Prop Firm Rules

Minimum Trading Days

None across all programs

Stop Loss Rule

• If you fail to place a stop loss at the time of placing an order or executing a trade, the system will automatically close the trade - soft breach | Removable with add-on except on DXtrade platform

News Trading

• News trading is allowed, but opening large positions around high-impact news events is prohibited and may violate their terms under the All-or-Nothing prohibited trading strategy

Expert Advisor

• EAs are permitted, but no public API is released for platform access — any connections are made at the trader's own risk. EAs must support the firm's platform instances. EAs designed for High-Frequency Trading (HFT) or arbitrage are strictly prohibited.

Copy Trading

Allowed

• Allowed between Lark funded / Instant funding accounts.
• Allowed between Lark funded/Instant funding accounts, Other prop firms and personal accounts owend by the same person.
• Copy Trading from an External Account(other Propfirm or Personal Accounts) Is Allowed, but Only to a Single Evaluation Account at a Time
• Copy trading from a Lark funded/Instant funding accounts to a single Lark evaluation account is allowed.

Not Allowed

• Copy trading between multiple evaluation accounts is not allowed.
• Copy trading from accounts not owned by the same person is strictly prohibited
• Lark funding's partnership with PropFirm 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 Lark funding’s internal copy trading feature, PF1 empowers users to manage trades across multiple firms, enhancing scalability and trading efficiency without breaching Lark funding’s core rules. For more details on this enhanced functionality, visit PropFirmOne.com.

Inactivity:

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

Gain Limit:

• Daily and/or per-trade gains exceeding $10,000 (calculated at 5 PM EST) trigger the following actions:

Challenge Accounts:

• One violation results in restarting Phase 1 with no refund but a free evaluation.

Simulated Funded Accounts:

• Gains above $10,000 are excluded from payouts. Three violations lead to account breach with no payout.
• Trades executed at similar times or partially closed count as a single trade.
• Gains made across multiple phases on a single day will be considered toward the daily gain limit.

1-Step Max Risk Per Trade Idea:

• Evaluation - 1% (Soft breach) | Funded - 1% (Hard breach)

General Recommended Risk Limit:

• Maximum risk per simulated trade idea is 1.5%
• A trade idea refers to similar trades, meaning those placed in the same direction on the same instrument, opened and closed within a short interval of 1 to 2 minutes.

Margin Limit:

• Overall margin utilization must not exceed the following limits: Forex, 50%; Metals, 50%; Indices, 75%; Oils, 75%; Crypto, 75%; Stocks, 75%.

Weekend Holding | Crypto Trading On Weekends

• Not allowed except purchased with hold over the weekend add-on
• For those who purchase the weekend-holding upgrade, crypto trading will remain available during the weekend except for a temporary break between 5-6 pm EST and a 4-hour break from 9 am-1 pm EST on Saturday mornings.

All-or-nothing trading:

• This Refers to a Style of Trading Where a Trader Could Breach or Come Close to Breaching the Drawdown Limits in a Single Trade Due to the Large Volume of Positions, Lots Executed or Margin Utilization, This Practice Is Prohibited
• Holding Into Earnings, Dividends, or Other Corporate Actions
• Holding Single Share Equity CFD positions through earnings releases, dividends, or any corporate action is strictly prohibited. All such positions must be closed by 3:50 PM ET on the day of the event (or the prior trading day if the event is pre-market). Violation results in an immediate hard breach and any gain or loss on the position will be removed.

More on Prohibited trading strategies

• All-or-Nothing & Gambling-Based Trading, High-Frequency Trading, Reverse Trading(between different accounts) / Group Hedging, Unauthorized Copy Trading, Holding Into Earnings, Dividends, or Other Corporate Actions, Martingale

see details:

• https://larkfunding.com/help/trading-rules-guidelines/prohibited-trading-strategies

VPN/VPS Policy Explained

• https://larkfunding.com/help/trading-rules-guidelines/can-i-use-a-vpn

1-Step Career and 1-Step Max Smart Restart Guarantee

• Each Evaluation comes with 4 attempts. If your first attempt fails but you traded within the risk parameters, you get a free restart — no cost.

To qualify:

• No Single Trade Loss Greater Than 1% of Account Balance
• Overall Drawdown Stays Better Than -5%
• A ""Surrender Account"" button appears in your dashboard once eligible. Clicking it surrenders the account and generates a 100% discount code for a new Evaluation.

Key notes:

• Can Be Used Up to 3 Times Per Purchased Evaluation
• If Drawdown Briefly Exceeds -5% but Recovers, You May Still Qualify As Long As No Single Trade Exceeded 1%
• Discount Code Is Valid Once Per Purchased Evaluation

Lark Funding Special Futures Explained

• https://larkfunding.com/help/special-features

GENERAL RULES

Minimum Trading Days

Lightning, Dual (intraday/swing) & Nexus

Evaluation:

• 3 trading days.

Funded:

• 3 profitable days with at least 0.5% profit based on your starting balance for that day, and your overall account balance is above the initial starting balance.

Bolt(Instant Funding):

• None

Impact on Payouts:

• For every payout interval, you must meet the Minimum Profitable Trading Days requirement to qualify for payout.

Expert Advisor (EAs):

• ThinkCapital supports automated trading and Expert Advisors on all account types, provided the tools are compatible with the ThinkTrader platform. Users must contact support via email to notify them of third-party software usage, as the platform may require a review of the strategy for compliance.

Copy Trading

• Traders are allowed to use copy trading between Think Capital accounts. To use copy trading between your other prop firm accounts and Personal accounts, you must use your Think Capital account as the master account. However, ThinkTrader does not have the functionality of traditional Expert Advisors (Trade copiers) in the same way as MT5. Trade Copiers compatible with ThinkTrader can be used for copy trading.

Inactivity Rule:

• You must place at least one trade every 30 days to keep your account active. Failure to do so will result in account termination with no refund for challenge accounts and no payouts for funded accounts.

Gambling & Reckless Trading Policy

• ThinkCapital strictly prohibit any trading behavior that resembles gambling or reckless betting. Trading must be approached professionally, with sound risk management and consistency.
• Gambling behavior includes overleveraging, all-in trades, doubling down after losses (Martingale), overexposure to correlated assets, excessive high-frequency scalping, punting (placing a few high-risk trades hoping for quick wins), “coinflip” trading patterns, and account rolling.
• Accounts showing such behavior may receive warnings, profit deductions, resets, suspension, or permanent termination sometimes without prior notice if risk is extreme. See Details: https://www.thinkcapital.com/faqs/general-faqs/what-are-thinkcapitals-guidelines-regarding-gambling-or-reckless-trading-behavior-on-the-platform/

Prohibited Trading practices/strategies:

• Copy Trading(between Accounts Not Owned by the Same Person), Grid Trading, Hedging or Group Hedging Across Multiple Accounts, Collusion Between Users, Account Sharing/account Management/account Sale, Latency Arbitrage, High-Frequency Trading (HFT), Abuse of a Delayed Data Feed, Abuse of the Simulated Environment, Trading on Delayed Charts, Unauthorized Use of Expert Advisors (EAs), Challenge Passing Services, Martingale Trading, Use of Guarantee of Compliance with Limit Orders, Trading in Sanctioned Countries, Exploiting Platform or Data Freezing Due to Technical Errors, News Trading(within Restricted Window), Order Layering, Gambling/punting and Account Churning.
• See Details: Https://www.thinkcapital.com/faqs/general-Faqs/guidelines-Regarding-Trading-Strategies-Contrary-To-Thinkcapitals-Terms-Of-Use-Policy/

Think Capital Penalties:

• https://www.thinkcapital.com/faqs/penalties-faq-section/penalties-faq-section/

VPN/VPS Policy:

• VPN use is generally prohibited. Multiple users on one account or unapproved automation is strictly forbidden. VPN/VPS use during KYC/AML verification is not allowed and may lead to account denial or breach.
• You’re permitted to use a VPS from ForexVPS for running your algos and EAs non-stop without disruption, but it’s crucial to ensure compliance with Terms and Condition.

Dynamic Leverage & News Event Multiplier

• During selected economic events, margin requirements may be multiplied for affected instruments.
• This change applies only to new positions opened during the event window; existing positions keep their original margin requirements
• Leverage automatically returns to normal once the event window ends
• ​Regional Account Type Eligibility: Clients based in Malaysia, Pakistan, Cambodia, and Indonesia are only eligible and allowed to purchase a BOLT (Instant Funding) account. All other challenge types — Dual Step, Lightning, and Nexus — are not allowed for clients from these regions.

BOLT (Instant Funding)

News Trading

• News trading is strictly prohibited on Bolt accounts. No trading activity (including pending orders, SL, and TP) is allowed within 5 minutes before or after high-impact (Red Folder) news events. Any activity during this window results in immediate account termination and profit forfeiture.

Overnight Holding:

• Allowed

Weekend Holding:

• Prohibited - All trades must be closed before Friday 21:00 UTC. Violation is a hard breach and immediate account termination.
• Allowed with add-on
• Cryptocurrency trading is not available on Bolt accounts. Bolt traders may trade Forex, Commodities, and Indices only.

LIGHTNING (1 - STEP) & NEXUS (3-STEP) CHALLENGE

News Trading Policy

• News trading is strictly prohibited on both Challenge and Funded accounts. No trades (including limit and stop orders) may be executed within 2 minutes before or after a high-impact (Red Folder) news event Trades opened before the window may be held, but no account activity (opening, closing, SL, or TP hits) is allowed during this window. Any activity in this window results in immediate termination of the funded agreement, account cancellation, and forfeiture of profits. Red Folder events are tracked via ForexFactory. ""All Day"" red folder events are not counted as restricted, as they have no specified release time.
• Exception: News Trading Add-On

Overnight | Weekend Holding/Trading(Crypto):

• Allowed

DUAL STEP INTRADAY (2 - STEP)

News Trading Policy

• News trading is strictly prohibited on both Challenge and Funded accounts. No trades (including limit and stop orders) may be executed within 2 minutes before or after a high-impact (Red Folder) news event Trades opened before the window may be held, but no account activity (opening, closing, SL, or TP hits) is allowed during this window. Any activity in this window results in immediate termination of the funded agreement, account cancellation, and forfeiture of profits. Red Folder events are tracked via ForexFactory. ""All Day"" red folder events are not counted as restricted, as they have no specified release time.
• Exception: None

Overnight Holding:

• Allowed

Weekend Holding/Trading(Crypto)

Evaluation Accounts:

• Weekend holding / trading is not permitted. However, if a trade is held over the weekend, it will not result in a hard breach

Funded Accounts:

• Prohibited - All Trades Must Be Manually Closed Before Friday 21:00 UTC. Violation Is a Hard Breach and Immediate Account Termination.

DUAL STEP SWING ( 2 - STEP)

News Trading Policy

Allowed With No Restrictions

Overnight | Weekend Holding/Trading(Crypto):

• Allowed

GENERAL RULES

News Trading

• Allowed without Restrictions

Stop-Loss

• Must be placed within 1 minute of opening a trade (soft breach if missed).
• System automatically closes the trade after 1 minute if no stop loss is placed.
• Any profits made without using a Stop Loss won't count toward your profit target objective.

Copy Trading

• Allowed Copy Trading
  You can copy trades as long as the CTI account used is the Master Account.

✓ CTI Master Account → Personal account with any broker.
✓ CTI Master Account → Other prop firms' accounts.
✓ Between Multiple CTI Accounts: You can copy trades across your CTI accounts with one of the accounts being the Master account.

• Not Allowed in Copy Trading
  CTI does not allow any form of third-party or outsourced trading.

✕ Copying trades from other prop firms into the CTI Account.
✕ Copying trades from the Personal account into the CTI Account.
✕ Copying other traders using social trading tools, platforms, or software.
✕ Using a prop firm challenge pass service to trade on your behalf.
✕ Sharing the same expert advisors (EAs) with other traders.

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

Expert Advisors

• On the 1-Step Challenge, any third-party EA may be used, though widely distributed EAs risk a coordinated trading violation.
• On the 2-Step, Instant Funding, and Direct Funding programs, you must own the EA, provide its source code on request, and demonstrate it reflects your own strategy.
• Prohibited across all programs: HFT, tick/micro-scalping, arbitrage (latency, reverse, hedge), and bots exploiting price feeds, rollover, news spikes, or pricing inefficiencies.

Inactivity Rule

• 30 Days inactivity Period, place a trade once in 30 days, violation results to account termination

Overnight | Weekend Holding/Trading (Crypto)

• Allowed

Risk Parameters

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

Prohibited Trading Practices

• Exploit Price Inefficiencies / Price Feed Errors
• Group Hedging / Hedging / Group Trading / NOT Allowed Copy Trading
• Account Sharing / Reselling of Account / Account Management
• One-Sided Bets
• Gamble to Pass / Over-Leveraging:
• Using extremely high risk on 1 trade idea.
• Risking the entire drawdown limit in one go.
• Risking the whole account on a single trade idea.
• Exceeding a 150% Margin level. (Note: Trades Profit will not be counted)
• Certain EA Types | Using EAs 3rd-Party EAs (Excluding the 1-Step Challenge)
• Bracketing Strategies
• Martingale Trading Style (Excluding the 1-Step Challenge)
• Grid Trading
• See Details: https://helpcenter.citytradersimperium.com/en/articles/12879492-prohibited-trading-methods

IP | VPN | VPS Policies

• VPNs, proxies, and IP-masking services are prohibited.
• Change in IP Address is Allowed. But CTI monitors suspicious patterns using IP, device and behavior data
• A VPS may only be used when trading with an Expert Advisor (EA) or for Copy Trading Purposes.
• Device Limitations:
  • Trading is limited to 2 devices (PC and mobile).
  • Additional device use requires approval with proof via video call.
  • Unauthorized device use results in account termination without a refund.
• IP, VPS, VPN, & Max Number of Devices Explained: https://helpcenter.citytradersimperium.com/en/articles/12879311-ip-vps-vpn-max-number-of-devices-allowed-to-use

Specific Country Restrictions

• Vietnam is restricted for 2-Step Challenge & Direct Funding

2-Step Max Allocation Note

• To become eligible to get funded on a second $100K Account on the 2-Step Challenge, you must be funded with your first $100K account and have had at least one payout. Once you receive your first payout, you can get funded with the 2nd $100K account.

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1-STEP & 2-STEP

Minimum Trading Days

• Evaluation: At least 3 profitable trading days for each phase, each with a minimum of 0.5% profit
• Funding: At least 7 profitable trading days, each with a minimum of 0.5% profit on First Payout only.

INSTANT FUNDING & DIRECT FUNDING

Minimum Trading Days

• At least 5 profitable trading days, each with a minimum of 0.5% profit on first payout only.

Instant Funding Structure

• Level 1: The Instant Funding Program have an Initial Balance (e.g; $5000) which is half the Fully Funded Balance (e.g; $10,000).
• Once you achieve a 10% profit on that Initial Balance, CTI immediately adds the remaining 50% to your account. This "completes" your funding, moving you to the Fully Funded Balance - Level 2

Minimum Trading Days

Turbo Trade & leveraged ONE

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

Sprint

• None

Junior, Senior & Executive

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

Account Limits

• Multiple accounts may be held, provided the aggregated balance of all active accounts does not exceed the maximum allowed for that portfolio type. Duplicate or additional registrations used to exceed that entitlement, or to farm payouts, are prohibited.

News Trading

• Executing orders (including TP, SL, and limit orders) within 5 minutes before and 5 minutes after high-impact news event on affected pairs is prohibited on all account types except Sprint. Any profits made within this window will be removed, as a soft breach. Frequent and severe violation may result in account reset, trading restrictions or account termination.
• The official source for tracked high-impact news releases and exact timings is the calendar located in your Leveraged Dashboard.

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• EAs are permitted only if they are risk management tools (stop-loss, take-profit, trailing stop, position sizing), copy trading EAs where you solely manage all linked accounts, or self-developed EAs built and controlled by you that don't fall under prohibited strategies. Commercial EAs — purchased, rented, licensed, or publicly distributed — are strictly prohibited, regardless of modifications.
• Self-developed EA may be fully automated.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is permitted across your own accounts, whether held with Leveraged, another prop firm, or a retail broker. Copy trading between accounts owned by different individuals (including family or friends) is strictly prohibited.
• Overnight & Weekend Holding | Crypto Trading on Weekend
• Holding positions overnight and over the weekend is permitted, including crypto. Positions opened or maintained primarily to profit from an anticipated price gap when a market reopens after an overnight, weekend or other scheduled closure are prohibited.

2-Minute Holding Rule

• Every trade must remain open for at least 2 minutes from execution. Occasional early closes due to volatility or manual error are generally tolerated, but frequent violations will be flagged by the Risk Team and may result in account termination.

Inactivity Rule

• Accounts inactive for more than 30 days are considered dormant and are closed. At least one trade must be opened within every 30-day period to keep the account active.

Prohibited Strategies

Execution abuse and technical exploitation

• High-frequency trading, tick scalping, and repetitive micro-duration trading, Latency arbitrage and exploitation of stale prices, delayed feeds, or off-market pricing, excessive order submission, modification, or cancellation, server spam, or platform stress.

News, Event, and Market-Closure Exploitation

• Trading within the restricted high-impact news window, news straddling/bracketing, volatility-sniping around releases, layered/opposing/conditional pending-order structures for event movement, and gap trading on market reopen after closures.

Hedging, Coordinated, Mirrored, and Cross-Account Trading

• Holding offsetting or hedged positions within the same account overnight, hedged/reverse/opposite positions across different accounts, copy trading or mirrored execution between different individuals, and coordinated groups, shared infrastructure, or networks that neutralize market risk while preserving payout upside — whether within Leveraged, other prop firms, retail brokers, signal groups, or trade copiers.

Third-Party Control and Signal Copying

• Signal copying and externally dictated entries/exits, managed-account/pass-your-account/rented-strategy arrangements, running a strategy that isn't your own (including purchased or third-party EAs), and trade copiers or shared trading rooms where you aren't the true originator.

Program Gaming and Payout Farming

• Rolling exposure across accounts, firms, or brokers to run excessive combined risk, structuring trades primarily to meet payout-eligibility rather than to trade genuinely, account churning or using accounts as disposable payout-extraction units, and sequencing all-or-nothing risk across accounts to harvest payouts statistically.

Trade-Idea Concentration and Payout-Metric Manipulation

• Splitting or re-timing positions to disguise the size, risk, or concentration of one trade idea, closing and reopening exposure to reset or obscure risk, and structuring partial closes, trade timing, or artificial profitable days to manipulate consistency, profit-distribution, or payout-eligibility metrics.

Grid, Martingale, and Recovery Trading

• Grid trading, martingale or anti-martingale escalation, increasing size or exposure after losses primarily to recover them, and repeated averaging into losing exposure without a genuine discretionary thesis.

Multiple-Account and Identity Abuse

• Duplicate or additional registrations used to farm payouts or exceed entitlement, trading under another person's identity (or letting another trade under yours), and concealing identity, ownership, funding source, account control, device control, or strategy control.

System and Integrity Abuse

• Exploiting system errors, bugs, display issues, delayed data, or abnormal pricing, using software or workflows that manipulate or misuse the platform, and circumventing geographical, technical, identity, ownership, or security restrictions.
• See details

If you cross the line

• Responses are based on severity, repetition, evidence, and context, and may include:
• Risk review or request for information, verification, or an interview.
• Removal of affected profits or exclusion of trades from payout eligibility.
• Payout denial.
• Restriction of trading permissions or payout eligibility.
• Conditions on continued access.
• Account termination.
• Refusal of future services.
• Any other action under the Terms and Conditions.

Note:

• Not every case is handled the same way — some trigger a review while clear cases may result in immediate action. Warnings or interviews are not guaranteed, and a prior payout or lack of prior contact does not mean activity has been approved.

VPN/VPS/IP Policy

• VPN and VPS use is permitted, provided you remain the verified account holder with sole control of all trading activity. They may be used for stable connections or running self-developed EAs.

Prohibited:

• sharing access, concealing identity or location, bypassing geographic/security restrictions, or facilitating group trading or copy-trading networks. Leveraged may request IP logs to verify genuine ownership.

90-Day Time Limit

• Traders have a 90-day time limit from the subscription date to complete the calibration stage.
• This period may be extended if traders are actively trading.

Copy Trading

• Allowed.

EAs (Expert Advisors)

• Allowed.

News Trading

• Allowed.

Weekend holding

• All trades must be closed by 3:45 PM EST on Fridays. Trades left open will be automatically closed, resulting in a soft breach, but trading can resume when markets reopen. Traders can opt for an add-on at checkout to enable weekend holding.

Daily profit cap (2 million account size)

• The daily profit cap limits your gains to 2.5% of your account balance per day. Any profits above this level won't count toward your objectives

Inactivity

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

Drawdown After Withdrawal

• When a withdrawal is approved, your Maximum Drawdown locks at your starting balance and does not reset thereafter. If you withdraw the full amount of gains in your Funded Account, your balance will return to the starting balance. Since the Maximum Drawdown is locked at that level, this will trigger a Maximum Drawdown breach and result in forfeiture of the Funded Account.

News trading

• Traders are restricted from opening new positions within a 6-minute window 3 minutes before and 3 minutes after the event

News trading

• You can’t open a position within 3 minutes before and after a news event, but holding one through is fine.

EAs, Hedging and Scalping

• All permitted.
• Hedging must be within a single account only.

Prohibited Practices

• Using one strategy to pass the assessment and another strategy to trade the funded stage is not allowed.
• Utilizing any third-party strategy, off-the-shelf strategy or one marketed to pass challenge accounts

GENERAL RULES

Minimum Trading Days

• Instant Funding lite, One stage PRO, One-Step, Two-Step and Three-Step: None
• One-Step Lite and Two-Step Lite: Evaluation & Funded: 3 Profitable days of 1%

Weekend Holding/Trading (Crypto)

• Restricted, all trades to be closed by 15:45 EST. Any positions open at this time will be closed automatically, at a potentially unfavorable price, due to thin liquidity at the end of the week.
• Allowed with Add-On.
• Weekend Holding add-on not available on the Instant Funding Lite

News Trading

• Holding existing positions through a news event is allowed.
• Opening a new position within 3 minutes before or after a High Impact News Event on all instruments is prohibited.
• Violation leads to profit deduction, leverage reduction or account termination after a series of violations.

Evaluation Limits

• You are permitted to purchase and participate in only one evaluation of a specific account size and a specific plan type at a time, regardless of trading platform.

• Example: You can have one 100k One Step Plan and one 100k Two Step Plan active, simultaneously. However, you cannot have one 100k One Step Plan on DXtrade and another 100k One Step Plan, regardless of platform.

Copy Trading Rule

• Allowed only between accounts owned by the same trader. Group trading, signal services, passing services, third-party strategies, or EAs for copy trading are strictly prohibited.

EA's

• EAs are allowed, provided they are personally owned. Third-party or shared EAs are prohibited.

Risk Management Rules

• "All-in" trading is not allowed—using all margin and max lot size on one symbol or correlated symbols is prohibited.
• Exploitative strategies, such as risking full margin in a single trade, are strictly prohibited.
• More Prohibited strategies include high frequency trading, community trading, prop firm passing services, cross account hedging.
• See details: https://nordicfunder.com/prohibited-trading-practices/

Inactivity Rule

• Accounts become inactive after 30 days of no trading activity.
• Instant Funding Lite Inactivity: 14 days

Edge Score

• The Edge score is a personalized, numerical metric used to assess your performance in the Axi Select program. It leverages advanced analytics to evaluate key aspects of your trading and identifies areas for improvement, with the ultimate goal of guiding you toward increased funding eligibility as you advance through the program. A higher Edge score translates to more funding opportunities.

How does the Edge score work

• The Edge score is a weighted average of three key trading components: Skill, Consistency, and Risk, which is then multiplied by a discount factor based on your Experience.

Skill

• Measure your ability to generate the profits while effectively managing drawdowns.

Consistency

• Reflect your ability to achieve consistent gains, which showcases your understanding of market dynamics.

Risk

• Evaluate your proficiency in managing risks effectively.

Experience

• Assesses whether you meet minimum criteria for displaying credible trading experience.

• The higher your edge score, the greater your eligibility for funding as you progress in the program.

There are different Edge Score for the different stage available

• Seed stage: Edge score is 50

• Incubation stage: Edge score is 60

• Acceleration stage: Edge score is 70

• Pro stage: Edge score is 90

• Pro 500 stage: Edge score is 90

• Pro M stage: Edge score is 90

Note: When you reach the 14% profit target and the minimum required trades in the Seed Stage, you can skip to the next level (available only in the Seed Stage).

There is a minimum number of total trades you must make within the current stage before you can progress to the next stage, listed below is the trades per stage

• Seed stage: Trades per stage is 20

• Incubation stage: Trades per stage is 40

• Acceleration stage: Trades per stage is 50

• Pro stage: Trades per stage is 50

• Pro 500 stage: Trades per stage is 50

Minimum Equity

• The minimum amount of equity needed to begin the stage. If you withdraw funds from your account, you must ensure you have this minimum equity to stay in the program.

• Seed stage: $500

• Incubation stage: $1,000

• Acceleration stage: $2,000

• Pro stage: $5,000

• Pro 500 stage: $10,000

• Pro M stage: $20,000

Inactivity Rule

• All accounts will be deactivated after 30 days of inactivity. To avoid deactivation, log in and maintain an active connection.

Buffer Rule (Instant Lite)

• The first 3% profit generated on the account cannot be requested as a reward. This will act as a safety buffer to protect your account from hitting the 3% daily loss limit when requesting a reward.

Profit Lock Rule

• Requesting a payout locks your max loss at the starting balance. The remaining portion acts as a buffer, while withdrawing the full profit leads to a breach in the Enhanced, Express, and Instant Programs.

Maximum Open Risk

• A maximum open risk of 3% applies to all funded accounts and Instant Funding. At any given time, the total potential loss across one or multiple open positions must not exceed 3% of the starting balance.
• For Instant Lite and Instant24 accounts, the maximum open risk is 1%.

Maximum Open Trades (Instant24):

• Only one position may be open at any time. If more than one trade is opened, that trade will be automatically close and this will constitute a Soft Breach.

Trade Idea Restriction (Instant24):

• Opening multiple small trades on the same underlying trade idea in order to artificially improve your consistency score or bypass the maximum open risk rule is prohibited.
• Opening a trade in the same direction and in the same product less than 5 minutes after the previous trade was closed would be classified as the same trade idea. If this behavior is identified, it is considered a Hard Breach.

News Trading

• News trading is allowed during evaluation stages, but not allowed 3 minutes before and after high impact news in funded stages and Instant funding accounts.
• News trading is allowed on Instant24 without restriction.

Expert Advisors

• EAs are not allowed in Instant Funding accounts.

Copy Trading

• Allowed, personal accounts only.

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

Weekend Holding

• Weekend holding is not allowed in the instant funding program

Scalping

• This is defined as trades held for less than 3 minutes in duration. Total scalped profits cannot exceed 30% of total profits.

Overleveraging

• Overleveraging, overexposure, and one-sided bets—defined as continuously adding to losing trades resulting in high margin levels against a single symbol or correlated.

All or Nothing Trading

• Trading behavior that involves risking the entire daily loss limit—or a substantial portion of it—on a single trade or across multiple concurrent trades.

Account Rolling

• This is the practice of aggressively operating multiple accounts in a short period to pass or fail them, with full account history taken into consideration, this practice is strictly prohibited.

Max allocation

• The maximum total allocation is $400,000. Traders may hold one Instant account and up to three Instant24 accounts simultaneously. Instant24 accounts do not count toward the one-account Instant limit.