Prop Firm Rules

General Trading Rules

Notional Volume:

• The Notional Volume Limit controls the maximum permitted open notional exposure for the account. It is separate from platform leverage, margin usage, and buying power. https://help.finotivefunding.com/en/articles/927-what-are-the-notional-volume-limits

Floating Drawdown

• Instant Funding: On Instant Funding accounts, the Floating Drawdown threshold is 1.5% of the Initial Account Balance. A Dashboard or platform reminder may appear at 1.0%. The first confirmed Floating Drawdown breach results in a Formal Warning only. From the second confirmed breach onward, each separate qualifying event results in one Strike and Reward Payment reduction to 10% for the relevant Payout Cycle.

• Challenge and Pro evaluation phases: During Challenge and Pro Challenge phases, the Floating Drawdown threshold is 2.0% of the Initial Account Balance. Reaching the threshold does not result in a real-time alert, email alert, platform notification, soft warning, Strike, Account Reset, Reward Payment reduction, or account closure. Relevant findings may be included in the Challenge Phase Progression Report.

• Challenge and Pro funded phase: Once a Challenge or Pro account reaches Simulated Funded Status, the 2.0% Floating Drawdown threshold is enforced. A reminder may appear at 1.5%. A confirmed breach results in one Strike and Reward Payment reduction to 10% for the relevant Payout Cycle. Only one Strike may be issued per trade and instrument combination. Five cumulative Strikes result in permanent account closure.

Loss-chasing and gambling-style trading behavior is prohibited

• This refers to repeatedly engaging in one-directional or impulsive trading aimed at recovering prior losses, including immediately re-entering positions in the same instrument and direction after a losing trade

Scalping Rule:

• Short-duration trading is not automatically prohibited. Prohibited scalping is identified by Finotive thresholds. A scalping condition is identified where 40% or more of closed trades in a Payout Cycle have a holding time of 120 seconds or less, or 20% or more of total positive realised profit in the Payout Cycle is generated from trades held for 120 seconds or less.

High Frequency Trading:

• The specific High-Frequency Trading rule applies to Instant Funding Standard and Instant Funding Lite only. HFT is prohibited where 30% or more of closed trades have a holding time of less than 60 seconds, with at least 10 closed trades required before assessment, or five or more trades are opened within any 10-second interval.

Excessive One-Sided Position Concentration:

• Excessive One-Sided Position Concentration is identified where the trader has at least 10 closed trades in a Payout Cycle and either 70% or more of closed trades are on the same symbol and in the same direction, or 70% or more of total exposure is on the same symbol and in the same direction.

What is Liquidity Abuse:

• Liquidity Abuse means systematically targeting low-liquidity conditions, widened spreads, or execution inefficiencies. A condition may be identified where at least 20% of total realised profit in a review period or Payout Cycle is generated from trades opened and closed within the applicable low-liquidity window.

Low-liquidity trading and spread exploitation is prohibited

• This refers to the systematic execution of trades during low-liquidity market conditions with the intent to benefit from widened spreads, delayed order execution, or sharp price movements. A breach occurs when trades are consistently opened or closed between 22:00 and 02:00 UTC, and more than 20% of total profit is generated during this time window.

  Use of VPNs, iCloud Private Relay, proxies, remote desktops, anonymisers, IP masking, rapidly changing IPs, or geographically inconsistent connections may lead to failed verification, account closure, Reward Payment rejection, and refund refusal.

Weekend holding: Evaluation based programs

• Allowed | Instant Standard & Instant Lite: Not Allowed without add-on

Hedging

• Hedging between multiple accounts is prohibited.

High-frequency stacking (including correlated instruments)

News straddling is prohibited.

• This means placing straddled, offsetting, or equivalent hedged exposure on the same or correlated instruments within 15 minutes before or after Red or Amber events, earnings events, or geopolitical events where the purpose is to capture volatility rather than express a genuine directional view.

Accounts inactive for 30 consecutive days may be closed without refund

GENERAL RULES

Inactivity Rule

• 60 Days Inactivity period (must trade at least once in 60 days to keep the account active, violation results to account breach)

EAs Availability

• These are specific for MT5 accounts only.
• Pine Script: This is specific for TradingView.
• For its review, please provide the following details to allow FXIFY to assess it directly:
  • Brief description of the EA
  • Timeframe it trades on
  • Average holding time of open positions
  • Trading pairs used
  • Take profit target (in pips)
  • Whether it uses High-Frequency Trading (HFT): Yes/No
  • Whether it involves Latency Arbitrage: Yes/No

Third party purchase policy

• Accounts obtained through third-party purchases are subject to termination. In limited cases, such as a married couple with a shared bank account, exceptions may apply

Prohibited Trading Practices/Strategies

• High Frequency Trading (HFT)
• Reverse Hedging
• Group Hedging
• Account Management
• Latency Arbitrage
• Use of a Delayed Data Feed
• Trading on Delayed Charts
• Order Book Spamming
• Herd Trading
• Collusion Between Users
• Poor Money Management
• Improper Risk Management
• Gambling Behavior (YOLO strategies, impulsive/emotional trading)
• Exploiting Bugs and Glitches (including arbitrage through glitches)
• High Leverage News Trading (HLNT – if used as gambling without proper risk management)
• Statistical Arbitrage
• See details: https://fxify.com/fxifys-prohibited-strategies/

IP/Device Policy

• Traders can use different IPs and devices — this is allowed and not a violation.
• Multiple accounts using the same IP may trigger a review, as it can suggest prohibited activities like account management.
• FXIFY also checks CID (computer ID). If multiple users share the same CID, this raises concerns about account management or KYC violations.

Performance Protect - Add-on

• FXIFY Performance Protect is a unique feature designed to safeguard funded traders’ accounts in the event of a drawdown breach. Performance protect explained: https://fxify.com/faqs/all-faqs/performance-protect/

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ONE PHASE, TWO PHASE [PRO, STANDARD (TRAILING) & CLASSIC (STATIC)], THREE PHASE

One Phase, Two Phase Standard & Three Phase Minimum Trading days

• Evaluation & Funded: 5 days for each phase

Two phase Classic Minimum Trading days

• Evaluation & Funded: 4 days for each phase

2-Phase Pro Minimum Trading days

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

News Trading

• Allowed without Restriction

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• Allowed upon review by the support team and pre-approval.

Copy Trading

• You can copy trades between your FXIFY accounts and from your FXIFY accounts to other accounts. Copy trading is not allowed on Instant Funding LITE, Instant Funding accounts, 2 Phase PRO (unless the 2 PHASE PRO is the Master account) and on the Lightning Plan.

Weekend Holding

• Allowed

2-Phase Pro Daily profit Cap

• $4000 profit in 1 trading day. Once this profit limit is reached, you will be closed out and unable to continue trading till the next trading day.

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INSTANT STANDARD & INSTANT LITE

Minimum Trading Days

• Instant Standard: None
• Instant Lite: 5 days

News Trading

• Restricted 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after high impact news. Holding through the news is allowed but executing trades (Opening, closing, market orders including stop loss and take profit orders within this 10-minute window is restricted. any profit made within this window is not counted.

Copy Trading

• Prohibited

Weekend Holding

• Not Allowed, Open positions will be automatically closed before market closes on Friday

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• Prohibited, the use of EA’s, bots and copy traders is prohibited and can run the risk of account being terminated

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LIGHTNING CHALLENGE

Minimum Trading days

• Evaluation & Funded: 3 days

Time Limit

• 7 Days - 5 Trading days

Stop Loss Rule

• Required, 1st & 2nd trades without stop loss automatically closes (soft breach). The 3rd trade without a stop loss is a Hard breach.

News Trading

• Restricted 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after high impact news. Holding through the news is allowed but executing trades (Opening, closing, market orders including stop loss and take profit orders within this 10-minute window is restricted. any profit made within this window is not counted.

Night and Weekend Holding

• Allowed

Copy Trading

• Prohibited, Traders must execute their own trades without replicating the trades of others.

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• Prohibited, the use of EA’s and bots is prohibited and can run the risk of account being terminated

News Trading

• Orion Nova, Standard & Orion Select: News trading is allowed during evaluation phases. On funded accounts, opening, closing, or modifying trades is prohibited 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after high-impact news events.
• Orion Swing: News trading is fully allowed with no restrictions.
• Orion Zero: News trading is allowed. However, trades opened or closed within 5 minutes before or after a high-impact news event are subject to a 50% reward split instead of the standard 80% split.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is allowed only between accounts owned by the same trader within Orion Funded. External copy trading services, third-party tools, or trade replication between different account holders are strictly prohibited.

Expert Advisor

• Expert Advisors are allowed as long as they comply with Orion Funded's trading rules. EAs or automated systems used for prohibited strategies, system abuse, latency exploitation, ultra-fast execution, or unfair trading advantages are not permitted.

Inactivity Rule

• Accounts with no trading activity for 30 consecutive calendar days may be classified as inactive, deactivated, or terminated.

Prohibited Practices

• Gap trade: open trades specifically to exploit price gaps in either of the following situations:
  • when major global news, macroeconomic events, or earnings releases are scheduled that may affect the relevant market; or
  • within 2 hours of a relevant market closing for at least 2 hours
• Circumvent the Best Day Rule: strategies that artificially distribute profit across multiple days without proportionally distributing market risk
• Overload the server with automation: EAs or robots that generate more than 2,000 server requests per day (orders opened, modified, or closed) are not permitted
• Exploit platform errors: knowingly or unknowingly use strategies that take advantage of price display errors, delayed price updates, or slow or external data feeds
• Coordinate manipulative trades: perform trades alone or with others, including across connected accounts or accounts held with other providers, for manipulative purposes, such as simultaneously holding opposite positions across different accounts (holding opposing positions within a single account is permitted)
• Other prohibited practices: https://www.orionfunded.com/faq/programs/prohibited-practices

Risk Management Rules

• Your trading needs to reflect how a reasonable person would manage risk on a real account. The following are not considered standard market risk management:
  • Opening position sizes that are substantially larger than your other trades
  • Opening substantially more or fewer positions than your normal pattern
  • Repeatedly increasing risk per trade in ways that build cumulative exposure in a single symbol or correlated symbols

Maximum Lot Sizes:

• https://instantfunding.com/help/maximum-lot-sizes/

Margin Limit:

• https://instantfunding.com/help/how-do-you-show-good-risk-management/

Minimum hold time:

• Trades held for 60 seconds or less are regarded as high frequency trades and are prohibited

Smart Drawdown (Instant Funding Pro, Instant Funding Lite and Instant Funding Clarity):

• It starts at -10% and automatically adjusts to -5% once you achieve a 5% gain on your account balance. After that point, the drawdown remains fixed at -5% of your starting balance, even if your profits grow.

News Trading:

• One-Phase Pro, and One Phase Lite (challenge phase only): No news restrictions
• IF Micro Pro, IF Starter, IF Evolve: No news restrictions
• Instant Funding Pro, Instant Funding Lite, One-Phase Pro, One Phase Lite (funded accounts) and Instant Funding Clarity: News trading is not allowed 4 minutes before and after high impact news, Allowed with Add-on.
• News trading is not allowed on IF Micro Lite accounts. Opening or closing a trade within 4 minutes either side of a red folder news event will result in a minor violation on your account.

Weekend Holding

• One-Phase Pro, and One Phase Lite (challenge phase only): Allowed
• IF Micro Pro, IF Starter: Allowed
• Instant Funding Pro, Instant Funding Lite, One-Phase, One Phase Lite (funded accounts) and Instant Funding Clarity: Allowed with Add-on
• IF Evolve: Not allowed

Inactivity: If no trades are placed within 60 days of your account purchase or after the last trade, your account will be automatically closed.

Risk per Trading Instrument

• Instant Funding Pro: You may not risk more than 3% of your starting account balance at any time on a single trade idea.
• Instant Funding Lite: You may not risk more than 2% of your starting account balance at any time on a single trade idea.
• IF Micro Pro and IF Starter: You may not risk more than 1% of your starting account balance at any time in one trade idea
• One Phase Pro: You may not risk more than 50% of your daily drawdown at any time in one trade idea.
• Closing and reopening a position in the same direction on the same instrument within 10 minutes is treated as the same trade idea and does not reset the limit. -Exceeding this limit will result in a hard breach.
• Account Drawdown (Clarity): If the unrealized loss on your open positions exceeds 2% of the starting balance on a One-Phase Clarity account or 1.5% on an IF Micro Clarity account, and 2.5% on an Instant Funding Clarity account the system closes everything automatically. First time, your account moves to a 50% profit split and stays active — your second chance. A second breach closes the account permanently.

Prohibited Practice and strategies

• Latency Arbitrage: Exploiting delays in data updates for unfair advantages.
• Tick Scalping: Attempting to profit from minimal price fluctuations at unsustainable speeds.
• Account Arbitrage: Using multiple accounts to exploit differences in trading conditions, bonuses, or risk limits for unfair gain.
• Account Churning (Rolling): Opening multiple funded or challenge accounts in quick succession is prohibited
• High-frequency trading (HFT): HFT involves holding trades for 60 seconds or less.
• Third-Party EAs: Publicly available third-party Expert Advisors (EAs), algorithms, or bots are not permitted.
• Reverse Trading: Involves using multiple accounts to take opposing positions on the same asset (e.g., one account goes long while another goes short).
• Group Hedging: Occurs when multiple traders coordinate their positions to hedge risk across accounts.
• One-Sided Bets: Taking positions in a single direction without proper analysis or consideration of market trends, often leading to excessive exposure.
• Grid Trading: Placing buy and sell orders at fixed intervals, relying solely on price fluctuations rather than informed analysis. This strategy disregards market conditions and often leads to uncontrolled losses.
• Overleveraging: Exceeding the allowable lot size limit for your account type on a single trade idea. This creates excessive risk and significantly increases the chances of an account wipeout.
• Gambling: Engaging in trades that resemble betting rather than strategy, such as placing random positions without analysis or risking large portions of the account on a single trade idea.
• Martingale: Increasing positional notional volume after each trade, aiming to recover previous losses or amplify winnings on subsequent trades. This involves doubling down after a losing trade. Martingale trading is allowed for all challenges and IF Micro accounts (including funded stage). For Instant Funding accounts, traders can add to losing positions but must avoid continuously doubling lot sizes after losses.
• Improper Day Padding: If a minimum trading day requirement applies to your account, each trading day should reflect your normal trading behavior. Opening negligible or artificial trades solely to meet the minimum trading day requirement is not permitted.
  • This includes: Trading significantly smaller lot sizes than usual, Executing low-risk or meaningless trades with no strategic intent. Such behavior is considered inconsistent and does not align with our evaluation of genuine trading skill.

General Rules

Minimum Trading Days

• Instant Funding, 1-Step Express and 2-Step Classic

  • No minimum trading days

• Activation Accounts

  • Evaluation: None | Funded: 10 trading days

News Trading Rule

• News trading is allowed at all times, including during high-impact events, as long as you do not risk your entire or majority account balance on a single news trade.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is permitted between your own accounts, including personal or other prop firm accounts and a Funded Trading Plus account. Copying another trader's trades, or allowing others to copy yours, is strictly prohibited and may result in profits being nullified. Positions don't need identical open and close times to be flagged — overlapping trades on the same market and direction across different traders' accounts may trigger a review.

• Funded Trading Plus' 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 Funded Trading Plus’ internal copy trading feature, PF1 empowers users to manage trades across multiple firms, enhancing scalability and trading efficiency without breaching Funded Trading Plus’ core rules. For more details on this enhanced functionality, visit PropFirmOne.com.

Expert Advisors

• EAs, algos, and bots are permitted, provided they comply with program rules. Abusive strategies such as arbitrage, grid trading, and tick scalping are prohibited. EAs may not be used for group copy trading or hedging across accounts. FT+ does not provide support for third-party EAs or bots, these remain the trader's responsibility.

Inactivity

• Your evaluation & FT+ Trader sim funded account would only expire in the event that there is no simulated trading activity on it within a 30-day period.

Weekend Holding

• Allowed except on Instant Funding where all trades must be closed by 4.30pm (EST) on Friday or will be automatically closed by the system

Crypto Trading On weekends

• Allowed

2-Step Classic 3% Symbol Loss Limit (Hard Breach)

• No single instrument can incur more than a 3% simulated equity loss, calculated based on the prior day's balance.
• Multiple simultaneous trades on the same instrument count as one.

Risk Review Policy

• FT+ performs risk reviews during evaluation passes, scaling, and withdrawal requests to ensure responsible trading and prevent issues early. Reviews focus on margin utilization, with set thresholds that trigger manual checks by the risk team.
• Read Full Policy: FT+ Risk Review Policy

Account Management policy

• Only the account owner may trade, purchase, and manage their FT+ account. Account sharing, third-party management, or using another person’s payment method is strictly prohibited and may cause KYC issues.

Prohibited Trading Strategies

• Excessive Risk Taking (Single Trade)
• Excessive Cumulative Risk Taking
• Boom or Bust (News-Based Risk)
• Trading Contrary to Real Market Practices
• Over-Leveraging / Over-Exposure
• One-Sided Bets
• Arbitrage / Exploiting Pricing Feeds
• Exploiting the Simulated Environment
• Tick Scalping
• Copy trading across different users
• Hedging Across Multiple Accounts
• High Frequency Trading

See details: https://www.fundedtradingplus.com/terms-conditions

Key rules

• Multiple Profiles: Creating multiple profiles is prohibited.

• Opposite trading/hedging across multiple accounts or traders

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

• Tick scalping: defined as opening and closing a trade within 10 seconds. If over 10% of your trades are tick scalps, you will receive a warning, and repeated violations will lead to account termination.

• Using a single electronic device for trading between multiple customers is prohibited.

• It is strictly prohibited for anyone to pay for a Fintokei service on behalf of someone else, regardless of the payment method used. We call this practice unauthorized third-party payment.

• It's prohibited to use multiple IP addresses from many countries when connecting to your Fintokei Demo accounts or mask the IP addresses.

• One-sided betting: placing big trades during high volatility or news events without a strategy, hoping for a spike

• Account rolling: pushing the accounts to the limits, then buying another one

• All-in trading: effectively achieving the Profit Target in one trade (or in a few similar trades on the same instrument)

• Maximum allowed risk: The maximum allowed risk of opened trades is 3%. The risk on open trades is calculated based on stop losses set by the trader (if applicable and visible in the platform) and on the Value at Risk (VaR) analysis over a specific period or trading session, whichever is lower.

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

Consistency Rules

• The restrictions in this case apply to all existing and future accounts under your profile at Fintokei.
• This happens in more serious cases, such as:
  • After receiving 3 or more warnings across different accounts without visible change
  • When your overall profile shows unsustainable trading patterns; for example, repeated breaches due to high-risk behavior, reliance on a few high-impact days, high-impact trade ideas or on an excessive volatility
  • If your trading is flagged as unsustainable because it performs like randomness.
  • If we detect patterns similar to system abuse (e.g. hedging across accounts, copy trading behavior, etc.), but do not have proof of such malicious activity
  • These cases go beyond just one account, they reflect your overall approach, and we have to step in at the profile level to protect platform integrity.
• Read in detail: https://support.fintokei.com/en/articles/11315966-consistency-rules-most-common-application

Inactivity rule

• 30 days

Maximum order size per trade

• See details: https://www.fintokei.com/symbols/

Stocks Availability Per Platform

• Stocks are available only on MT5 & MatchTrader

General Trading Rules

Minimum Trading Days

Instant Standard & Instant Pro

• 4 profitable days of atleast 0.5% profit each day

1-Step Flash, 1-Step Rapid, 2-Step (Elite, Classic & Ultra)

• Evaluation & Funded: 4 Trading days

1-Step Power

• Evaluation: None | Funded: 3 profitable days of atleast 0.5% profit each day

News Trading

• News trading is allowed during the Evaluation phase.
• On simulated funded accounts, traders are not allowed to open new trades or close existing trades on affected instruments within the 8-minute red folder news window, which is 4 minutes before and 4 minutes after the news event.
• Any profit generated during this restricted window may be deducted from the account. In rare cases, the account may be reset.
• This rule only applies to instruments affected by the specific event.
• All trades during high-impact news events must include predefined SL and TP.

Expert Advisors / cBots / Indicators

• Expert Advisors, cBots and indicators are allowed as long as they follow a strategy permitted by WSFunded.
• However, EAs and cBots cannot be used on Instant Standard or Instant Pro accounts.

Copy Trading

• Manual copy trading between the trader’s own accounts is only allowed when both accounts are in the Evaluation phase, and the accounts are not $100,000 accounts.
• Automatic or manual copy trading is not allowed between funded accounts, between a challenge account and a funded account, to $100K accounts, through external copy trading tools, or between accounts belonging to different clients.
• Improper use of copy trading may lead to corrective action, including account termination and removal from the program.

Weekend Holding/Trading

• Weekend Holding/ trading is allowed. Traders may keep and open positions over the weekend.

Inactivity Period:

• 30 days

Mandatory Stop Loss

• All trades must have a Stop Loss added within a maximum of 2 minutes after the position is opened. On evaluation, only a warning is issued, On funded accounts, the first violation cancels the payout and the account.

Maximum Accounts

• Traders can purchase and operate multiple evaluations simultaneously. Funded accounts can be combined up to a maximum of $400,000.

VPN / VPS

• Using a VPN or VPS is allowed, but it is not recommended because it may affect internal tracking systems.
• VPN or VPS usage is strictly prohibited during the KYC/AML verification process. If a trader completes KYC while connected to a VPN or VPS, the account may not receive funding or may be deactivated.

Trading Idea / Risk Per Trading Idea

Classic, Ultra and Rapid accounts

• Traders may not risk more than 50% of the Daily Drawdown on a single trading idea. A Stop Loss must be added within a maximum of 2 minutes after opening the trade so the risk team can properly calculate the risk.

Flash, Power, Instant Standard and Instant Pro accounts

• Traders may not risk more than 1% of the initial account balance per trading idea. A Stop Loss must be added within a maximum of 2 minutes after opening the trade so the risk team can properly calculate the risk.

Elite Accounts

• Traders may not risk more than 2.50% on a trading idea. A Stop Loss (SL) must be added within a maximum of two minutes after opening the trade so the risk team can properly calculate the risk.
• A trading idea refers to one or multiple trades on the same instrument, in the same direction, based on the same analysis or market opportunity. Multiple trades may be considered part of the same trading idea if they are opened on the same asset, in the same direction, and within a maximum interval of 30 minutes between each other.
• Risk is calculated based on the highest risk defined by the Stop Loss.
• Violation of the risk per trading idea rule on the evaluation is a warning and on funded accounts, the first violation cancels the payout and the account.

Maximum Lot Exposure

• $5K: Forex 3 lots | Commodities/Metals 0.5 lots | Indexes 5 lots
• $10K: Forex 6 lots | Commodities/Metals 1 lot | Indexes 10 lots
• $25K: Forex 10 lots | Commodities/Metals 1.8 lots | Indexes 20 lots
• $50K: Forex 20 lots | Commodities/Metals 4 lots | Indexes 40 lots
• $100K: Forex 35 lots | Commodities/Metals 7 lots | Indexes 70 lots
• Breaching these limits may result in reduced leverage, daily trade limits, lot size caps, stricter daily loss limits, 1% max risk rule, or permanent exclusion.

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Forbidden Strategies

The following strategies are not allowed:

• High-Frequency Trading, trades lasting less than 60 seconds, grid trading, arbitrage trading, hedge trading, Group Hedging, latency trading, reverse trading, tick scalping, hyperactivity, Account Churning, Gambling/Betting Behavior, Trade Stacking, Overleveraging.
• WSFunded reserves the right to close the account immediately if any prohibited strategy is detected.

1-Step Power Platform & Access Restrictions

• The Power One Phase program is available exclusively on MT5 and is not accessible to users located in Spain and Andorra. Using VPNs, proxies, or any similar method to bypass this restriction is strictly prohibited and may result in account cancellation without refund, as well as a permanent access ban.

Inactivity Rule

• You must place a trade within 30 days to keep your account active and avoid suspension.

1-Step (Funded), Instant Lite & Instant Elite 1.5% Risk Per Trade Idea

• A trade idea consists of the initial position and any positions opened in the same direction on the same instrument and within 10 minutes after closing a losing trade, with the combined loss across all such positions not exceeding 1.5% of the initial account balance. Violation is a hard breach. Adjustable to 2% with add-on

Flex 1-Step 1% Risk Per Trade Idea - Evaluation & Funded

• A trade idea consists of the initial position and any positions opened in the same direction on the same instrument and within 10 minutes after closing a losing trade, with the combined loss across all such positions not exceeding 1% of the initial account balance.
• 1st Violation: Soft breach - positions are closed, the violation is recorded, and the account continues
• 2nd Violation: Hard breach - Account closed
• Soft breach counts are independent per phase and reset upon passing the evaluation, so evaluation soft breaches don't carry over to the funded account.

Drawdown Adjustment Rule for Instant Accounts

• The Max Drawdown does not reset after a withdrawal. If your max loss is locked and you withdraw most or all profits, your account may be left with little to no buffer.

News Trading

• Instant Lite, Instant Elite, 1-Step & Prime 2-Step

  • Traders must not open or close trades 2 minutes before and 2 minutes after high-impact (red folder) news events on both evaluation and earning accounts.
  • This restriction applies to trade execution and closure, even if a trade was placed before and the take-profit (TP) gets triggered during the restricted timeframe.
  • Stop-Loss Exception: If a position was opened more than 6 hours before the news release and it incurs a stop-loss hit during the News Trading Window, it will be allowed.

• Flex 1-Step

  • Opening or closing a position 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after high-impact news event is not permitted on both evaluation and funded accounts, covering both scheduled releases and unscheduled market-moving events such as major political speeches. Holding through news is allowed.
  • Violations are recorded regardless of outcome.
  • Strike 1: profit deducted.
  • Strike 2: profit deducted and split reduced from 85% to 60%.
  • Strike 3: hard breach - account closed.
  • Strikes do not reset when you pass the evaluation, they are cumulative and carry over from evaluation to funded.

Flex 1- Step 60% Profit-Target Concentration

• There are no minimum trading days with the Flex 1-step, but if one trade idea exceeds 60% of the profit target during the evaluation, 4 minimum profitable days of 0.5% profit each day will be applied on the funded account before your 1st payout.

Copy Trading

• Allowed, personal accounts only.

• Blueberry Funded’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 Blueberry Funded’s internal copy trading feature, PF1 empowers users to manage trades across multiple firms, enhancing scalability and trading efficiency without breaching Blueberry Funded’s core rules. For more details on this enhanced functionality, visit PropFirmOne.com.

EA Rule

• EAs are allowed only where you make the trading decisions and the EA merely assists with execution or management — including position sizers, risk calculators, partial-close managers, and self-developed EAs where you control the logic (you must be able to prove ownership of the source code).
• Any EA or automated system, paid or free, that independently generates signals or places trades on its own logic is prohibited, including all commercial and third-party EAs regardless of configuration.
• EAs are allowed on all Blueberry Funded products except Synthetic accounts.

Prohibited Strategies

• Latency Arbitrage
• Hedging (External)
• High-Frequency Trading
• Tick Scalping
• Toxic Trading Flow
• Bad Faith Trading
• Copy Trading with Third Parties
• Third-Party Account Management
• See details: https://help.blueberryfunded.com/en/articles/9714626-prohibited-strategies-after-march-12-2026

Copy Trading

• CFDs: Copy trading between a trader's owns the TTP accounts is allowed.
• Copying trades between Challenge & Earning accounts is allowed.

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• Allowed as long as they do not engage in prohibited trading activities:
  • Copy signals that are not yours
  • Perform latency/reverse/hedge/arbitrage or High Frequency Trading
  • Use emulators
  • Open trades or have pending orders 2 minutes before or after high-impact news releases ($100,000 and $200,000 CFD Prime Accounts)

News Trading

• CFDs: News trading is allowed for the 5,10,20 and 50K size and is prohibited 2 minutes before and after high-impact news events for the 100k and 200k size

Inactivity Rule

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

Gambling and Inconsistent Trading

• Traders must maintain consistent lot sizes to demonstrate disciplined and strategic trading practices.

Max Position Loss (Instant Funding)

• Maximum risk of all open positions on the same symbol is 1% of the starting balance for 5K-20K accounts and 0.5% of the starting balance for the 50K and 100K accounts.
• The first 2 violations are Soft Breaches; the 3rd is a Hard Breach and closes the account.

Minimum Trading Days

• 3 profitable days for CFD's Prime challenges.

Micro scalping

• Micro-scalping is opening and closing trades within 10–15 seconds to capture very small price movements and is prohibited, Around 40% or more of profitable trades held for 10–15 seconds or less is considered micro-scalping.

Gap Trading

• Opening trades within 2 hours of market close when the market will remain closed for 2 or more hours is not allowed.
• Placing trades ahead of major news, earnings announcements, or global events that are likely to cause price gaps is not allowed.

Grid strategy is prohibited.

Martingale strategy is prohibited.

Overleveraging and Overexposure is prohibited.

Hyperactivity

• Avoid making too many trades in a short time or making decisions impulsively.

One-sided Bets

• Avoid making trades predominantly in one direction without comprehensive market analysis.

Read more about prohibited practices here:

• https://support.thetradingpit.com/prohibited-trading-practices

Drawdown Lock for 1-Step 100K, 200K & 2-Step 100K

• Max drawdown starts as EOD trailing and trails upward based on end-of-day balance. Once it reaches the starting balance, it locks and becomes static for the remainder of the account.

News Trading

• BEM One (Funded): Opening or closing trades is prohibited from 4 minutes before until 4 minutes after a high-impact news release

• BEM Classic (Evaluation and Funded): Opening or closing trades is prohibited from 4 minutes before until 4 minutes after a high-impact news release

• BEM Classic Swing (Evaluation and Funded): Opening or closing trades is prohibited from 4 minutes before until 4 minutes after a high-impact news release

  • Trades opened at least 8 hours before a high-impact news event may remain open and be managed normally during the news window

• Cryptocurrency pairs: Not subject to any news trading restrictions

• BEM One Only program: News trading is allowed without restrictions

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is allowed between your own personal accounts and between multiple BEM Trader funded accounts, provided all trades originate from accounts you own

• Copy trading between evaluation accounts is not permitted, and each evaluation account must be traded independently

Inactivity

• If no trades are placed within 30 days of your account purchase or after the last trade, your account will be automatically closed

Multiple Challenges and Strategy Restrictions

• You may participate in multiple challenges simultaneously

• During the Challenge and Consistency phases, you must not open trades across your own accounts using the same strategy

Risk Limit

• During the funded stage, the maximum risk on any single trading pair must not exceed 1.2% of the initial account balance

• This rule applies to Classic Normal, Classic Swing, and One accounts

Equity Guard

• During the funded stage, the combined risk exposure across all open positions must not exceed 2% of the initial account balance

• This rule applies to One Only accounts only

Weekend Holding

• Weekend holding is allowed during evaluation

• Holding trades over the weekend or through a market rollover period longer than 2 hours is prohibited in the funded stage on all programs except the BEM Classic Swing and BEM One Only program

Prohibited Practices

• Bulk or Mass Trading Activity: Opening multiple trades simultaneously or in rapid succession in a manner that indicates automated or non-discretionary execution

• Bracketing Strategies: Placing pending buy and sell orders around the market price ahead of major news releases to capture volatility spikes

• Gambling or One-Sided Trading Behavior: Trading behavior that resembles gambling, such as oversized positions, repeated one-directional exposure, or attempts to pass an evaluation through a small number of high-risk trades

• Martingale strategies

• Hedging & Opposing Positions: Opening opposing positions on the same symbol (or highly correlated symbols), either within a single account or across multiple accounts, in a manner intended to manipulate performance metrics or bypass risk limits

• Other prohibited practices: https://bemfunding.com/prohibitedTradingPractices