Forbidden Trading practices explained

Multiple Profile Accounts:*

• Opening multiple profile accounts is prohibited.

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Copy Trading

• Allowed, Copying other traders is strictly prohibited, you are the only one managing your accounts, and you respect the 400,000 simulated USD maximum capital allocation rule.

EAs:

• EAs are allowed. Max 2,000 server requests per day. Popular 3rd party EAs risk exceeding the 400k max capital allocation limit strategy, which may result in denial or suspension of the FTMO account.

Inactivity

• 30 days (You must open at least one trade every 30 days to prevent account termination due to inactivity. Alternatively, you can request to freeze your account for 7 days to 6 months to avoid termination.)

VPN/VPS Policy:

• Trading while travelling and the use of VPN/VPS is generally allowed. The only exception: traders must avoid logging into MetaTrader or cTrader from the United States, or setting their VPN/VPS geolocation to the US.

IP Address Policy

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

Martingale

• Allowed.

Gambling is prohibited and includes:

• Excessive Scalping
  • Holding 50%+ of trades for less than a minute.

All-in

• Making a single trade with no stop-loss or risking more than the drawdown limit to pass or fail the challenge. This rule also applies for the funded stage.

Gamifying

• Trading 2 accounts against each other, going long on one and short on the other, with the hope of passing the challenge.

• A trade refers to one or more positions on the same pair with similar timing and lot size. Small-lot or random “gambling” entries don’t qualify and may lead to disqualification.

More on prohibited strategies

• High-Frequency Trading, Toxic Trading Order Flow, Long/Short arbitrage, reverse arbitrage, tick scalping, server execution, Grid/Gap Trading, Reverse/Group Hedging and Hedging

• Violation leads to account termination

• See details: https://maventrading.com/faqs#what-does-maven-classify-as-cheating

News Trading

• Executing trades within 2 minutes before or after a red folder news event, including trades hitting TP, profit target, or any trade in profit even those opened before the event. The auto-close feature triggering during this window also counts as a violation, whether or not a TP is set. Any profit generated in the news window means the challenge won't be passed. The same rules apply to funded accounts, with profits from news events not credited in either phase. The firm maintains a predefined list of specific news events and trading pairs that are restricted — only the explicitly listed instruments are affected.
• https://maventrading.com/faqs#can-i-trade-during-the-news

Instant Mini, Instant Funding & 1-Step BNPL:

• News trading allowed with no restrictions

• 2-Step Omo
  News trading is fully permitted during Phase 1 and Phase 2 with no restrictions. In the funded stage, news trading is still allowed but any profit made during a news event within a 4-minute window, 2 minutes before and after is capped at 0.50% of your account balance.

Funded Daily Profit Cap

• In the funded stage, if total profits exceed $5,000, no single trade or trading day (measured as the time between two trades, not by calendar day) may account for more than 50% of the total profit. Profits above this threshold are reduced to meet the 50% limit. After surpassing $5,000 in payouts, traders must complete a mandatory risk interview with an analyst. One reschedules is allowed, but failure to attend the rescheduled session will result in the payout being withheld. Traders have two weeks from the invitation date to complete the interview. Random interviews may also be conducted for profits below $5,000, and accounts reset to the starting balance after payout.

Risk Limit

• This rule applies only to a small minority of traders who show poor risk management. It’s intended to help them trade more responsibly and with discipline. Unless notified, you may trade freely without restrictions. However, if you exceed the risk limits stated in your email, your account will be breached.

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Buyback

• You can restore a funded account instantly via Buyback by paying a fee, no challenge needed

• The cost of a buyback is:

  • $2,000 Account = $200
  • $5,000 Account = $400
  • $10,000 Account = $750
  • $20,000 Account = $1,400
  • $50,000 Account = $3,500
  • $100,000 Account = $6,000

Expert advisors

• EAs are not permitted under any circumstances across all our platforms.

Copy Trading

• Manual Copy Trading is allowed Between your own Maven trading accounts, other prop firm accounts and broker accounts.
  Trade copiers can't be used on platforms offered and copy other trades is strictly prohibited

Weekend Holding | Crypto Trading on weekends

• Allowed

Inactivity Rule

• Accounts must not be dormant for more than 30 calendar days

Min Trading Days

Instant Mini, Instant, 1-Step Standard, 3-step Standard & 1-Step BNPL

• Evaluation & Funded: None

2-Step Standard

• Evaluation & Funded: 3 Profitable days of 0.5% profit each day

2-Step Omo

• Evaluation & Funded: 4 Profitable days of 0.5% profit each day

2-Step Omo Time Limit

• The 2-Step Omo has a combined maximum duration of 180 days across both phase 1 and 2, with no separate deadline per phase.

Minimum Trade Hold Time Rules

1-Step BNPL, 1 Step Standard, 2 Step Standard, 3 Step Standard, and Instant Program

• Evaluation and Funded: Holding 50% or more of your trades for less than a minute is prohibited

Instant Mini & 2 Step Omo (Funded Only)

• Every trade must remain open for a minimum of 150 seconds (2.5 minutes). Trades closed before this threshold will not count toward your progress.

1-Step BNPL & 2-Step Omo M2 Account Saver

• M2 Account Saver Automatically triggers when drawdown reaches 2% of the account balance. First breach closes all open trades and permanently reduces profit split to 50%. Second breach is a hard breach

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Instant Mini & Instant Funding Risk Rules

• At no point can your account have more than a 1% loss in floating PnL. This is the difference between your balance and equity, if this happens then your account will be breached.

Instant Mini Max Open Positions

• Only one trade may be open at any given time.

GENERAL RULES

News Trading

• Evaluation: Allowed with No Restriction
• Funded / Instant Accounts: You can hold trades during news events, but opening positions within 5 minutes before or after high-impact news is not allowed; profits from such trades will be deducted.

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• EAs are allowed only if they assist your personal trading decisions — fully automated or self-trading EAs & bots are strictly prohibited.

Copy Trading

• Allowed between For Traders Accounts and from your For Traders account (acting as the Master account) to your own external accounts (other propfirms or personal accounts).
• Copying trades to a For Traders account is strictly prohibited.

Overnight | Weekend Holding

• Allowed

Drawdown Protection - All Funded Accounts Except Instant Pro

• Your Floating loss must not reach -2% of the starting balance (monitored in real-time)
• 1st Violation: All open trades are closed immediately, account remains active, profit split reduced to 50%
• 2nd Violation: All open trades are closed and the account is terminated

Minimum Hold Time Rule

• All trades must remain open for at least 5 seconds before being closed to avoid being flagged for high-frequency trading (HFT).

Forbidden Practices

• High-Frequency Trading (HFT), Arbitrage trading (Reverse arbitrage, Latency arbitrage), Grid trading, Tick scalping, Group trading, Martingale, Hedging, Account rolling, Third-party account operation, Use of Automated Bots, Gambling, Copy Trading into a For Traders Account, Group and Signal Trading, Overleveraging, One-sided Betting.

• Code of conduct; Spreading false or harmful information, Coercion or threats, Sharing private communication, Payment disputes, Harassment or toxicity, Spamming, Persistent begging, System abuse, Impersonation for trader staff.

• See Details: https://help.fortraders.com/en/articles/15343227-what-is-forbidden-with-us

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Instant & Instant Pro

Minimum Trading days

• Instant: 7 profitable days with at least 0.5% profit of the starting balance.
• Instant Pro: None

Inactivity Rule

• Accounts with no meaningful trading activity for 7 consecutive days will be terminated, with inactivity counted from the time the last position is closed.

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Pay After Pass, Fast Static, Fast & Classic

Minimum Trading Days

• Fast Static, Fast & Classic

  • Evaluation & Funded phase: 3 profitable days with at least 0.5% profit of the starting balance in each phase

• Pay After Pass

  • Evaluation & Funded: None

Inactivity Rule

• Accounts with no meaningful trading activity for 30 consecutive days will be terminated, with inactivity counted from the time the last position is closed.

• See details here: https://intercom.help/for-traders/en/articles/9259881-do-you-have-any-inactivity-rule

News Trading:

• News trading is not allowed 5 minutes before and after high impact new during funded stage and live program.

Prohibited Practices

• Gap trading — strategies designed to exploit abnormal market gaps, pricing irregularities or market-open inefficiencies in an abusive or commercially unreasonable way.
• Churning and burning — excessive activity intended solely to generate volume, rapidly pass evaluations through reckless exposure or abuse promotional structures.
• Toxic trading flow — behaviour identified as harmful to liquidity providers, execution infrastructure or platform operations.
• Other prohibited practices

Live Program

• The move to Live happens automatically after 5 payouts on one funded account, or 5 payouts total across accounts. Tradeify FX can also move a trader Live at any time at its discretion.

Failure to accept:

• Funded accounts close (eligible rewards paid), open evals close with no refund, and no further Tradeify FX or Tradeify 247 accounts can be purchased.
• Find out more

Inactivity

• 30 days

GENERAL RULES

News Trading Rule

• You may hold trades and trade during news events
• Avoid opening, closing (TP, SL or manual) or adding to positions within 3 minutes before or after any high impact news release or speech on affected instruments, as that can be identified as excessive risk
• This applies to all programs (Ability Challenge, Ability One, FTP(instant funding))
• Violation is a hard Breach
• All FOMC events such as meetings, statements, press conferences, speeches, and related releases are treated as major news events under this rule, regardless of their impact rating (low, medium or high impact) on any economic calendar

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• EAs are allowed if they follow prohibited-strategy rules and are not sourced from third-party signals

Scalping Rule

• Scalping is allowed
• However, if trades are closed within two minutes or less or those resembling arbitrage are prohibited and may lead to action from the Risk Team

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is allowed between your own accounts within Audacity Capital
• Copying from an external account is allowed only if the account belongs to you
• Third-party copying is not permitted
• Audacity 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 Audacity Capital's internal copy trading feature, PF1 empowers users to manage trades across multiple firms, enhancing scalability and trading efficiency without breaching Audacity Capital's core rules. For more details on this enhanced functionality, visit PropFirmOne.com.

Inactivity Rule

• Both Ability accounts (all stages) and the Funded Trader Program(Instant Funding) have a 6 month inactivity period
• No trade within this period will result to account breach

Weekend Holding/Trading(crypto)

• Allowed

Max Lot Limit

• There are no overall lot size restrictions on the account, but each individual open position is limited to a maximum of 10 lots as a risk management measure by the provider

VPN/VPS Policy

• VPN use is generally prohibited due to IP tracking and server misuse risks, but may be allowed with valid justification and approval
• VPS use is permitted for running EAs, provided it doesn't cause server abuse

Prohibited Trading Practices

• High-Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Tick Scalping
• Hedging Within or Across Accounts
• Martingale / Averaging Down Strategies
• Group Hedging and Coordinated Trading
• Use of Third-Party Expert Advisors (EAs)
• Third-Party Account Management
• Copy Trading and Signal Mirroring
• Grid Trading Strategies
• Pre-News One-Sided Positioning
• Exploitation of Technical or System Vulnerabilities
• Uncritical Directional Trading
• Automated Bulk Trade Execution
• Lot Size Misuse
• Dollar cost Averaging
• Prohibited Trading Practices explained: https://audacity.capital/prohibited-trading-practices/

Tradeable Assets

• https://audacity.capital/symbols/

ABILITY CHALLANGE & ABILITY ONE

• Minimum Trading days
  • Evaluation: 3 days for Ability One (1-step) & 4 days for Ability Challange (2-step)
  • Funded: None

FUNDED TRADER PROGRAM

• Minimum Trading days: 5 Days
• Minimum Profitable Days: 3 out of the 5 trading days