Prop Firm Rules

GENERAL RULES

Minimum Trading Days

• Evaluation: 5 days in each phase | To count as a trading day, the trade must remain open for at least 1 minute | No minimum trading days with add-on
• Funded: None

News Trading

• Evaluation Accounts: No Restriction
• Funded Accounts: No trading (opening or closing a market position, or executing a pending order, including stop loss and take profit orders) is allowed within 5 minutes before or after high-impact news. Profits made during this 10-minute window will be deducted (this is a soft breach).
• Profits from trades opened 48 Hours before high impact news and closed within the 10 minutes window won't be deducted.

See details: https://help.brightfunded.com/en/articles/9241694-can-i-trade-news

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is allowed only between accounts you personally own (BrightFunded, other prop firms, retail broker). copying trades between different owners’ accounts is strictly prohibited.

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

Expert Advisors (EAs)

• Allowed but must align with trading conditions and rules
• While EAs are allowed, not all third-party EAs are compatible with BrightFunded's platform environment.
  BrightFunded does not guarantee compatibility or performance of any external EA, and are not responsible for issues caused by non-compatible EAs

30 Days Inactivity Rule

• Must place at least one trade every 30 days or account will be deactivated, and if not reactivated via support within 6 months, it will be permanently closed.
• To count, the trade must remain open for at least 1 minute.

Overnight | Weekend Holding/Trading Crypto

• Allowed

Prohibited trading strategies and practices

• Hedging (between two or more different accounts, between Different Prop Firms, Across Different Trading Platforms, Hedging-Copy Trading), Exploiting Service Errors or Platform Delays, Using External or Delayed Data Feeds, Coordinated or Multi-Account Manipulation, Violating Platform or Provider Terms, Use of Automated Software, AI, or High-Speed Trading Tools, Risk-Abusive Trading; Overleveraging, Overexposure, One-Sided Bets, and Account Rolling, Trading During High-Impact News or Events, Abusive Strategy Types; Grid Trading, Arbitrage, Tick Scalping, High-Frequency Trading (HFT).
• See details: https://help.brightfunded.com/en/articles/9241704-which-strategies-are-prohibited-at-brightfunded

IPs/VPN/VPS Rule

• VPNs and different IPs are allowed for travel, but only the account owner may trade (no account sharing).

Max Position Size

• 50 lots per order for FX and indices
• 20 lots per order for XAUUSD

Independent Evaluation

• Each trading evaluation must be completed independently.

Server Request Limitation

• There is a limit of 100 orders you can enter at a time, 2000 modifications of TP/SL and orders per day.
• The maximum position limit per day is also 2000.

Risk Management

• Risking your entire daily drawdown on a single trade is not permitted.
• Engaging in prohibited trading practices will result in termination from our program and a refund of the fee paid from the account where this rule was broken.

Hedging

• Hedging across multiple accounts, even those belonging to the same trader, is strictly prohibited.

Trade Duration

• You cannot hold more than 50% of your trades for under one minute.

Risk Exposure Limitation

• E8 reserves the right to de-risk trading strategies by limiting risk exposure to no more than 1% per trade idea or time horizon if prohibited practices are detected.

E8 Trader Stage Account Exceeds Profit Threshold

• If your account's profits surpass the Dynamic Drawdown value, you can request a payout of all profits earned. However, you should leave a drawdown buffer in the account to continue trading. If you withdraw all your profits, it will result in the closure of the account.

E8 Pro

• 2% Daily Profit cap: In each day, the maximum profit you can make is 2%. If you make more, only 2% will be counted towards your profit target.
• Static Drawdown: The drawdown does not trail upward and remains fixed at your starting balance until your first payout is requested. Once the first payout is processed, the drawdown is locked at the initial balance level. For every payout request, 50% of the profits are paid out to you, while the remaining 50% stays in the account as a buffer to help maintain the drawdown threshold.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is not allowed between E8 evaluation accounts, as each evaluation must be traded independently; however, you may copy trades between your own personal account, E8 Trader accounts, or between a funded and evaluation account, provided the trades originate from your own accounts.

EAs (Expert Advisors)

• Allowed: You can also use any EA (Expert Advisor) as long as we don't see multiple users executing the same trades/strategy. We limit one strategy per user, so if we see multiple users utilize the same EA, it may lead to the termination of your account. So even though the use of third-party EA is allowed, we recommend that each user use their own programmed EA. 

News Trading

• Allowed in evaluation stages and E8 Signature Funded stage, not allowed in E8 One Funded stage 5 minutes before or after high-impact news.

E8 Signature:

• Overnight and weekend trading is not allowed.

Inactivity

• After 60 days of inactivity, the account is disabled and there is no entitlement to a refund.

Max allocation

• Exceeding the maximum capital allocation of $300,000 for 1 and 2 step combined is prohibited.

• Maximum of 3 Instant Program accounts allowed, capped at $30,000 total.

Reverse trading rule

• It is not allowed to create trades in opposite directions with a simultaneous duration equal or higher than 60 seconds. If you enter the market with a SELL, in order to trade in the opposite direction (BUY) you must close all your open trades in SELL.

Gambling rule

• The daily and/or per-trade profit limit is $10,000.

News Trading

• In Break accounts, traders cannot open new trades or increase their risk during high-impact news events or market openings.
• This restriction applies from 2 minutes before until 2 minutes after the event.
• During this time, traders cannot open new positions, add volume to existing positions, or risk more than 2% of the account’s initial balance.
• Breaking this rule may result in account suspension.

Bybit Platform Rules

• Adding extra funds to the assigned Bybit sub-account is not allowed. Any unauthorized deposit, transfer, or addition of funds to the sub-account may result in account suspension.
• Disconnecting, modifying, altering, or interfering with the assigned API connection is strictly prohibited. Any attempt to disconnect or modify the API connection may result in immediate account suspension.
• Spot trading on the Bybit sub-account is strictly prohibited. Any spot trading activity may result in account suspension.
• Only USDT trading pairs are allowed on Bybit accounts. Trades placed on USDC pairs will not be counted toward the account’s simulated profit or evaluation results.

Evaluation count

• Trading more than one breakout evaluation at the same time is prohibited.

Choice of strategy

• Traders are not allowed to use one strategy to pass an assessment and then switch to a different strategy in a funded account.

• Utilizing any third-party strategy, off-the-shelf strategy or one marketed to pass evaluation requirements is not allowed.

GENERAL RULES

News Trading

• Allowed during evaluation and funded with no restrictions

Expert Advisors (EAs)

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) but copying trades to a For Traders account is strictly prohibited.

Overnight | Weekend Holding & Trading

• Allowed

Inactivity rule

• 1- Step Fast & Fast Pro: Inactivity is set at 30 days; Instant Master: Inactivity is set at 7 days. Minimal trades, such as 0.01 lots executed solely to meet the 30-day activity requirement, do not qualify as meaningful trading activity.
• The inactivity rule days are counted from the moment a position is closed, not when it is opened.

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, Grid trading, Tick scalping, Group trading, Martingale, Hedging, Account rolling, Third-party account operation, Use of Automated Bots, Gambling, Copy Trading to Our 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/collections/9373507-what-is-forbidden-with-us

Instant Funding Minimum Trading Days

• 7 profitable trading days of at least 0.5% profit each day

1-Step Fast & 1-Step Fast Pro Minimum Trading Days

• 1-Step Fast Evaluation and Funded: 6 profitable trading days of at least 0.5% profit each day
• 1-Step Fast Pro Evaluation and Funded: 4 profitable trading days of at least 0.5% profit each day

General Rules

Minimum Trading Days

• Evaluation & Funded: 3 profitable trading days of at least 1%+ profit each day.

News Trading:

• Allowed With No Restrictions

EAs (Expert Advisors):

• EAs are not permitted

Copy Trading:

• Allowed between Wencrypto accounts and other personally owned Propfirm and broker accounts

Inactivity Rule:

• You must place at least one trade every 28 days to keep the account active.

Prohibited Strategies

• Platform Exploitation, including: High-Frequency Trading, Toxic order flow, Long/short arbitrage, Reverse arbitrage, Tick scalping, Server execution manipulation, EAs (Expert Advisors) are not permitted.
• Copying or mirroring another trader's account is not allowed. If detected, both accounts will be breached
• Hedging, Reverse or Group Hedging (Hard Breach)

Tokenized Stocks Now on Tradeify Crypto

• Tradeify Crypto now offers tokenized stocks directly within crypto accounts, including NVDA, TSLA, INTC, CRCL, MU, and SNDK.
• These can be traded 24/7 — after-hours, overnight, and weekends — with 2:1 leverage, powered by HyperLiquid for liquidity and execution.
• Traders can switch between crypto and stocks within the same funded account ecosystem.

Minimum Trading Days

• Instant Funding & Ape-X: None
• 1 and 2 Step, Evaluation: None | Funded: 3 Profitable Trading days of 0.5% profit each day.

News Trading

• Allowed with no restrictions
  Expert Advisors

• EAs and trading bots are allowed if you own or have exclusive rights to them.

Copy Trading

• You may use copy trading services or software(must own the software) to mirror trades to your Tradeify account.

Minimum Hold Time:

• To prevent micro-scalping and high-frequency strategies, all trades must be held for a minimum of 20 seconds. Violation may results to account termination

Hedging Policy:

• Hedging is not permitted; traders may not hold simultaneous long and short positions in the same instrument to offset risk.

Inactivity Policy

• Accounts that remain inactive for 30 consecutive days may be terminated; at least one trade must be placed within every 30-day period to maintain account activity.

VPN/VPS/IP Policy

• VPNs and VPS are allowed and can help with connection stability and execution speed. However, accounts must remain personal. Account sharing or group trading is strictly prohibited, and VPN/VPS may not be used to mask it. Multiple or overlapping IP logins may trigger additional verification, including proof of VPN/VPS setup or a verification interview.

News Trading:

• For BEM One (Funded) and 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) is exempt from this restriction, allowing trades opened at least 8 hours before a high-impact news event to remain open and be managed normally during the news window.
• Cryptocurrency pairs are not subject to any news trading restrictions.
• News trading is allowed in the BEM One Only program 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.

Drawdown Adjustment Rule (BEM - One)

• Before requesting a reward, you must leave a buffer zone in your account so it stays above your trailing drawdown level after the reward is processed. This buffer helps protect your account from being closed due to drawdown rules

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 accounts only.

Weekend Holding

• Weekend holding is allowed during evaluation, however 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 programs.

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

Minimum Trading Days

• IF Micro: None
• One-Phase - Evaluation & Funded: 7 days

News Trading

• News trading is allowed by default. However, news straddling or any strategy designed to exploit unfair advantage around news events is prohibited.

Expert Advisor

• EAs are allowed. However, the use of public third-party Expert Advisors is restricted.

Copy Trading

• Copy trading is allowed between your own accounts (prop firm or retail). Copying from accounts not owned by you, including shared signals or account management services, is strictly prohibited.

Inactivity Period

• Accounts with no trading activity for 60 consecutive days are automatically closed.

Risk Per Trade Idea

• Maximum risk per trade idea is 1% of starting balance (IF Micro), 2% ($50K and below on One-Phase), or 1.5% ($100K and above on One-Phase). A trade idea includes all positions on the same instrument in the same direction — reopening within 10 minutes counts as the same idea. Exceeding this limit results in a hard breach.

Minimum Hold Time Rule

• Trades must be held for more than 60 seconds. Excessive trades per hour, even if held longer than 60 seconds, may also be flagged as HFT. Only profitable trades under 60 seconds trigger violations — losses within 60 seconds are not penalized.
• Violations:
  • 1st & 2nd instance: Warning + deduction of net profits from flagged trades
  • 3rd instance: Account breach

Prohibited Strategies

• Martingale
• Overleveraging
• One-sided bets
• Grid trading
• Improper Day Padding
• High-frequency trading (trades under 60s or excessive volume)
• Copy trading between unrelated accounts
• Usage of public third-party expert advisors
• Reverse trading and group hedging
• Group copying/Account management
• Account churning (Rolling)
• Exploiting system glitches
• Exploiting inefficiencies of trading platforms

See details: https://instantfunding.com/trading-rules/