Latency, gap or external-feed trading
Terms, clause 20.2
Our simulated prices come from third-party market data. Like any feed, it can lag by a few milliseconds, freeze briefly, or print a price that no longer exists on the real market. Trading deliberately on those moments is not a strategy, it is an exploitation of the simulation.
This covers: trading on delayed or stale quotes; exploiting a known difference between our feed and another faster or slower one; latency arbitrage; intentionally trading during a feed freeze; and execution timing designed to capture a simulation delay rather than genuine market risk.
It also covers gap and abnormal-print exploitation: deliberately targeting illiquid moments, erroneous prints or synthetic gaps that could not reasonably be obtained in a functioning market.
How we tell the difference: we look at whether the trade carried real market risk. A directional trade taken seconds before a release carries risk. A trade whose entry and exit both sit inside a price the market never actually offered does not.
Riskless arbitrage
Terms, clause 20.4
Strategies whose primary purpose is to extract simulated profit from platform or pricing mechanics rather than from a market view are prohibited. This includes cross-account arbitrage, feed arbitrage and execution arbitrage.
This is not a ban on relative-value trading. A pairs trade, a spread between two correlated instruments, or a carry position all bear genuine market risk and remain fully allowed. The line is whether the profit depends on a market outcome or on a mechanical difference we would not have on a real book.
High-frequency trading and bots
Terms, clause 20.6
Automated systems that independently place, modify or close trades are prohibited unless we have expressly approved that specific use in writing for that account. High-frequency execution, quote stuffing, mass order placement, excessive cancellation and server hyperactivity are prohibited.
As an objective safety ceiling, more than 2,000 order or modification requests in a server day, or more than 200 simultaneously active orders and positions, may trigger an immediate restriction and a review. A lower level can also be abusive depending on its purpose.
Semi-automated tools that help you place a trade you decided on, such as a risk calculator or a one-click execution panel, are not prohibited. What is prohibited is a system that decides for you at a scale a human could not reproduce.
Copy trading and third-party signals
Terms, clause 20.7
You must not copy, mirror or systematically replicate another person's trades, a trade feed, a signal room, a third-party account, a commercial signal service or another prop firm account, manually or automatically.
This includes substantially identical entries and exits produced through shared signals when the trader is not exercising independent decision-making. The evaluation measures your decisions, not your ability to relay someone else's.
Reading analysis, following a community, or trading an idea you saw elsewhere is not copy trading. The test is whether you decided, sized and timed the trade yourself.
Account sharing and passing services
Terms, clause 20.8
No third party may operate, manage or direct your account. You may not buy or sell challenge-passing services, funded-account management or remote execution. You may not trade another person's A-Book Funded account.
Accounts are personal and non-transferable. One person, one identity. This is not administrative pedantry: the whole point of the evaluation is to identify a trader we might later replicate with our own capital. An account traded by someone else tells us nothing.
Shared household or workplace internet access is not automatically a breach. We look at the full picture, and we give you a reasonable opportunity to explain a legitimate overlap before deciding anything.
Cross-account hedging
Terms, clause 20.9
You must not open or coordinate opposite or offsetting exposures across your own accounts, another person's accounts, or accounts held with another firm, in order to neutralise economic risk while making one account pass or collect a reward.
The mechanism is simple and deterministic: two opposite accounts, one always wins. Nothing is being evaluated, and the reward comes straight out of the payout reserve that funds every other trader.
Ordinary hedging inside a single account is permitted where the program and the platform allow it, provided it is not used to circumvent another rule.
Group trading and collusion
Terms, clause 20.10
Coordinated entries and exits, position splitting, opposing bets, shared-account strategies and group schemes designed to manipulate evaluation outcomes, loss limits, consistency, promotions or reward eligibility are prohibited.
Enforcement here is evidence-based. A statistical similarity, a shared IP or an unusual result can justify a review, but none of them proves collusion on its own. A human reviews the account data, records the rule relied on, and considers any explanation you give.
Martingale and loss compounding
Terms, clause 20.11
A systematic increase in monetary risk because a preceding trade or trade idea lost is prohibited when it is used as a loss-recovery mechanism.
Examples: doubling or progressively increasing size after losses; adding to a losing position purely to improve the average price; grid-style adverse accumulation; and serial recovery trades whose risk escalates with prior losses.
Normal position-size changes are not prohibited merely because sizes differ. If your sizing follows an independent fixed-risk or volatility model, and the size of a trade does not depend on whether the last one lost, you are fine.
All-in behaviour and account rolling
Terms, clause 20.12
Repeated one-sided bets, materially disproportionate positions, deliberate all-in behaviour, rapid account cycling, and extreme-risk trades taken primarily because the fee rather than trading capital is at stake may be treated as abusive when they are inconsistent with sustainable market trading.
The reasoning is the same as the consistency rule. We are trying to find out how you trade, not whether one of twelve accounts got lucky.
Artificial fragmentation
Terms, clause 20.13
You must not split one trade idea into multiple tickets, symbols, accounts or days where the primary purpose is to avoid a risk-per-trade, consistency, exposure, order-count or trading-day rule.
We aggregate substantially related trades when we analyse the rules. Three tickets opened within a minute on the same symbol, in the same direction, are one trade idea for the 1% risk rule.
Multiple identities and promotion abuse
Terms, clause 20.14
You must not create multiple identities, use nominees, recycle accounts, stack promotions, self-refer through fabricated identities, or coordinate purchases to circumvent account allocation, discount, geographic, risk or eligibility limits.
Holding several accounts is allowed within our published allocation limits. What is prohibited is holding them under names that are not yours.
Identity and device abuse
Terms, clause 20.15
False identity documents, altered KYC records, borrowed identities, device spoofing, remote access used to conceal the real trader, emulator farms and coordinated shared VPS clusters designed to mask common control are prohibited.
Using a VPS or a VPN is not in itself a breach. Plenty of traders use both for perfectly ordinary reasons. It becomes a breach when it is used to defeat location, identity, anti-fraud or account-integrity controls.
Falsified evidence
Terms, clause 20.16
You must not alter screenshots, trading records, KYC records, invoices, payment records or communications; fabricate a support or payout claim; interfere with logs; or make a materially false statement to obtain a phase transition, an account restoration, a refund or a reward.
This one has no first-warning pathway. It goes to the honesty of everything else we rely on.
Platform-defect exploitation
Terms, clause 20.3
You must not exploit bugs, calculation errors, race conditions, order-processing defects, API weaknesses, data gaps, security flaws or configuration mistakes. You must not probe, reverse-engineer, overload or interfere with the platform or the rules engine.
The obligation runs both ways. If a defect on our side causes an unfair result against you, we cancel or reconstruct the affected trades and restore the account. We will never use a known defect selectively to create a breach.
