These Prohibited Trading Practices apply to all Leveraged accounts, programs, and account types, across both simulation and funded phases. Product-specific parameters (loss limits, payout eligibility, account rules) are defined on each program's rules page.
Understand where the line is:
Leveraged funds traders quickly and pays out on a short cycle. That model works only when trading is genuine, sustainable, and operated by the account holder alone. The practices below are prohibited because they exploit the trading environment, neutralize real market risk, or distort payout eligibility rather than express genuine speculation.
The examples on this page are illustrative, not exhaustive, and a single behavior may fall under more than one section. This page explains how we apply our standards. It does not limit our rights under the Terms and Conditions, which prevail in any conflict.
What is allowed:
Most trading is not affected by anything on this page. In particular:
Your own strategy, your own decisions. Manual discretionary trading in any style, session, or instrument we offer.
Risk and trade management tools. Tools that manage stops, targets, or position size are permitted, provided you remain the originator and operator of every trading decision and the tool does not create prohibited conduct.
Copying between your own accounts. Copy trading between Leveraged accounts registered to you is permitted, across any of our products.
Holding through news. Positions opened before a restricted news window may be held through the event.
Read more: Which trading strategies can I use?
What is prohibited
1. Execution abuse and technical exploitation
Trading designed to profit from how the platform prices, fills, or processes orders rather than from a market view. Prohibited:
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.
As a benchmark, positions are expected to remain open for at least two minutes.
2. News and event exploitation
Structuring exposure around scheduled events to capture volatility or news-related execution behavior rather than trade a genuine view. Prohibited:
opening or triggering new exposure inside the restricted high-impact news window, by market order or pending order;
straddling, bracketing, or volatility-sniping around a release;
layered, opposing, or conditional pending-order structures designed to capture event-driven movement.
You may not open or trigger new exposure within five minutes before or five minutes after a high-impact news event, whether by market order or by a pending order that fires inside that window. Holding a position opened before the window is not a breach.
3. Coordinated, mirrored, and cross-account trading
Using multiple accounts, persons, brokers, firms, or groups to coordinate or offset exposure. Prohibited:
hedged, reverse, or opposite positions across accounts;
copy trading or mirrored execution between different individuals or registrations, in any form;
coordinated groups, shared infrastructure, or networks whose combined positions neutralize real market risk while preserving payout upside.
This applies whether the activity occurs within Leveraged, across other prop firms, through retail brokers, through signal groups, through trade copiers, or any combination of these.
4. Third-party control and signal copying
Every account must be traded by the verified account holder, using their own judgment, strategy, and risk management. Prohibited:
signal copying and externally dictated entries or exits;
managed-account, pass-your-account, or rented-strategy arrangements;
running a strategy that is not your own, including purchased or third-party strategy EAs;
trade copiers or shared trading rooms where you are not the true originator of the strategy.
5. Program gaming and payout farming
Exploiting the structure of a program rather than participating in it as a genuine trading business. Prohibited:
rolling exposure across accounts, firms, or brokers to run a combined level of risk that would not reflect reasonable risk management on a single account, even where each account is individually compliant;
structuring trades primarily to satisfy payout-eligibility requirements rather than to trade genuinely, including risk-reward or win-rate patterns that are not consistent with sustainable trading;
account churning, or using accounts as disposable payout-extraction units;
sequencing all-or-nothing risk across accounts or providers to harvest payouts statistically.
Genuine speculation, including higher-risk styles, is not prohibited by itself. Structures designed to retain the payout while neutralizing or externalizing the losses are.
6. Trade-idea concentration and payout-metric manipulation
How you structure your trades is up to you. Splitting a trade idea across multiple positions, scaling, or re-entering is fine on its own. What is prohibited is using that structure to disguise concentrated risk or game a payout metric.
We may treat multiple positions, split entries, partial closes, rapid re-entries, or closely related exposures as part of the same underlying trade idea where they reflect one market thesis or one concentrated risk event, even where each individual position appears acceptable in isolation. Prohibited:
splitting or re-timing positions to disguise the size, risk, or concentration of one trade idea;
closing and reopening exposure to reset or obscure the risk of the same trade idea;
structuring partial closes, trade timing, or artificial profitable days to manipulate any consistency, profit-distribution, or payout-eligibility metric that applies to the account.
Where a program applies specific payout-eligibility metrics, such as a consistency requirement or minimum profitable days, those metrics are defined on that program's rules page.
7. Grid, martingale, and recovery trading
Adding exposure mechanically, at predetermined intervals or after losses, to recover losses rather than to trade a view. Prohibited:
grid trading and martingale or anti-martingale escalation;
increasing size or exposure after losses primarily to recover them;
repeated averaging into losing exposure without a genuine discretionary thesis.
Scaling into a position with controlled risk and a real thesis is fine.
8. Multiple-account and identity abuse
Operating accounts you are not entitled to, or concealing who is behind them. Prohibited:
duplicate or additional registrations used to farm payouts or exceed your entitlement;
trading under another person's identity, or letting another person trade under yours;
concealing identity, ownership, funding source, account control, device control, or strategy control.
9. System and integrity abuse
Exploiting the platform itself, or evading our controls. Prohibited:
exploiting system errors, bugs, display issues, delayed data, or abnormal pricing;
software or workflows that manipulate or misuse the platform;
circumventing geographical, technical, identity, ownership, or security restrictions.
More broadly, we may treat as prohibited any conduct that is uncommercial, manipulative, or inconsistent with how trading is actually performed in real markets.
If you cross the line
We respond based on severity, repetition, evidence, and context. Possible actions include a Risk review or request for information, verification, or an interview; removal of the 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; or any other action under the Terms and Conditions.
Not every case is handled the same way. Some conduct triggers review; clear cases may result in immediate action. We do not guarantee a warning or an interview, and a prior payout or the absence of prior contact does not mean your activity has been approved.